Jakarta –
Delay always an annoying thing to do airplane passengers. On this flight, delays felt like hellish torture.
Reporting from New York Post on Saturday (23/9), a passenger named Vince Conley told of his experience flying together American Airlines. He flew from Little Rock, Arkansas to Dallas, USA.
Entering a domestic flight, the route should only take 90 minutes. But what makes passengers suffer for 9 hours?
Flight 5085 is scheduled to fly at 16.30 local time. The plane flew without any problems.
About an hour and a half after the plane took off, the plane had not yet landed. Conley tried to ask the cabin crew.
It turned out the plane had been diverted to a small airport in Wichita Falls, Texas. There would be a big storm passing by, they would not be allowed to continue their journey.
The plane landed at 18.45 local time, they were asked to stay on the plane because the storm was too big and accompanied by lightning. Patiently, they spent two hours on the plane.
Luckily, none of the passengers on the flight were annoying. 90 passengers try to become a unified team.
“There was one family that had children aged 2 years and 3.5 years. The children behaved very well, everyone praised the parents,” said Conley.
The two hour wait turned into 5 hours. The situation is getting more difficult, passengers are starting to feel tormented. However, the passengers on the plane again tried to be positive while waiting.
Finally, the plane was allowed to take off. Unfortunately, that feeling of happiness was dashed again. Around 9 p.m., the lights on the runway went out due to a storm.
All passengers and cabin crew were forced to leave the airport. Then came the ‘miracle’.
“When I entered the terminal, one of the first people to get off bought snacks from a vending machine, about half the contents of the machine. He then distributed the chips and food to everyone,” he said.
Conley then went to another automatic machine to buy a drink. But again a generous passenger bought them for everyone.
Half an hour passed, a female passenger from the flight stood up and was busy pacing. Talking on the phone, the woman was just busy saying ‘Yes, yes!’.
At that moment, they all saw a Papa Johns delivery driver outside the airport’s glass doors carrying 20 packs of pizza. Apparently this woman treated all passengers, crew and airport staff.
The entire airport was moved, this woman’s kindness warmed what had been a long day. They were only able to fly at midnight and arrived in Dallas at 01.30 in the morning.
“I arrived home around 2.30 am. It was a very long day, but full of goodness,” he concluded.
Watch the video “18 hours delay, this man is the only passenger on an American Airlines plane”
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2023-09-23 05:20:00
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