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Re: Another Airbus down ....

Walt Davidson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:49:08 +0100, "Brian Reay"
<see@website.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> As I recall, the in-flight meal was a sort of Cornish pasty*. It wasn't as
>> good as the Pakistan Army rations (also a "pasty" but much nicer) we
had in
>> the desert.
>
> The worst in-flight meal I have ever experienced was on board a Garuda
> Indonesia flight from Singapore to Amsterdam in 1993.  It was totally
> inedible and none of us could identify what it was!  I lived on
> digestive biscuits and bottled Coca Cola for the entire 20 hour
> journey.  :-(  The only thing that made the trip tolerable (just) was
> that we were travelling in Business Class.  Heaven knows what Tourist
> Class was like.
>
> The aircraft was an ancient EI- registered Tri-Star wide-bodied jet
> ... you could actually see parts of the old Aer Lingus paintwork where
> the Garuda livery was flaking off!  We stopped for an hour at Abu
> Dhabi, where they had to use a sledge-hammer to close the cargo door
> before we were able to continue our journey.  A large crate of live
> parrots was offloaded at East Berlin Airport at a final stop on the
> way to Amsterdam!
>
> Garuda Indonesia are now prohibited from flying anywhere within the EU
> because of their poor maintenance standards.
>
> 73 de Wlat
>

At least you were flying on what was a decent aircraft to begin with -
if they'd had to force the cargo door shut on a DC-10, you'd be dead.

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