British Airways has a sense of humor

[pokerfan]

Nothing like a little dinner theater to liven things up...

British Airways apologized today for an error that left passengers on board a flight from Miami to London in a state of panic and shock.

Passengers traveling on British Airways Flight 206 were about three hours into their flight early Friday morning when an announcement warned them to brace themselves for an emergency water landing because the plane was about to go down.

"This is an emergency. We will shortly be making an emergency landing on water," the taped message said, played at around 3 a.m. on the overnight flight.

The cabin erupted in panic as startled passengers woke to the announcement and feared for their lives.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/british-airways-errs-crash-warning-passengers-153019121--abc-news.html

Now, while that's pretty funny, what they should have done is had one of the flight attendants come on the PA, "By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"

[PETRUS]

1. How many passengers would you guess...

...got all excited but were subsequently disappointed when they learned it was a false alarm?

[pokerfan]

3. ditching in the north Atlantic in January?

Sounds exciting.

[PETRUS]

4. There are all kinds of people in this world.

[pokerfan]

2. paraphrasing some Butch Cassidy

Passenger: "I think you should know, I can't swim."
Attendant: "That's okay, love. The crash will probably kill you."

[HopeHoops]

5. Ah yes, the waterfall.

[HopeHoops]

6. "Assume crash positions". My eldest will be on a BA flight on Saturday. I'll warn her.

Yes, she's seen "Airplane" a few times. She's going from HBG to O'Hare and then on to Hethrow and then to Budapest. Long travel time.