Remember my blog entry about my horrible travel luck? Well, it's not getting any better. Last weekend, when I was flying to Raleigh/Durham, my plane was about to take off from Tucson airport, we were going full speed on the runway, the plane had its nose up in the air when suddenly, the pilot grounds the nose and slams on the brake. I have no idea how far were we from the end of the runway but I can't imagine that we had a lot of room to spare. While our plane was still trying to come to a stop, I saw the airport fire-trucks rush towards our plane with their strobe lights on. For a while I got excited, I thought I might finally get to use one of those slides but it was not to be :( After a little while, the captain announced that there was something wrong with the airplane brakes so they decided to abort the take off. Well, I am not a pilot, nor do I have any kind of flight training, but it does seem kinda crazy to slam on the brakes at full speed because there was something wrong with your brakes. Either ways, we had to sit on the tarmac for about 2 hours while they tried to figure out what was wrong with the plane. Eventually they gave up and transferred us onto another airplane and sent us on our way. But because of the delay, I missed my connecting flight and I had to spend the night at a crappy hotel in Dallas.
It's bad enough that the pilots scared all the passengers by aborting the take off and made a lot of people miss their connecting flights, but they didn't even let us use the slides! Now that's just inhumane!
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You are right, that is a weird reason to give for slamming the brakes... Maybe the real reason is the pilot saw your name on the flight manifest, knew what happens on days you are flying, and decided not to risk it!
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