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...walked back to my own seat—the frenzied flight attendant right on my heels—I began to worry. Maybe the “indicator problem” the captain spoke of was, contrary to his soothing claims, actually something to worry about. The plane continued to circle Logan airport, a mere 10,000 feet above the city. I buckled up and picked up the safety card...
...rose into the air. For those of us aboard, who had no idea anything had gone awry, the malfunction was a bothersome inconvenience, a mere “problem with the indicator,” as the captain so vaguely and reassuringly cooed over the intercom. The plane circled Logan for two hours, burning off fuel so as to minimize the risk of explosion upon emergency landing...
Meanwhile, my mother crouched teary-eyed in front of in the television screen, as my plane was depicted circling the airport on CNN News amid much ominous speculation. As for me, I reluctantly buried myself in Justice readings, straining under the pressure of a very full bladder, and I wondered why the pilot insisted upon spending two hours flying in circles when he could just as easily burn off fuel in a straight line, in the direction of happy Milwaukee. I was blissfully ignorant, if slightly irritated...
...held the student for five days inside a cell that “reeked of feces,” Bakshi said.Bakshi, who hails from Washington D.C., said he boarded a British Airways jet to return to the United States on Dec. 30, but Zimbabwean authorities called him off the plane and would not let him leave the country. Bakshi said that members of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization accused him of “spying and sabotage” and told him his Harvard connections were “just a cover.” According to Bakshi...
Bakshi, who hails from Washington D.C., said he boarded a British Airways jet to return to the United States on Dec. 30, but Zimbabwean authorities called him off the plane and would not let him leave the country...