San Francisco - And Flying Fun.

The first time I went to San Francisco, I did so by adding a couple of days onto a training project I had contracted to do for AARP in Sacramento.  I rented a car, and drove the back roads across through Napa into San Francisco from the north.  The only time I ever drove a car into San Francisco.  The second time I went to San Francisco was related to another consulting contract for AARP. I was scheduled to present a training in Santa Rosa.  I had made pre-paid non-refundable hotel reservations in San Francisco to spend a long weekend after the training and then fly home.  About a week before the program date, the training was cancelled.  We had more staff flying in then they had attendees signed up.  I thought about it for 15 minutes, I was going to lose several hundred dollars on the hotel reservation.  I was able to get a Delta Airlines seat with frequent flyer miles, I think the first time I had flown on award tickets.  I had a wonderful time in San Francisco, and an exciting trip home.  I was flying from SFO to Atlanta, with a change in Atlanta for Lexington, Kentucky.  Someplace over Texas the lights went out, the electrical system on the plane had suffered a major failure.  We went from 40,000 ft, to on the ground in Dallas in about 15 minutes. Fire engines followed us from the runway to the gate, there was smoke coming out of the engine cowling. I was shuffled onto another flight to Atlanta, spent the night there and flew home the next morning.  Then there was the time I was coming home one Thanksgiving, changing planes in Atlanta, and the baggage conveyor dented the side of the airplane.  We sat there for half an hour or so, and the captain announced, we have a dent, but engineering assures us it is safe to fly.  If you want to get off, please do so, as soon as we can we are on our way.  Half the people left, one of the most comfortable slights I ever had at Thanksgiving time.  Then there was the plane in Charlotte that backed into another airplane, pulled forward and backed into it again.  Tore wintips off of both planes.  

Have you had adventures in flying?