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Humour
A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around
above Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's
navigation and communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze,
the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to
get back to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building with lights on and flew toward
it, the pilot had the passenger draw a handwritten sign reading "WHERE
AM I?" and hold it up for the building's occupants to see.
People in the building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew
a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU
ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.
After they were on the ground, the passenger asked the pilot
how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position.
The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft
support building, they gave me a technically correct but entirely
useless answer."
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