I do everything I can to avoid LAX.
Many years ago i was flying to Knoxville Tenn.
I could have flown direct out of LAX but instead I booked a connecting flight out of OC. it was worth it as long as I didn't have to set foot anywhere near LAX.
This is what I posted about that flight after I got home:
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American airlines emergency landing
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Last Sunday morning I was aboard a flight that left Orange county airport. We almost made it to palm Springs when the plane started oscillating up and down.
It wasn't turbulence as it was repetitious and non-random.
the pilot came over the loud speaker and told us we were diverting to LAX.
We made a normal landing except it seemed much flatter and faster than normal and there were fire trucks and emergency vehicles lining both sides of the run way.
They followed the plane to the terminal and then left.
No one would tell us what was wrong with the plane but I later heard it was a failed stabilizer.
They kept us on the plane for 1 1/2 hours before they finally let us off, and then asked us to stand in-line another hour. They offered no assistance or help, no answers, just herded us like cattle while they tried to figure out what to do.
I called our corporate travel agent and got another flight 4 hours later to Chicago, then on to Knoxville on a puddle jumper. My luggage did not make the same trip. Very nice.
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