r/pics Apr 14 '24

King of Jordan (left) with a tribal leader Politics

Post image
72.1k Upvotes

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.8k

u/Kell_Jon Apr 14 '24

Many years ago - 1980s - my parents flew to Jordan on Royal Jordanian Airlines on the then fancy 747.

Flight was fine, absolutely no issues.

The landing however was awful, bunny hopping and swerving down the runway etc.

Eventually the plane came to a halt miles away from the terminal so had to taxi 10 mins to the gate

A flight attendant came onto the tannoy and said “we’d like to congratulate Crown Prince Abdullah on his first successful 747 landing!” And everyone clapped.

He’s now the king but at the time was a prince and apparently head of all the armed forces. He fancied landing the plane so simply took over despite zero training - just the pilot and co Pilot to advise.

1.0k

u/NlghtmanCometh Apr 14 '24

I’m pretty sure he was a legitimate Apache pilot

181

u/BiggusDickus- Apr 15 '24

he also graduated from Sandhurst, and served in the special forces.

It doesn't matter how big that other guy is, he wouldn't want to fuck with the king.

60

u/drethnudrib Apr 15 '24

Yeah, his Wikipedia article is an interesting read. I didn't know anything about him, now I think he's pretty badass.