The Anatomy of a 24 Hour Delay
March 23 2007
Salon’s Ask the Pilot column has a nice piece about what happens when your flight is twice diverted to other airports, causing a 24 hour delay (which is what happened to Patrick Smith, the writer of the column). The most interesting tidbit: the pilot and co-pilot flipped a coin over who would make the unhappy announcement that the plane would be diverting a second time.
