Mandarin goes pear shaped

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/...photos/mda.jpg

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

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

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

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! :)

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...ons/icon10.gif

Hi Routermaniac,

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

Cheers!