Showing posts with label flight scare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flight scare. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Flight 007: Hotlanta

I had a short night of sleep before my meeting in downtown Atlanta. As you can see from the picture, there is still a lot of damage to be fixed from the tornado that ran through downtown Atlanta last week. All of those white spaces on the building are places where the windows broke from the pressure. I can't imagine how much glass was on the sidewalks in the aftermath, I'm glad it happened at night! After my meeting I headed straight back to Atlanta airport to hop another flight to Tulsa by way of Houston. Atlanta airport is huge -- I would definitely give yourself enough time to get through security, hop on the tram, and then walk the distance to your gate.

I had a little bit of a flight scare for the first time ever. As we began our descent into Houston, the panel next to me started vibrating like crazy. Everybody around me looked over, including the flight attendant who promptly headed toward the cockpit without saying a word. I gotta say that I was pretty zen about the whole thing though. I figured there was nothing I could do so I just tried to ignore it, haha. The guy next to me thought it might have been an engine thing because our row was aligned with the engine on the left wing but he asked the flight attendant as we left and he said it was an A/C pack issue, whatever that means. Anyway, I'm happy to say that I made it to Houston in one piece.