For lost cell phone...

I have had some bad experiences in winter travel such as delay, cancellations, missing the connection, double booking etc. I bet everyone who travels frequently experienced all of these.

This time it was none of above but very interesting.

So I left my last day from Bologna around 8 AM and got to Paris around 12 AM.
They warned me between the terminals are so far that I have to run!
So I ran as fast as I could but still able to get some photos from France.

Then I got on the airplane in time safely... I made it!

But about 2 hours later after we departed Paris, I was in my deepest sleep, I hear some people talking loudly and looking at the windows.

"Wow they are dumping so much fuel!!"

This was not a nightmare but in the real situation!
I woke up completely and asked people around me what just happened to our aircraft!!!

They told me they found a NOKIA cell phone that they didn't find any owner and they decided to go back to Paris again to drop that phone and in order to land, they have to dump most of the fuel!!! So that's what is was.

I can't believe I was sleeping and the guy next to me was sleeping all the way back to Paris but none of the crew woke us up to confirm verbal Yes or No for making such a big decision!!

After we landed Paris again around 4 PM. We had to wait for the French Police to show up to check that NOKIA cell phone out on the airplane which took about 1 hour to get out.
They they announced it will be faster if all of us get off and switch the aircraft.
It was about 500 passenger who were very frustrated and got forced to be off (at one point they were saying we had to slide the emergency yellow slide in the middle of run away strip!)
We got back again to the terminal and at the gate.
No one knew what was going on. Everyone thought "OK we just switch the aircraft"
not knowing we will be there for another 8 hours at the gate!!!

Everyone started to get really angry and did many things that was interesting.
Some people coped the situation well and started to make friends, like one lady who I just met from this incident started to show me all her traveling pictures and the property that she bought in Dubai, some people just got too angry that they called Fox news to say how horrible this situation was.

I was trying to get in touch with my husband calling but was not working..
So I got Internet card and thanks to chat culture!
I found one of my friend was on line so I asked him to call my husband to let him know that unknown cell was found and now we are stuck!

There were soooo many angry and frustrated people and at one point their boiling anger went all the way up to the sky in Paris, I had to use all my Japanese wisdom and perspective and made a small speech about how we were lucky that we all have our remaining here than exploded over the Atlantic Ocean and none of your family nor friends will ever find any single part of our body! That calmed the atmosphere down a little bit.

What'd if that NOKIA cell phone was a real bomb trigger....

I am sure it was not and I am sure if the crew woke every single passenger on the airplane, they would have found the owner!!


Finally we landed Boston after 12 hours off by original arrival time...

Not so many custom staff were working since it was already close to 2 AM. So it was about 4 sleepy custom guys against 500 extremely sleepy people, by the time I got home was after 3 AM.

This is after I had 4 hours of sleep in 2 days.

My friend in Boston asked me if I am suffering by jet-lag..
The answer is "No".

May be that's the best way to prevent your jet-lag.

Girl's Talk and Lost Cell Phone!!!


At leaset I got one great picture of Alps from the air plane : )