{"id":528,"date":"2009-10-27T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T05:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/at-least-they-did-not-overshoot-the-airport\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T01:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T05:11:32","slug":"at-least-they-did-not-overshoot-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/at-least-they-did-not-overshoot-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least They Did Not Overshoot the Airport!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#65017e\" size=\"5\">Only In Ireland:<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>As the plain approached Dublin number 1 runway, the tower heard from the cockpit:<\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>PILOT &#8211; Bejeesus will ya look how bloody shart dat runway is? <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>CO-PILOT &#8211; Yer nat bloody kiddin, Paddy <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>PILOT &#8211; Dis is ganna be one a de trickiest landings ever, Shamus!<br \/>CO-PILOT &#8211; Yer nat bloody kiddin, Paddy !! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>PILOT &#8211; Right, Shamus, when I say &#8216;go&#8217; put de engine in reverse!!<br \/>CO-PILOT &#8211; Royt, I&#8217;ll do dat !! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>PILOT &#8211; An den ya put de flaps down!! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>CO-PILOT &#8211; Royt, I&#8217;ll do dat, too !! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>PILOT &#8211; An den stamp an de brakes as hard as yer can an pray ta de <br \/>Holy Mudder a Gad !!! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>CO-PILOT &#8211; I&#8217;m prayin already, but I&#8217;ll hit de brakes as hard as I can. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>So, as the wheels hit the ground, Shamus put the engines in reverse,<br \/>puts the flaps down, stamped on the brakes and continued to pray to the Holy Mother with all his soul. The brakes screeched, the tyres squealed,and there was smoke everywhere, but, to the relief of all the passengers, and, not least of all, Paddy and Shamus, the aircraft came to a stop a few meters from the end of the runway!!! <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>As Paddy and Shamus sat in the cockpit regaining some composure, <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>Paddy looked out of the window and said to Shamus, &#8220;Dat has gat ta be de shartist bloody runway in de world!&#8221; <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><strong>Shamus replied, &#8220;Yes, but da ya see how bloody&nbsp; wide it is?<\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#58016d\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Only In Ireland: As the plain approached Dublin number 1 runway, the tower heard from the cockpit: PILOT &#8211; Bejeesus will ya look how bloody shart dat runway is? CO-PILOT &#8211; Yer nat bloody kiddin, Paddy PILOT &#8211; Dis is ganna be one a de trickiest landings ever, Shamus!CO-PILOT &#8211; Yer nat bloody kiddin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}