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Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 18:37
by Garry Russell
Made a 'crash landing' in Devon covered in ash after travelling SE instead of NE.

Was the volcanic ash to blame??? *-) :dunno:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8644640.stm

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 19:32
by DaveB
:-O

I think it belonged to the Irish Cowboy featured elsewhere in this forum :lol:

ATB

DaveB B)smk

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 20:43
by Garry Russell
:lol: :lol:

I hear it was operating the new Ryanair postal contract "You tell us where you want to send it and we'll let you know where we took it"
8)

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 20:58
by DaveB
:lol: :lol: :lol:

LMAO :lol:

That's a cracker Mr R :lol:

ATB

DaveB B)smk

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 26 Apr 2010, 23:36
by Tomliner
There's only one possible response to this.....COO COO
OK I'm off now ;) EricT

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 00:35
by steelsporran
Aaw! :'( I thought I was going to read about a successor to "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 10:22
by Filonian
Garry Russell wrote::lol: :lol:

I hear it was operating the new Ryanair postal contract "You tell us where you want to send it and we'll let you know where we took it"
8)

Spot on Garry :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :agree:


Graham

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 10:45
by Filonian
I wonder.....


The following note was delivered to British Airways head office yesterday:



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Translation:
"Put 30 million euro in the wastebasket of the Icelandic embassy tonight or we will turn the volcano back on again…. Do not call the police!"




Graham

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 10:59
by 511Flyer
Come on now chaps. It's not right to be getting a few cheep laffs from this poor wee birds predicament.

We should be thinking, what can we do to help him to get back to his loft? Or is that just Pie in the Sky?

D.

Re: Forced landing 300 miles off course

Posted: 27 Apr 2010, 12:11
by Garry Russell
Perhaps if there's a number around his neck we could ring it *-)