http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:53:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153752 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:27:00 +0000 Squudge 153752@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ascension island has the atlantic at the end of the runway with a bit of a drop. The first time I was on Timmy Tristar taking off the pilot banked gleefully pointing out the sharks circling right at the end of the runway. Not that they got much trade I'm sure. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153735 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:47:21 +0000 Sinnick 153735@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or landing at Mérida, Venezuela at &gt;5000 ft. The airfield is next to the city centre, at a significant upward incline (for an airfield), with a large mountain at the end of the runway. The landing speed is around 250 mph, and you know the pilot doesn't have much choice about a 2nd attempt. You can look in the shop windows as you land, to take you mind off things, or watch the chickens in the overhead lockers.</p> <p>But, for me, the scariest landing was at Roma en route to Africa. The stewardess oddly asked that all windows be closed while waiting for a fuel top up. So I peeked. There were some 1000 litres of fuel spilled under the plane, with many fire appliances spreading foam. Shouldn't have peeked, really. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153693 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:31:11 +0000 beau-jolly 153693@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quite right Sinnick, Jose Spanish doesn't know the half of it. Try coming down over the mountain into Cienfeugos, South Cuba. You hit the runway sideways with nothing on the clock but the maker's name. On take-off the stewardess gives you a sweet and a plastic cup of water to distract you from looking at the rusty bolts holding your chair onto the uncarpeted floor. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153637 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:40:45 +0000 Tess Goes 153637@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is Patagonia in the EU yet ?<br /> Sounds like a great place to send our asylum seekers to ! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153633 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:31:46 +0000 Squudge 153633@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>wheee... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153625 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:46:30 +0000 Sinnick 153625@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's for vegetarians.</p> <p>Try flying across Patagonia - the stewardesses have rally-style seatbelts tightened very firmly, and give you a cold stare if you even think of suggesting coffee. 2 hours of 1000 ft drops and rapid ascents, plane twisting unpredictably left &amp; right, spoilt only by the wafts of projectile vomiting. Beautiful. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53297#post-153558 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:01:47 +0000 button 153558@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>or something <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20734048" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20734048</a> </p>