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Saturday, September 05, 2015

blessings in disguise

this is what you called blessings in disguise.  you left on friday mid morning, eager to return home since it's friday.  however, something is not always in your control.  you're boarded, the plane pushed off, move to the runway and already in the acceleration towards take off.
and suddenly, the captain announced a pull back due to malfunction of one of the backup computer in the cockpit.
plane defect happened sometimes but not in the motion of almost take off and pull back as you described.  it's was quite a moment.  but on the positive note, the airline take the flight safety to the fullest.
you're calm, you know there's nothing else you could do except waiting for further notice and further action. but the italians were impatience and almost create a havoc in-flight until the purser has to ask the technician who came up to the aircraft for diagnostic to make announcement of the situation in italian (hence this photo).
to cut the story short, the aircraft have to be reset by shutting down and rebooting to hope the backup system that died off will work again.  so 30 min gone and concluded the hope is now bubbles.  next action is to wait for the bus to fetch all the passengers back to the terminal, another 30 min wait.
finally you're into the bus and you got 3 messages that informing you're rebooked to the next flight is about to leave in 30 min. so as soon as you arrived the terminal, you ran to the check-in counter to get a new boarding pass and go through the security and back to the gate.  all sweat and just made it as last passenger to board.  just as you thought it will take off on time, the announcement came that due to bad weather in lowland, the fight will be delayed for one hour and subject to the further take off slot.
anyway, in short it's not the right day to travel but you're quite calm and peaceful. no sign of impatience and despite missing a few con-calls that supposed to take place that friday afternoon you just have to cope with the extended traveling.  so what normally takes just over an hour became a six hours journey and that made your friday.

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