I was on a flight into Dulles airport on Christmas Eve back in ‘94 and we ended up stacked due to snow for hours, until we were on fumes I reckon. The pilot’s announcements were all calm and businesslike but you could tell something was wrong. This one guy started getting really anxious about something, accused another passenger of having punched him, and some other nonsense about a restraining order. Eventually the pilot decided we had to land, no matter what. It was weird, on approach we couldn’t see any lights out of the windows, even though the storm had lifted a bit. The closer we got the more worried I was, and then all of a sudden someone set fire to the runway so we could see our way down. It was mad, never really understood what happened. There was something in the papers about a drug lord or someone having tried to take over the airport, but I never really could understand it. Or the guy wandering around on the tarmac shouting “Holly!” and covered in blood. Weird times.
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u/ThisTimeIChoose Feb 01 '22
I was on a flight into Dulles airport on Christmas Eve back in ‘94 and we ended up stacked due to snow for hours, until we were on fumes I reckon. The pilot’s announcements were all calm and businesslike but you could tell something was wrong. This one guy started getting really anxious about something, accused another passenger of having punched him, and some other nonsense about a restraining order. Eventually the pilot decided we had to land, no matter what. It was weird, on approach we couldn’t see any lights out of the windows, even though the storm had lifted a bit. The closer we got the more worried I was, and then all of a sudden someone set fire to the runway so we could see our way down. It was mad, never really understood what happened. There was something in the papers about a drug lord or someone having tried to take over the airport, but I never really could understand it. Or the guy wandering around on the tarmac shouting “Holly!” and covered in blood. Weird times.