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routermaniac
29th July 2005, 12:11 AM
Mandarin goes pear shaped :D .

Mr Smith booking his flight on the phone to the travel agent... " Never heard of Mandarin airlines, are they any good?"

Travel agent "They are excellent, there have been some small parking issues but nothing of concern"



http://www.yobbo.co.nz/photogallery/funny%20photos/mda.jpg

Cliff Rogers
29th July 2005, 12:28 AM
Yikes!!! Try using the escape slide to get out of that baby!!!! :eek:

Skew ChiDAMN!!
29th July 2005, 01:40 AM
That was the flight from New Zealand. The pilot neglected to allow for the change in hemispheres when crossing the equator...

zenwood
29th July 2005, 01:48 AM
The details are at the link, from which:


Remarkably, there were only three fatalities among of the <nobr>300 passengers</nobr> and <nobr>15 crew</nobr> members aboard the flight.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/mandarin.asp

routermaniac
29th July 2005, 09:30 AM
amazing isn't it Zen, you would have thought given the look of it that it would have been a much greater disaster. Personally I'm sticking with QANTAS! :)

doug the slug
2nd August 2005, 08:38 PM
somehow routermaniac it seems appropriate with your signature on the forum tha this was posted by you

you can never have enough planes.....thats when they get treated like this...http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif

Auld Bassoon
2nd August 2005, 09:28 PM
Hi Routermaniac,

Now how would you or I feel if we were in that other similarly liveried 'plane, passing by eh?

Cheers!