Donna, official friend of NewMexiKen, had a harrowing flight this evening. About ten minutes after take off from Salt Lake City she said it felt as it the pilot had hit the brakes. They returned to Salt Lake under emergency conditions, landing with the runways all to themselves.
While they sat on the suspect aircraft the mechanics went to work. Ultimately, the passengers heard a mechanic tell the pilot, “I really think you’ll be OK.” After that, even the pilot seemed unwilling to try again.
So, Donna and her colleagues decided to scramble to another flight. There they found two mechanics working on that plane; something about rebooting the computers. Ultimately she made it back to Albuquerque on the second plane.
And through this all Donna could only remember what her father, an American Airlines mechanic, had warned her — “Never, never fly on an airline that’s in bankruptcy.”