[401] in Humor
HUMOR: Microsoft ILS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 10 10:39:14 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 09:26:16 EDT
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 16:37:00 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
From: dirque@gnu.ai.mit.edu
A pilot is flying a small single-engine charter plane, with a couple
of really important execs on board. He's coming into Seattle airport,
only there is thick fog, less than 10m visibility and his instruments
are out. So he circles around looking for landmarks. After an hour or
so, he's pretty low on fuel and the passengers are getting very nervous.
At last, in a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one
guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot banks the plane around,
winds down the window, and shouts to the guy "Hi, where am I?" to which
the solitary office worker replies, "You're in a plane." The pilot winds
up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to execute a
perfect blind landing on the runway of the airport 5 miles away. Just
as the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out. The
passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it. "Simple," replies
the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The
answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless,
therefore we must have been at Microsoft's support office and from
there the airport is just 5 miles away on a course of 87 degrees."
