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Old 10-13-2006   #1 (permalink)
Andiline
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Travelling experiences.... ;)

Today I added a new episode to my flight experiences. My flight from Switzerland back home was on time which doesn't happen often. We boarded and among the last people to board there were two guys with soccer scarfs and t-shirts. You heard them in the back of the plane already while they were just coming in. They asked everybody for the tickets and they were having lots of fun. On the one hand side they were funny, on the other they weren't as they were way too loud. We all sat down, doors closed and then the captain comes to them (one of them was sitting 2 or 3 rows behind me) and told them that they had the choice to either be quiet or leave the plane. They chose to be quiet. So the captain just said 'okay, but beer only afterwards in Cologne, okay?' Then we were standing there, getting ready for take off but nothing happened. The longer we stood the quieter the 2 became. After about half an hour I hear 'Cabin crew, doors in park.' Flying frequently I knew that this was the wrong command for take off (should have been 'doors in flight'). After another 10 minutes a police officer together with 3 security guys enter the plane and they come to get those two guys out....

After they left one of the passengers (I think I know him by sight) speaks up and tells the cabin crew that he thinks this was not okay as those two were quiet after the pilot talked to them. The flight attendant was slightly pissed off and told him that she rather get them out than having an unexpected landing in between because of drunk persons (you never know how drunk people behave). The really rude part was that she said that she didn't care whether he liked it or not.

Later the captain told via micro that one of guys was supposed to have said that they wanted to make chaos while we were in the air... I didn't hear anything like that but they were speaking swiss-german which I understand only to 75 %. Not sure whether they did the right thing to drag them out. But probably better safe than sorry....

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