SO ARE YOU READY FOR `BEES ON A PLANE'?Byline: Jason Kandel You've heard about the terrible menace MENACE. A threat; a declaration of an intention to cause evil to happen to another. 2. When menaces to do an injury to another have been made, the party making them may, in general, be held to bail to keep the peace; and, when followed by any inconvenience or of the new Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. flick, Snakes on a Plane. Now get ready for the latest buzz from the Bob Hope Airport Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR, FAA LID: BUR) is a regional and national airport located in Burbank, California, United States. It was formerly known as United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940); -- Bees ... on ... a ... plane. We're not making this up. What follows is a narrative of this honey of a story documented by a pilot named Brian Murphy Brian Murphy is the name of:
``On May 23, John Irwin For other persons of the same name, see John Irwin (disambiguation). John Thomas Irwin (b. April 24, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English department at Johns Hopkins University. and I were on standby in Burbank for about nine hours with this King Air 200. After we returned from a quick lunch, we checked on the airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. and refilled the ice and removed the coffee pot A coffee pot is a kitchen implement; a cooking pot in the kettle family. A coffee pot is also a container to hold freshly brewed coffee. There are many types and styles. . The airplane had been on the ground about six hours at this point so it had cooled down completely. There were no bees on the airplane at that time. We both went into the fixed base operation to do some paperwork and were called by line service approximately 20 minutes later to inform us that there were a few bees flying around our plane. The line service personnel thought we might want to close our vent windows, which we had left open to help cool the cockpit. I thought to myself, `No big deal, I'll finish this paperwork and head out in five minutes or so to close the windows and keep the `bees' out of the cockpit.' Keep in mind; this was only about 25 minutes from when we had just left the plane and there were no bees to be found when we went into the fixed base operation. To my surprise this is what we found. I would estimate this to be about 2,000 bees on and in the left engine cowling. The picture quality is not the best because it came from my phone but these bees were about three inches thick and also inside the cowling. The bees also started to congregate con·gre·gate tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather. adj. 1. Gathered; assembled. 2. on the windscreen because we had a bunch inside the cockpit already through the vent windows. I think they were talking about how to get in like the rest had already done. We weren't sure what to do next because the Burbank Fire Department had already been called and were coming down the taxiway taxiway: see airport. . I figured we might just start up the engine and blow them all away but after talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to the firemen, this was about their 20th call this month for such a problem with the bees and they planned to spray down the bees with foam and that would kill them off. So spray the foam they did. I was just thinking how expensive this bill was going to be. To my relief, the Fire Department said that was what our landing fees paid for. Finally, we get to see our landing fees in action! A follow-up clean rinse and we were back in business ... almost. Don't forget about the bees in the cockpit. John braved the bees with a dust- buster. It was amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. how strong of a grip the bees had even on a smooth surface like the windscreen. Eventually we had to switch to a larger shop vacuum plugged into a portable generator. By the time it was all over I think we counted about 37 bees in the plane that we had removed. We were relieved that we had evidently found them all because there were no surprises in-flight. Just to be sure we were not going to have any unexpected problems with passengers on board, we decided to run the engine at idle for about five minutes before they arrived. Everything seemed to work fine and only a few stragglers were noted after the engine run. The whole process took about two hours and we were able to take off on time. We told the mechanics at home base about our adventure so they decided to take off the cowling and check for anything out of the ordinary once we returned. This was after a one-hour flight from Burbank to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden at 22,000 feet and then a quick hop over to Sacramento. I don't think I would have believed this if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. We were given bees, but we couldn't make honey. Maybe we made you smile. The passengers by the way had a great flight and did not experience any delays at all. I'm not sure what the delay code is for `bees on board' anyway.'' Jason Kandel is a valleynews.com community reporter who covers the Burbank and Glendale communities. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) A swarm of about 2,000 bees, left, roughly three inches thick, congregate on a plane at Bob Hope Airport. Far left, a worker uses a dust buster to vacuum up some of the unwanted guests in the cockpit. Brian Murphy special to valleynews.com |
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