RE: Bad Flight?
I had a bad return flight, both ways! 🙂
I was going to Stansted from Oslo Torp with Ryanair in early spring 1999. Torp is a tiny airprort about 2,5hrs drive south of Oslo.
Some of the worst snowfall in years was coming down, and also very late in the year for snow anyway (March).
Although im interested in planes, im not a spotter and i dont know as much as most of you guys, and back then i knew even less.
When we finally approaced Torp, it turns out the aircraft could not land bechause of the snow, and had been redirected to Oslo Gardermoen, 40 minutes NORTH of Oslo. So we just had to go back.
After a bus ride on icy roads with the movie Speed (!) on the telly, we finally got to the Airport.
When we boarded the aircraft i was met by the most unpleasent people i have ever come across in the service profession. They were obviously tired and well cheesed off, but hey so where we!
The plane was not cleaned either and was very dirty.
Finally we get moving, and when we got to the de-icing area, the captain had not pressurised the cabin, so the de-icing fluid started to flow thru the door. I did now know why that happened at the time and got very very nervous. It didnt help that there had been talk in the newspapers about that stuff being toxic and dangerous to the soil at the airport.
But we got to London in one piece.
And then, the return flight. This was four days later, and even though there still was snow chaos. This was the biggest snowfall in years, and it sure felt that way coming into Torp. We were thrown around and i could hardly see anything outside the aircraft.
We still touched down, but it seemed like the pilot did not use the brakes bechause we kept going and going and going. At this time i was sure we would end up in the woods at the end of the short runway at Torp, and pretty sweaty. It was extremely bumpy and the plane also swung from side to side. It sounded like the engines revved up heavily, did he reverse them perhaps?
But we stopped, and it actually turned out we had quite a lot of runway left.
That’s the most scary flight i’ve ever been on 🙂
Im flying today btw, BA 7903 from MAN to OSL. 🙂
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