Aircraft hauntings ...
Locutus
Just wondering if any pilots in this group, have experienced any kind
of 'ghostly' or 'weird' type events...
There was a book called 'Ghost of the Air' by Martin Caidin. It was a
well written book, in which he relates stories he researched from
hundreds of interviews with 'reputable' people.
Lots of odd/unexplainable type things going on in the skies ...
phantom airports appearing out of nowhere, haunted WW-II airport
grounds, etc...
Kaitlin
Locutus <fir...@injersey.com> wrote:
Well.. I am not sure. I once heard that someone had an experience with
the ghost of his deceased partner. They were both pilots and had small
commuter planes. They were once flying in the same craft, when they
crashed into the side of a mountain. The one flying didn't survive.
His partner was crushed. But he kept flying because he knew it was
what his friend would have wanted. Once, the man was flying when he
had a heartattack. Ass the tale goes, the man's aircraft landed safely
at the closest airport. People watching the landing got suspcioius
when no one climbed from the plane. When they went to look, they found
the man. Later, the mn said it was his deceases friend who helped him
through. Has anyone else heard this?
Rhubarb
> Just wondering if any pilots in this group, have experienced any kind
> of 'ghostly' or 'weird' type events...
>
> There was a book called 'Ghost of the Air' by Martin Caidin. It was a
> well written book, in which he relates stories he researched from
> hundreds of interviews with 'reputable' people.
>
> Lots of odd/unexplainable type things going on in the skies ...
> phantom airports appearing out of nowhere, haunted WW-II airport
> grounds, etc...
Not a ghost, but my father was a search and rescue pilot in the Navy and
said he once saw a gremlin sitting on the wing.
Leah
"Help me Obiwan Kenobi. You're my only hope!"
DLE
Does anybody remember a book and a movie about an L-1011 that crashed in
the Florida Everglades? The airline that owned it (Delta, I think) used
parts from the crashed plane on other planes in it's fleet and the planes
where the parts ended up began having ghostly occurences.
--
MadHatter:"If that's what you believe you have another
think coming. Want to take it now?"
Alice:"Take what?"
MadHatter:"A THINK! You have one coming you know."
Locutus <fir...@injersey.com> wrote in article
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Josephine Poh
Rhubarb (rhu...@mindspring.com) wrote:
: Not a ghost, but my father was a search and rescue pilot in the Navy and
: said he once saw a gremlin sitting on the wing.
Now THAT'S interesting!!! The cute one, or the evil one???
jo
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Mike/Damon or Peni R. Griffin
Strictly an urban legend with personal embellishments:
Once a pilot who flew for a major airline observed evidence that there
was something wrong with the plane he was about to take off in. He
told his supervisor, who told him: "It's fine, it's fine, we're
behind schedule, take off." The pilot, on his way to obey, ran into
his daughter, a stewardess with the same company, and confided in her
that he wasn't easy in his mind about it, but of course the company
wouldn't send him up if everything weren't all right.
You guessed it, the plane crashed and the pilot died -- *but* the
company claimed pilot error and refused the family its' death
benefits. The daughter protested and repeated what her father had
told her about the supervisor blowing off his observation that there
was something wrong with the plane. The company claimed no such
conversation had ever taken place, called her a hysterical female,
fired her, and told anyone who called for references that she was a
troublemaker.
Eventually she found a new job with a rinky-dink airline. One day, as
she was getting the galley ready, she heard her father's voice behind
her saying clearly: "Don't let them take off till they've checked the
starboard engine." She turned around, just in time to see the
reflection of her father's face fading from the dark glass door of the
microwave. She went at once to the pilot, then to the mechanic, then
to the supervisor, insisting that if they didn't check the starboard
engine she would go announce to the waiting passengers that the plane
wasn't fit to fly. Recalling the warning about her being an
hysterical troublemaker, the supervisor had the mechanic check the
starboard engine so as to shut her up. The mechanic went up a skeptic
and came down a believer: the engine had developed a glitch that had
been overlooked during its last overhaul, and could easily have given
out in mid-flight.
As I said, this was a rinky-dink airline. They had old planes, and
malfunctions of greater or lesser seriousness were common. Their
safety record was not wonderful and company morale was low. It soon
became evident, however, that no plane this stewardess took off in was
going to suffer any accidents. If even the slightest thing was wrong,
her father would tell her. Soon the pilots started competing to have
her on their flights. The airline's safety record improved
dramatically. The CEO encouraged her to hold seances and contact her
father's ghost to find out about possible malfunctions in other
company planes.
When the local newspaper did a story about them as a local business
success story, several people referred to the stewardess as their
"lucky charm," and when the reporters spoke to her, she told them the
whole story, including the name of the airline that had fired her and
why. This story was picked up by the news services, and proved highly
embarrassing to the old airline, who threatened her with a libel suit.
She told them to come on and try it, knowing that the last thing they
wanted was publicity on this.
Eventually, she was invited to appear on a "reality" show, ala
*Sightings.* All this time, her mother had been getting along on her
own income, trying to send the younger kids to college, and the
stewardess herself (although by now earning as much as RinkyDink
Airlines could possibly pay her) had suffered a retrenchment in
lifestyle. Instead of replying immediately, she called up her old
supervisor and read off the invitation to him. He was silent for a
long minute, then said: "What will it take?"
"Admit mechanical failure and give Mom her full death benefits," said
the stewardess.
"How about your old job back?"
"In your dreams," said the stewardess, and hung up.
Her mother got a lovely big check by overnight mail, and she never did
go on TV, but she's working for a much better airline these days.
This is Peni.
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DLE
One of the stories I remember from this was about a galley oven with a
glass face that was put in another plane. The flight attendants began
seeing a face show up and disappear at various times as a reflection in the
glass of the oven. Someone recognized the face as a member of the flight
crew from the downed plane.
--
MadHatter:"If that's what you believe you have another
think coming. Want to take it now?"
Alice:"Take what?"
MadHatter:"A THINK! You have one coming you know."
DLE <the...@swbell.net> wrote in article
<01bc20b8$184e7ec0$c502...@thegang.swbell.net>...
> Does anybody remember a book and a movie about an L-1011 that crashed in
> the Florida Everglades? The airline that owned it (Delta, I think) used
> parts from the crashed plane on other planes in it's fleet and the planes
> where the parts ended up began having ghostly occurences.
> --
>
Allison Cecil
In article <5edoiv$o...@news.injersey.com>, fir...@injersey.com says...
>
>Just wondering if any pilots in this group, have experienced any kind
>of 'ghostly' or 'weird' type events...
>
>There was a book called 'Ghost of the Air' by Martin Caidin. It was a
>well written book, in which he relates stories he researched from
>hundreds of interviews with 'reputable' people.
>
>Lots of odd/unexplainable type things going on in the skies ...
>phantom airports appearing out of nowhere, haunted WW-II airport
>grounds, etc...
>
>
flying through dense fog, and lost communications with air traffic
control. He said that air traffic control got all static and he couldn't
hear and knew he was in danger. He said that he began to hear very clear
direct communications to him from someone on the radio and assumed it was
air traffic control, and the voice guided him down to a safe landing.
When he landed, he thanked the people in air traffic for guiding him down,
and they said that they had lost him (on radar and voice) for close to 20
minutes and they didn't guide him down.