Due to the Jet Blue fiasco on Tuesday, we extended our stay in San Francisco one day and headed back to Austin on Sunday. Forty-five minutes before we landed in Austin, the Southwest pilot announced that we were making an emergency landing in Midland due to fuel smells in the main cabin. Mark and I were seated in rows 3 and 4 so we hadn’t noticed any foul stench.
Once off the plane, we realized the airline fuel had sickened 6 passengers enough that one was taken to the hospital. Once we walked into the Midland terminal we could see a firetruck and police car that had escorted across the tarmac. After a three-hour layover in Midland (and it felt like every bit of 3 hours) we were back in Austin. Another brothers-only trip in the books. iPhone or no iPhone. On-time flight or not. The great company and memories were all worth it.
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I think it was three fire trucks that greeted us on the runway which makes me wonder if we were flying from Los Angeles to Midland with a huge fire ball pushing us along the entire way.
Maybe that's why we were making such remarkable time.
- Mark
You know, I heard about that incident and the people who were taken to the hospital because of the gas fumes. I had NO IDEA that y'all were on that flight.
God was with you!
maggie
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