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To: proxy_user
When he refused to calm down, the pilot took the decision to divert the plane and make an unscheduled stop-off at an airstrip on the tiny Portuguese island of Porto Santo.

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Porto Santo...is a two-hour ferry ride away from the nearest major airport on Madeira.

LOL! They didn't even drop him at an airport...just a remote island airstrip.
16 posted on 12/29/2005 1:19:16 PM PST by babyface00
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To: babyface00
LOL! They didn't even drop him at an airport...just a remote island airstrip.

A remote island airstrip capable of allowing an Airbus A321 to land, taxi, and then take off again - something tells me this wasn't exactly Gilligan's Island.
35 posted on 12/29/2005 1:45:02 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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