{"id":23251,"date":"2024-10-10T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23251"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:26:12","slug":"a-cockpit-surprise-in-mid-air-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23251","title":{"rendered":"A Cockpit Surprise in Mid-Air."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Cockpit Surprise in Mid-Air., THE UNEXPECTED BEAUTY OF THE SKY In 1996, I was 7 years old, on my first trip to the U.S. from Japan. My mom and I were flying on an American Airlines flight, and at one point, I needed to use the bathroom. My mom, who didn&#8217;t speak much English, took me to the front of the plane, thinking the restroom was there. There was a door with no knob, and after some attempts to push it open, the door finally gave way. To our surprise\u2026 See more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-402.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-402.png 521w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-402-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, I was 7 years old, on my first trip to the U.S. from Japan. My mom and I were flying on an American Airlines flight, and at one point, I needed to use the bathroom. My mom, who didn&#8217;t speak much English, took me to the front of the plane, thinking the restroom was there. There was a door with no knob, and after some attempts to push it open, the door finally gave way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-403.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-403.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-403-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-403-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-403-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To our surprise, it wasn\u2019t a bathroom\u2014it was the flight deck! For the first time, I saw the inside of an airplane cockpit. The pilots, both Caucasian with brown hair and bright blue eyes, looked back at us, clearly alarmed but silent. I was amazed by the sight\u2014the complex dashboard of controls, the sky stretching out in front of us, and the fluffy clouds. It felt like something straight out of a movie. My mom, panicked, kept saying &#8220;sorry, sorry&#8221; as she quickly closed the door, and we returned to our seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-404.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-404.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-404-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-404-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-404-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That moment stuck with me, a strange and unexpected adventure on my very first trip to the U.S. Even if it wasn\u2019t dramatic, seeing the inside of the cockpit mid-flight was something I never forgot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23248\" title=\"\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cockpit Surprise in Mid-Air., THE UNEXPECTED BEAUTY OF THE SKY In 1996, I was 7 years old, on my first trip to the U.S. from Japan&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23255,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions\/23255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}