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Why I Wasn’t Offended When An Airline Pilot Called Me An ‘SOB’ When Landing A Plane On Fire

During an emergency onboard, a Delta airline pilot called me an SOB, and here’s why I’m grateful that he did.

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I was on the flight from Savannah, Georgia, to Atlanta that experienced, according to Delta Air Lines, “a mechanical issue with the aircraft’s left engine.”

However, I liked how the air traffic controller in the tower put it more bluntly, “Is everything okay, I saw a pretty large flame on takeoff… [and] when your engine blew it set the whole grass on the left side of the airport on fire.”

When our engine blew, we all heard a loud and high-pitched pop followed by a gentle lift-off and an eerie silence. I know what a normal take-off is like and our pilots were clearly executing a safe and slow climb in windy conditions as they turned Flight 1067 back toward Hilton Head Island to return to the airport.

It was in the first minute or two when the passengers, including me, were most nervous. My wife comforted the lady next to her, who was clutching her hands to her heart in fear. A pilot from another airline sitting behind us got up to inspect the engine out the window.

While the landing was smooth, it was more dramatic than anyone thought it would be because our engine had spread thin lines of flaming grass down a long stretch on the left side of........

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