A Great Story for Twitter's Travel Tuesday!

Our guests always ask us for our best charter stories. We have tons of them! In honor of #TT #TravelTuesday, here's a funny story told to us by one of our guests on board the yacht Three Moons:

Dr. Nicole and her staff were boarding a small plane when the Dr. discovered they wouldn't allow her carry-on as it was too large for the size of the overhead compartments. So, the stewardess gave her a little red ticket in exchange for her bag. Dr. Nicole took her seat, which happened to be a window seat right over the luggage compartment door. Both she and her entire staff witnessed what happened next: Dr. Nicole's carry-on bag was chucked with brute force to the luggage handler in the belly of the plane. To keep from being decapitated by the flying carry-on, the poor guy ducks. The flying bag sailed over his surprised head and flew out the opposite cargo door of the plane like a launched missile! Then, it landed on the tarmac on its wheels and rolled OUT onto the main runway where an arriving 727 airplane rolled OVER it at full speed and squashed the it FLAT!

What can you do at this point? No one has ever experienced this!

By this time the doctor's staff were trying to decide whether they should actually laugh out loud or restrain Dr. Nicole to prevent her from killing someone! The good doctor then proceeded to ask the flight attendant who is standing completely aghast and says to her, "What should I do"? To which the wide-eyed flight attendant replies, "I don't know!" The flight attendant says, I guess we should file an incident report. So they filed the report. Even the airlines didn't know what to do as they had never had this happen! Their question was, "Can you still use your clothes"? Dr. Nicole replies, "NO, my carry-on (which held a very expensive suit) has been flattened by a 727"! As usual, the airline told her that someone would be in touch with her soon.

Many phone calls and six weeks later, a very tall man dressed in army fatigues showed up at her front door with what appeared to be a plastic box containing the remains of her carry-on and belongings and asks, "Is this yours"? She said that it did look like her things; but the contents of her carry-on didn't originally have tire marks or was covered in tooth paste! Not having Dr. Nicole's great sense of humor, he threw the box on the floor, turned to make a quick exit and said, "Thank you for flying U.S. Air"!