Who doesn’t love flying? It’s like a casino in Atlantic City, you know you’re going in and you’re going to get crappy service, whether or not you go down in flames is anyone’s guess. This problem isn’t reserved for American flights, the Canadians have issues, too.
Like mistaking-planets-for-aircraft kind of issues.
Canadian officials determined that a plane from Toronto to Zurich needlessly went into a dive because one of the pilots thought the planet Venus was a nearby U.S. Air Force C-17, and they were going to collide. The dive sent passengers bouncing off the ceiling of the plane, causing some injuries. (Can you imagine the people in the lavatories?) What’s worse, the C-17 was actually 1,000 feet below the jet, so the dive actually sent them at the plane it it was trying to avoid, so the passenger jet had to climb once again.
A collision was avoided, but the rest of that trans-Atlantic flight probably didn’t go pleasantly.