Baptême de l'air
Elodie's first flight was a memorable one...
4 hours into the flight we hit some unexpected "clear sky" turbulence over Greenland.
There was no warning, Etienne and I were standing in the aisle when it first started to shake. I fell on the ground. I'm still wondering if it was because I lost my balance or because I wanted to protect Etienne.
After making sure that I had not hurt Etienne when I fell, we rushed to our seats and fastened our seat belts as fast as possible - not an easy task under pressure.
At the back of the plane the turbulence was apparently even stronger. A lady fell and broke her arm ! Stephanie's neighbour was back there too, he crawled up the aisle on his hands and knees but could not get back to his window seat because of Elodie's bassinet. He kneeled and grabbed the arm rest, Stephanie grabbed his arm until the pilot advised him to reach for the closest flight attendant's seat.
Stephanie managed to put the belt around Elodie and started praying. I hugged Etienne and started singing "Elmo's song" to calm him down. ;-)
Some people were vomiting and it smelled really bad in the airplane.
I tried to count the number of times that I had flown safely across the Atlantic (32 I think). Etienne, Elodie and the 3 young kids around us all fell asleep. Stephanie thinks it's a kind of defense mechanism...
The turbulence stopped after about 35 minutes but I'm sure it felt like 1 hour for all the passengers. One flight attendant with years of experience told me it was the worst turbulence he had ever been in.
Stephanie says she's not flying back to France ever, so I'm checking fares for the cruise.
Hopefully Elodie will not remember any of this, because she's going to have to fly quite a lot in the coming years !
4 hours into the flight we hit some unexpected "clear sky" turbulence over Greenland.
There was no warning, Etienne and I were standing in the aisle when it first started to shake. I fell on the ground. I'm still wondering if it was because I lost my balance or because I wanted to protect Etienne.
After making sure that I had not hurt Etienne when I fell, we rushed to our seats and fastened our seat belts as fast as possible - not an easy task under pressure.
At the back of the plane the turbulence was apparently even stronger. A lady fell and broke her arm ! Stephanie's neighbour was back there too, he crawled up the aisle on his hands and knees but could not get back to his window seat because of Elodie's bassinet. He kneeled and grabbed the arm rest, Stephanie grabbed his arm until the pilot advised him to reach for the closest flight attendant's seat.
Stephanie managed to put the belt around Elodie and started praying. I hugged Etienne and started singing "Elmo's song" to calm him down. ;-)
Some people were vomiting and it smelled really bad in the airplane.
I tried to count the number of times that I had flown safely across the Atlantic (32 I think). Etienne, Elodie and the 3 young kids around us all fell asleep. Stephanie thinks it's a kind of defense mechanism...
The turbulence stopped after about 35 minutes but I'm sure it felt like 1 hour for all the passengers. One flight attendant with years of experience told me it was the worst turbulence he had ever been in.
Stephanie says she's not flying back to France ever, so I'm checking fares for the cruise.
Hopefully Elodie will not remember any of this, because she's going to have to fly quite a lot in the coming years !
posted by Alain
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