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When my plane was about to collide!

22 February 2013 30 Comments

These days I am low on health and I am not at all active on writing front, whether blogging or otherwise. I feel very tired and I am sleeping like there is no tomorrow.

Sleep reminds me of a small anecdote which I want to share with you all.

It had happened last year. I was flying Bangkok Airways to Thailand. The flight was in the evening and as usual I had my window seat. :)

Immediately after our airplane settled above the clouds, I could see the Sun setting. To my disappointment my window pane was very dirty from outside so I was unable to take any photo. But I did not want to let go of having a window seat. I turned back and clicked a few shots through the window behind.

Man! That was some work and then I dozed off !

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I woke up after a few hours. I think the captain had made some announcements. I looked at other passengers; most of them were fast asleep. The plane was shaking and probably passing through a turbulence zone. Rubbing my eyes, I looked out of the window. It was pitch dark.

And suddenly I jumped ! I jumped and I shrieked.

Now I knew why the captain had made that announcement !

Can you believe if I say I saw a small plane flying very parallel to ours? I rubbed my eyes again and the plane was neither slowing down nor changing its direction as if it was participating in a race with us !! I thought the announcement made by the captain must have been to warn us. In those moments, I thought our planes were going to collide in no time. Like a Bollywood movie, all those bad & sad thoughts came to my mind, which generally ask you to say your last prayers.

But I didn’t give up. I thought it was my duty to inform the irresponsible captain. Perhaps he too was sleeping or else he would have swerved the plane away! I shook my sleeping co-passenger to let me out. He thought I was in urgent need to go to restroom. But when I told him the grave situation, sceptically he leaned over my seat to look out.

And then he laughed out loudly ! What he told me had made me look the other way in utter embarrassment. He told me that it was the wing of the airplane and NOT another plane.

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This photo was taken after the incident. :)

My husband still laughs at my stupidity. Other family members would never know about it (they don’t read my blog).

Well, I did not want to take any chances on my return flight. I did my flight booking by Emirates.

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30 Comments »

  • Meghana said:

    Real fun…..

    # 22 February 2013 at 6:06 PM
  • manuprakashtyagi said:

    well , after that all is well.

    # 22 February 2013 at 7:58 PM
  • Nisha (author) said:

    Manu,
    Yesss. :)

    # 22 February 2013 at 8:34 PM
  • arvi said:

    It does look like an odd sized plane :)
    Really funny :)

    # 22 February 2013 at 8:39 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Arvi,
    At that moment I was really pissed off that how such a small plane could challenge our bigger plane. :D

    # 22 February 2013 at 8:54 PM
  • Manish Kumar said:

    Quite an interesting incident. I remember something similar happened to me on my first plane journey to Andaman. Only difference was that I understood before sharing my fear to my co passengers :)

    # 22 February 2013 at 10:03 PM
  • dNambiar said:

    My blood pressure went up reading this one. It came down at the end, tho’.
    A gripping tale that was. :)
    That’s a lovely picture; the first one.

    # 22 February 2013 at 10:43 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Manish,
    You know how impatient we women are. :)

    And you are granted, it was your first flight. This happened last year when I had flying experience of thousands of miles. :D

    # 23 February 2013 at 2:33 AM
  • Nisha said:

    Divya,
    Imagine my condition ! At that moment I was really pissed off seeing that small plane challenging our bigger plane.

    And thank you. :)

    # 23 February 2013 at 2:42 AM
  • Laloofah said:

    LOL! (Well, we can all laugh about it now, it turned out okay!) :-) I’m glad you shared that photo of “the other plane,” because looking at it I can see how you might have mistaken that wingtip for another aircraft in the darkness! You owe your seat-mate a debt of gratitude – if he hadn’t clarified the situation for you, you’d have burst into the cockpit shouting your warning and scared the happy-crappy out of the flight crew! :-)

    The first photo is lovely, good job figuring out how to getting that shot despite your dirty window. I ALWAYS get stuck with dirty airplane windows.

    I hope your health improves! Have you had your thyroid checked? Take care of yourself!

    # 23 February 2013 at 6:52 AM
  • Abhilash said:

    It was a nice post Nisha. At first I though there was another plane going to collide and you were saved due to the courageous move. The end left me laughing :)

    A nice read for the morning.

    Regards,
    Abhilash

    # 23 February 2013 at 8:07 AM
  • Kirsten said:

    Beautiful photo and great story!
    I love that you thought it was your duty to inform the captain – forget radar and all those instruments in the cockpit… ;)

    # 23 February 2013 at 8:10 AM
  • Pushpa said:

    You gave me a fright. :)
    Good u didnt shout…u would have frightened the pilot too :)

    # 23 February 2013 at 8:11 AM
  • Bindhu Unny said:

    That was funny!

    Take rest and get energised for more and more trips. :)

    # 23 February 2013 at 9:19 AM
  • Indrani said:

    :)
    You leave me speechless!!!!

    # 23 February 2013 at 9:55 AM
  • Amit Agarwal said:

    Ha..ha..
    You’re great, Nisha, to have made it public. :) I loved this honest gesture. :)

    # 23 February 2013 at 11:26 AM
  • PN Subramanian said:

    Such confusions do happen and people start praying!

    # 23 February 2013 at 11:59 AM
  • thomas said:

    Hah!hah!Sometimes we can be a bit groggy during flight.

    # 23 February 2013 at 4:15 PM
  • LadyD said:

    Awesome wing shot and cute story! :)

    # 24 February 2013 at 5:45 AM
  • Laura Hegfield said:

    well your photo is beautiful :-)

    # 24 February 2013 at 6:01 AM
  • Shalu Sharma said:

    Something like this is always scary.

    # 26 February 2013 at 12:04 AM
  • Nisha said:

    Laloofah,
    I had to take the photo of the other plane… to remind me how stupid I was. :D

    Thanks for your concern, I am recovering. No Thyroids for me. :)

    # 26 February 2013 at 10:48 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Abhilash,
    You are welcome. Now when I think, I also laugh. :D

    Kirsten,
    Thank you.
    Ha Ha… I am what I am. :D

    # 26 February 2013 at 10:50 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Pushpa,
    :D

    Bindhu,
    Thank you. :)

    # 26 February 2013 at 10:55 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Indrani,
    At that time, I was speechless ! :P

    Amit,
    Thank you for your kind words. :)

    # 26 February 2013 at 10:57 PM
  • Nisha said:

    PNS,
    :) I hope you are okay now?

    Thomas,
    Absolutely! Now I curse myself for looking out of the window.:D

    # 26 February 2013 at 11:03 PM
  • Nisha said:

    LadyD,
    Thank you.

    Laura,
    Thanks.

    # 26 February 2013 at 11:04 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Shalu,
    Very scary, I tell you! :)

    # 26 February 2013 at 11:05 PM
  • Siya said:

    Hello Nisha sometime it happens! So we should ready for it.

    # 28 February 2013 at 11:10 PM
  • Nisha said:

    Siya,
    Yes it happens it took me off guard when I woke up & saw it. :)

    # 20 March 2013 at 10:57 AM

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