The Ghost Pilot

[PPI Tim]

From the book 666 absolutely true stories.....
This is a story that Captain Sully would be proud of.

A commercial airplane pilot with 30 years experience was flying a 747 from Chicago to Los Angeles. One of the flight attendant on board was his daughter. During the course of the flight, the plane suffered one problem after another.
The pilot did everything he could to compensate for the mechanical failures. His daughter, in the meantime, tried to keep the passagers calm. Finally, she had a spare moment and slipped into the cockpit. "Daddy, tell me what's going to happen," she said.
"It's serious," her father answered. "We can't get to any airport. I'll have to make an emergency landing in one of those fields down there."
"We're all going to die, aren't we," the daughter said.
Her father looked her straight in the eye. "I promise I will never let anything bad happen to you." His daughter went back and prepared her passengers for the landing.
As they descended, the pilot could barely keep control of the aircraft. Then the landing gear failed. The 747 hit the ground hard. One of the wings broke off and the plane swung around wildly before it came to rest.
Among the passengers there were a few lacerations, plenty of bruises and one or two broken bones. But everyone was alive. It was a different story in the pilot's cockpit. In the impact the pilot's neck had been broken. He was dead. The daughter was grief-stricken. But she was also proud of her father for having saved the lives of more than 200 people.
Several years later, the daughter was preparing a plane for takeoff. As she stepped into the galley she saw her father's ghost.
"Get off this plane. There's trouble with the engines. If the ground crew doesn't correct the problem, this plane will crash."
Frightened, the woman hurried off the plane, found the foreman of the mechanics and convinced him to inspect the engines one last time. The foreman found a fault in one of the engines that would have caused the plane to explode on takeoff.
The young woman's father had kept his promise: He had saved her life again.

[PPI Tracy]

Wow.  99% of the time, you can't even get a ghost to light up a K-II meter, or knock on a wall, yet her father's ghost almost recited the Gettysburg Address.  Pretty talented ghost.   

[PPI Tim]

I was starting to wonder if it wasn't one of the "AIRPORT" movies.

[PPI Tracy]

I was starting to wonder if it wasn't one of the "AIRPORT" movies.

Surely, you jest....

No, I do not...and don't call me Shirley.   

[SCP_Dave]

Oh my GOD...I HATE FLYING!!!!!

[PPI Tracy]

Oh my GOD...I HATE FLYING!!!!!

I know Dave.  The more I think about next Friday the more nervous I am getting. I'm headed to Colorado for 6 days. In my twenties, I was on a plane more than I was on the ground. I have flown countless times between California and Japan.  I have been to London, Scotland.  Flown quite a few times back and forth from California to Hawaii as well as from Oahu to the other islands on business.  I think it is just the fact that I haven't flown since July 2001 is the issue.  That and taking off from John Wayne Airport feels like you are doing a wheelie and simultaniously turning off the engines.  I love the song, "Airplane" by the Indigo Girls:

Im up on the airplane
Nearer my God to thee
I start making a deal
Inspired by gravity
If I was bad I won't do it again
Cuz I can good and pure and nice,
But I rather take a pillow down here than a thrown up there
Way above thirty thousand feet.......

I never should have read my horoscope
or a fortune on a bubblegum strip
saying "what you think won't happen will"
great thing to read before a trip......


ya wanna hurt me now, don't ya Dave....

[PPI Tim]

Would you like me to find another urban legend that is about airplanes?

[PPI Jason]

I was starting to wonder if it wasn't one of the "AIRPORT" movies.

Surely, you jest....

No, I do not...and don't call me Shirley.   

Roger, roger. What's your vector, Victor?

[Brian Johnson]

"I picked a hell of a day to quit smoking".