If they announce your flight will be delayed for eight hours for mechanical reasons you could hope someone like Keith Lomax is on board.
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Should have earned several air miles for future holidays.
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They were making a big thing of this a week ago but it seems a very minor thing the media had to inflate
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Re: The Right Place at The Right Time.
Been there,done that and got no mention in t'news at the time....(well I woz in CDG at the time!)
A little more exposure for our profession don't hurt now and again.
(btw read the story again... eng weren't 'Keith Lomax')
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A little more exposure for our profession don't hurt now and again.
(btw read the story again... eng weren't 'Keith Lomax')
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No.. the engineer remained anonymous (I bet he's chuffed about that too)
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Oops!
You are right. Keith Lomax was a passenger on the flight and not the engineer. Seems like the older I get, the slower I need to read to get the details right.
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