Lost Pilot


 There was a pilot flying a small single engine charter plane, with a
 couple of very important executives on board. He was coming into the
 Seattle airport through thick fog with less than 10 miles visibility
 when his instruments went out. So, he began circling around looking
 for a landmark. After an hour or so, he starts running pretty low on
 fuel and the passengers are getting very nervous.

 Finally, a small opening in the fog appears and he sees a tall
 building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot
 banks the plane around, rolls down the window and shouts to the guy,
 "Hey where am I?" To this, the solitary office worker replies, "You're
 in a plane." The pilot rolls up the window, executes a 275 degree turn
 and proceeds to execute a perfect blind landing on the runway of the
 airport 5 miles away. Just as the plane stops, so does the engine as
 the fuel has run out.

 The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it. "Simple,"
 replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple
 question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely
 useless, therefore, that must be Microsoft's support office and from
 there the airport is just five miles due East."

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