Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Mistaken for April fools: On a Tea Break (2006)
"Holiday-makers flying back to Britain from Tenerife were told by their pilot that they could not land because an air traffic controller was on a tea break.
The passengers initially thought his announcement was an April Fool's Day joke, but it wasn't. The plane had to circle for almost half an hour before the air traffic controller came back to work."
Source: Masterwordsmith-Unplugged. Te he, you'd have thought the British would find the tea break story more plausible than to think it a joke.
If they'd been travelling in the opposite direction, to Tenerife, it would be unlikely to happen, unless they were travelling on December 28th.
