Mandarin goes pear shaped

[routermaniac]

Mandarin goes pear shaped .

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"

[Cliff Rogers]

Yikes!!! Try using the escape slide to get out of that baby!!!! :eek:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

That was the flight from New Zealand. The pilot neglected to allow for the change in hemispheres when crossing the equator...

[zenwood]

The details are at the link, from which:

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

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

[routermaniac]

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]

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...

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Routermaniac,

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

Cheers!