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A corking tale from the other side of the Irish Sea involving an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Paris:
"Around 20 minutes after taking off from Dublin, an announcement in English said passengers should return to their seats and fasten their seatbelts because it was about to get bumpy. It was soon followed by another announcement, this time in French.
Irish passengers presumed it was also about turbulence. Except somebody pressed the wrong pre-recorded message – warning the plane was about to make an emergency landing.
One passenger told the Irish Examiner that a French man who was dozing next to him suddenly woke up and looked very startled. "The woman behind me was crying. All the French freaked out," he added.
It took a few minutes before the cabin crew realised the error".
I suppose monoglot Gauls must have been impressed with the sang froid of their English speaking passengers.
"Around 20 minutes after taking off from Dublin, an announcement in English said passengers should return to their seats and fasten their seatbelts because it was about to get bumpy. It was soon followed by another announcement, this time in French.
Irish passengers presumed it was also about turbulence. Except somebody pressed the wrong pre-recorded message – warning the plane was about to make an emergency landing.
One passenger told the Irish Examiner that a French man who was dozing next to him suddenly woke up and looked very startled. "The woman behind me was crying. All the French freaked out," he added.
It took a few minutes before the cabin crew realised the error".
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