Has anyone else thought that maybe volcanoes are changing our aircraft industry? Look the EU, hundreds of airports were shut on Apr and May. So many people were stuck in the airport and even slept in there for some days. I used to take flight because I thought it saves time and let me feel some kind of comfortable (every year I need to fly more than 300 hours …)
This story happened on last month. It is a virgin flight in late night, crowd with passengers and the seat space is really small. After about 7 hours when the flight was planning to land, there were something happened. When I was watching 2012, what a crazy movie, at that moment there were some noise from the ventral (the plane`s belly) and the plane continue its landing process, many people didn’t know what happened but I felt there maybe something wrong. As expected, when the plane was only 20 or 30 meter away from the ground, the captain pull up the plane quickly and let announce there were some problems and they were busy to find the problems. At that time, everyone know it was a bad news and some people felt sick ,and a child before my seat was crying . Every picture and sound in this sense let me feel that maybe it is a movie or a horrible dream. But I quickly wake up because there is a smelt a sort of acid surround me. Obviously, the smell is from the airsickness bags while many people were using it. After 10 mints, the captain told us they fixed the problem and now we could land soon.
Will you feel afraid when you in this case? I think many people in this plane were not feeling terrible or feel afraid in the first landing. We are not afraid just because we know nothing. But in the second time, the cabin is really quiet except a baby was crying. When the plane began to land, I fasten the seat belt quickly, looking down to the floor and standing with my hands clasped to my chest, while many people just close their eyes. It`s hard to say what I was thinking at that time but I knew I am always lucky. Just ten seconds, the plane landed on the ground with a little bit trembles and started to taxi. Meanwhile, I heard people started to talk again, some of them were cheering and most of them looks very exciting.
After I switched on my cell phone in the luggage claim area, I got three voice mails from my brother, which was that there was a volcano just erupted and the volcanic ash cloud moving closer to England and Europe. They had to divert all flights inbound to their airport and others so his flight got to do a U Turn in the clouds back to Vancouver. Who was the luckiest? I arrived on time with a moment of terrible, he was stuck at the airport and had to wait for another 2 days delay.
