Cpt. Mark Reynolds (C):“What in the world is that?”
Officer Dave McCormack(O): “What?”
C:“That big thing glowing between us and the runway.”
O:“I don’t know, Tower this is SW4 Perimeter is there another craft on our path?”
Tower (T):“Negative Perimeter, you’re the only incoming at this time.”
C:“We’re going to have to go back around”
O:“So we’re going to tell the tower we can’t come in on this pass because of what exactly? There’s a UFO in our landing trajectory?”
C:“Um I guess”
O:“Ok you’re the boss, but you can deal with the psyche committee, Tower this is SW4 Perimeter we’re going to need to come back around”
T:“Negative SW4 Perimeter, you are cleared for landing”
O:“Well there’s something in our way”
T:“Can you be more specific Perimeter?”
O:“Unable to identify the object”
T:“One moment perimeter”
O:“I feel like an idiot”
C:“Well we need to pull up or were going to hit it”
O:“Tower this is Perimeter…”
T:“Perimeter you are cleared for a second pass return to 2,000 ft and come back around”
O:“Perimeter returning to 2,000 ft”
T:“Perimeter can you attempt to identify the object”
O:“Oh lovely…….Tower unable to identify it’s an umm glowing ball of light directly in the landing path approximately 4 KMs out along the landing path”
T:“Perimeter we’re going to return you to the pattern while we clear this up, climb to 2,700 please”
O:“Umm tower we’re running a little low on fuel cannot sit in holding for long”
T:“Acknowledged”
O:“You know some ones calling for a pysch consult right now”
C:“What would you have me do Dave? Hit whatever the hell that was? Oh crap was that a fighter”
O:“Yep congrats Mark we just scrambled the freaking air force”
Last summer I bought several wishing lanterns the kind that you light a burner under and let float into the sky. We never found the time to do it and they still sit in our garage awaiting use. We never seemed to be able to head out to light them on a calm night and we are unable to use them from our yard as we are almost directly under a flight path.
Something tells me, besides the warning on the package that releasing a glowing orb directly into the path of a 747 may not be the best of ideas. This is just an imagining of what could result if I had not read the product label, or ignored basic common-sense for that matter.
