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- From: TUK067@maccvm.corp.mot.com (David Wheeler)
- Subject: Airline anecdote - Stranger than fiction
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 07:50:49 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.192648.677@schbbs.mot.com>
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- The parting shot for 1992.
-
- On a bright, hot, sunny summer day a few years ago, a pal of mine who is
- a British Airways captain took charge of a flight on which one of the
- passengers was blind. In accordance with BA's usual standards of service,
- a couple of stewardesses got the guy on to the plane in a wheelchair and
- helped him into his seat.
-
- Walking out across the tarmac to board the plane himself, my pal noticed
- a lot of shocked, dismayed and very worried-looking faces peering out of
- the aircraft's portholes at him. He realised why when it occurred to him
- what a spectacle he must present, walking across the flight-apron in his
- full captain's regalia, wearing a pair of dark sunglasses and being led
- by the blind passenger's guide-dog...
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