Hi Patrice,
I hope you had a pleasant an uneventful trip across the Pacific. Sorry I
didn't get back to you sooner however we were getting ready to go out of
town ourselves to Disneyland. We had a fantastic time, the weather was great
and the crowds were not too bad. We had a bit of a stressful flight back
from LA though, The plane was about half an hour into it's flight from LA to
Bellingham when there was a horrendous bang that seemed to emanate from
right under and beside where Gerry was sitting, this was followed by a bad
vibration and the plane immediately started descending. Nobody said anything
for a few minutes but there was many questioning and apprehensive looks
being shot about between passengers!. The lights in the plane were going on
and off and we were alternately climbing and descending plane. Finally the
pilot came on to say that we had experienced some kind of malfunction , they
had shut the right engine down and we were returning to LAX.
Nobody really knew the scope of the malfunction and people were very upset,
Maureen even got out a notepad and started writing a will!. The pilot
obviously had his work cut out for him as he was going between full throttle
and fully backing off to maintain proper altitude on his approach. We
finally landed (on all wheels fortunately). I didn't know what to expect and
had assumed the crash position just in case the landing gear hadn't engaged
properly and we were doing a belly landing!. Once we stopped and it was
apparent that we had survived there was a tremendous applause and great
sighs of relief.
Emergency vehicles with lights flashing surrounded the plane on the runway
but soon retreated when there were no fires or other problems present. We
wound up waiting for 6 hours for another plane to come from Bellingham to
pick us up so we didn't arrive at our door until 6:30 am. but again thankful
to be arriving unscathed.
I'd like to tell you more but I need to get going on some other things . I
will tell you more and pass along some pictures when I get a chance.
Take care, Al
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/07/2426442/allegiant-flight-from-la-to-bellingham.html
hi Patt,
have I missed you? call me.u free fro dinner Saturday night? jim Crowe
Pat,
Jim wrote today and asked if you were in HK yet. Hoping to ride with George tomorrow weather permitting.
Ray
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