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An air traffic control tower suddenly lost communication with a small twin engine aircraft. A moment later the tower landline rang and was answered by one of the employees.

The passenger riding with the pilot who lost communications was on a cellular phone. He yelled, “Mayday, mayday!! The pilot had an instant and fatal heart attack. I grabbed his cell phone out of his pocket and he had told me before we took off he had the tower on his speed dial memory. I am flying upside down at 18,000 feet and traveling at 180 mph. Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!
The employee in the tower immediately put him on speaker phone.

Calm down, we acknowledge you and we’ll guide you down after a few questions. The first thing is not to panic, remain calm!”

He then began his series of questions:

Tower: “How do you know you are traveling at 18,000 feet??”

Aircraft: “I can see that it reads 18,000 feet on the Altimeter dial in front of me.”

Tower: “Okay, that’s good, remain calm. How do you know you’re traveling at 180 mph?”

Aircraft: “I can see that it reads 180 mph on the Airspeed dial in front of me.”

Tower: “Okay, this is great so far, but it’s heavily overcast, so how do you know you’re flying upside down?”

Aircraft: “The crap in my pants is running out of my shirt collar.”
 

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Sorry group - this is a test post so I can see if something works. (love the upside down airplane post)
 

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That, and they also check to see if you have the special "subscription refill" cartridges and won't work if you don't have a subscription. Ours quit like that because HP mispackaged cartridges we bought at Walmart (and not through hp's subscription).

I've had HP printers for decades but this is our last one. I'm done with them.
Sometime, and in another forum, I'll post the long story of the HP printer memory wars in the '90s. Short story is that HP took active measures to make it difficult for 3rd parties to make compatible memory boards.
 
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