You Tell Me Which is More Terrifying

I'm feeling a little better today. Sometimes all you need is a good cry to clean out the plumbing. I don't, however, recommend reading about Baxter the dog if you're feeling the least bit emotionally fragile. Don't Google! I swear, don't do it!

Have you ever played "Which Would You Rather?" If you ever spent any time in a dorm room at college drinking beer out of a beer ball and smoking weed from a Coke-can bong, you probably have. It's one of those stupid stoner games in which you ask someone to choose between two distasteful yet unrelated things. "Which would you rather? Be trapped alone on a desert island forever? Or have two-inch legs?"

Today's "WWYR?" comes to us courtesy of Delta airlines.

Which would you rather? Book a flight on which the two pilots either get distracted or fall asleep and somehow manage to "wander" 150 miles off course, losing radio contact with ATC for nearly an HOUR AND A HALF, causing them to call the pilots of other planes to ask them to try and raise them on the radio, and finally leading the FAA to consider scrambling fighter jets to intercept, or...

Would you rather book a flight from Brazil to Atlanta on which a member of the flight crew becomes ill, and in the resulting cockpit cleanup the rest of the crew misses the runway altogether and lands the plane ON A TAXIWAY?

Both true stories. Read about them both here.

There are so many levels of scary here I don't know where to start. Didn't the flight attendants on the wandering plane wonder what was going on? What about the passengers? Why did it take the FAA so long to even think about srambling jets for a plane that had gone silent for 78 minutes? Does anyone in that agency remember what happened eight years ago when they were caught flatfooted when a bunch of planes went missing? And what about the people on the flight from Brazil? What did they think when an incapacitated navigator or first officer was brought into the main cabin? Did the guys in the Hartsfield tower totally shit themselves as they watched that 757 land in the wrong place, then immediately become believers because there were no other planes on that taxiway?

Note to self: don't fly Delta. Clearly their financial problems are causing some serious trickle-down shit.