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madokie

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22. Sounds like flying into Los Angeles airport

Reply to Buns_of_Fire (Reply #12)

Wed May 8, 2013, 11:56 PM

May 2013

coming in from the east when we came over the mountains we hit an air pocket and lost 300 ft elevation. I was in a window seat and it looked like the plane was flapping it wings. This was way back in '68 and we were in a 727.
I hated flying into LA because of the air turbulence we'd hit.

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