Something You Don't Want to Hear on an Airplane

Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 22:26 CEST

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

When attempting to go home from a short holiday I had the "luck" of a broken plane. After some 15 minutes they provided us with a "reserve kist" (Dutch for "spare box") that would take us back to Norway. 20 meter into the taxiing procedure we suddenly stopped and were towed back to our parking spot. The captain came on the intercom and said "We just had a computer crash, we'll reboot it in somewhat the same way you reboot your Windows XP machine at home." - Definitly not good :) (I did make it home alive though).

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Boyan

Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 20:33 UTC

As a common friend of us would say "The mighty power of Thorr helped you!".

David Zülke

Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 21:23 UTC

Holy smokes... what Airline was that? Creepy.

Jad

Wednesday, October 18th 2006, 11:51 UTC

So it crash just like Windows and rebooted just like windows.

Damien Seguy

Wednesday, October 18th 2006, 14:19 UTC

Why on earth did you posted that today? I'm flying tonight! :(

Glad you made it.

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