You would be slightly pissed off if on this flight...

"Sorry, can't be arsed."

 

"Shan't."

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are just starting out desc... **** ME! WOW!
****! SHIT!... Well, we look like we're going to have to return to
Cardiff...".

 

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From...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html

 

Not as pissed off as my sister-in-law was when her KLM flight to Jakarta
turned back to Amsterdam because the plane lost an engine 8 hours into
the flight

I thought that "nearest reasonable airport" e.g. Dubai is where they
should have headed

 

So what would he have done if the south of england / wales had also
suddenly fogged up then ?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, geoff

Landed.

And sorted the inevitable paperwork out later.

 

Consider the implications.
Return home - put passengers on next flight, fit spare engine in own
workshop, aircraft probably available for its next sheduled duty.
Divert to Dubai - find an aircraft to rescue stranded passengers, find
a freight aircraft to deliver spare engine to Dubai, pay local workshop,
aircraft out of service for several days.

 

He'd still be flying round looking for a gap in the fog...

 

<googles>

Crikey.

 

As you say. That one was indeed in a class of its own.

 

Never believe a pilot who says he thinks he can make it OK, if you know
his car is at the airport he is trying to land at.