Share by Carolyn Wincer
It had been a long flight in darkness from London so I was happy to see the sunrise over Africa because it meant there was only a few hours to go before we landed in Johannesburg. The year was 2001 and as the cabin crew were about to serve breakfast the Virgin Atlantic Captain spoke to us about a delay. Thanks to an early departure and a strong tailwind we were now arriving too early; basically Johannesburg wasn’t ready for us so we’d have to circle somewhere. By way of apology he explained that he had secured permission to take us on a little scenic flight in the meantime.
I don’t think many of us had done a ‘little scenic flight’ on a Boeing 747 before so we all eagerly opened our window shades as the pilots circled first one way around Lake Kariba then the other so that everyone could see, with those in the middle crowding to the closest window. He explained that they had permission to go a little lower to improve the view and apologized that we were only able to do a few circuits before moving on. Needless to say we were all very happy with this unexpected development and many years later a Southwest Airlines pilot did a similar thing when we waited to land in Las Vegas. The Captain got permission to take our 737 on a little circuit over the Grand Canyon complete with a commentary from the cockpit on how it formed....
I don’t think many of us had done a ‘little scenic flight’ on a Boeing 747 before so we all eagerly opened our window shades as the pilots circled first one way around Lake Kariba then the other so that everyone could see, with those in the middle crowding to the closest window. He explained that they had permission to go a little lower to improve the view and apologized that we were only able to do a few circuits before moving on. Needless to say we were all very happy with this unexpected development and many years later a Southwest Airlines pilot did a similar thing when we waited to land in Las Vegas. The Captain got permission to take our 737 on a little circuit over the Grand Canyon complete with a commentary from the cockpit on how it formed....
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