Awesome story about pilot thwarting hijacker

Bien joue!

 

Pilots are some of the ballsiest people.

Amazing how they can keep their composure during some scary stuff.

 

I'm amazed enough passengers bothered to listen to the announcement.

I figured it would go something like this:

Jacqueline: "What did the pilot say?"

Jacques: "I'm not sure. Something about the landing may be rough, but on balance it's better than being hijacked."

 

Most commercial airline pilots have a military background (at least in the U.S.). Flight school is just too expensive otherwise.

 

There's two words I never want to see on any of my itineraries:

Air Mauritania

 

ok, i'm stereotyping here but i'm not sure the mauritainian air force has too many fighter planes. maybe they have five or six?

in any case, this is a great story.

 

Mauritania is indeed a lightweight militarily. They got their ass kicked by Polisario in the late 1970s despite help from Morocco and France.

 

They got cheated on that holding call early in the third quarter.

 

When you saw that the officiating crew was entirely Algerian, you figured there was probably going to be some bullshit.

 

I thought it was a delay of game?

 

Laugh out loud funny BT.