My family and I were travelling to Cape Town for New Year 2011, we boarded 1-Time Airlines on a beautiful sunny Johannesburg morning. I was seated next to my husband one side and my daughter the other, my son was in the opposite row but still next to my husband. We settled down and the flight took off with the usual smoothness we are so accustomed to. Half an hour into the flight the drinks trolley came along. My son and husband ordered their vodka and coke's along with a beer, my daughter and I each had a cold drink, we all poured our drinks into the small plastic cups given when suddenly the seatbelt lights flashed, before we could do anything, the plane 'dropped', we grabbed our drinks but whoosh it dropped again, this time making us all rise out of our seats with the momentum, all the passengers ooh'd and aah'd and ALL the drinks went "flying" into the air and forward, we were covered in cokes, sprites, beers appeltisers, you name it, whatever the passenger a few rows back were drinking, landed on us and ours landed a few rows ahead. It only lasted a couple of seconds, but the force with which the drinks flew forward was amazing. Settling down, soaked in whatever had landed on us and giggling with fits of hysteria, a lady a few rows infront, came to my husband and said "I believe this may be yours" and returned his beer! Well that finished us, we laughed uncontrollably for the rest of the flight. Really bedraggled and sticky, with stained clothing, we eventually arrived in Cape Town none the worse for wear, to the amazed look on the faces of our family meeting our flight. Penny |