The Western Africans, thought the White people were devils who came from inside the Earth, because they would see the tops of their masts first, and then see the ships rise up out of the sea.
On a UAL flight a few years ago, there was a near-passenger mutiny. It was on an East Coast-Europe trans-Atlantic flight. One of the pax saw the routing on the IFE, and knew the pilot was lost, or someone had taken over the plane, because they weren't going straight East to Europe. Instead, they were flying North, towards Maine and Canada. The pax asked a FA about it, and didn't get a response that he liked. He ended up convincing a LOT of the passengers that something was very wrong in the cockpit. The Capt had to spend a good amount of time on the PA explaining flat maps vs. a globe, and how the shortest route looks like a curve on a flat map...
If everyone had Ms. Eagan, like I did, for Grade 7 and 8 Geography, this thread wouldn't exist.
03-30-2020
