by Rod Hughes
When tourists want to visit Costa Rica, by Jove! they’re determined to do so at all costs!
When Air Plus Comet flight A7981 with 200 passengers aboard, bound for Costa Rica, was forced to return to Barajas, Spain, Monday, due to a problem with the flaps, the crew thought their problems were over when they touched down on the runway. But they were just beginning, reports the Associated Press.
Even though the crew explained that, after the mechanics finished mending the technical problem, they would be off again in several hours, 60 of the passengers refused to leave the plane until they were guaranteed that they would leave soon and be given hotel accommodations to wait. One passenger complained to AP that some of the tourists had been booked on a San Jose-bound flight for Saturday but this had been postponed.
(And you thought it was only a crew that was supposed to mutiny, didn’t you?)
Further, their tempers had not been sweetened by the four-hour delay at the new Barajas airport before takeoff.
Finally, they trooped off to an airport hotel. The Air Comet flight finallly took off again at 4 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time.
Welcome to Costa Rica and have a good time, folks.