因机长迟到，一“乘客”亲自上阵开着飞机跑了！
“自己买机票去开飞机”！机长迟到乘客上阵开飞机，乘客：我也是飞行员，着急去度假。
据《华盛顿邮报》报道，当地时间9月2日，一架易捷航空的航班宣布延误后，发生了令人意想不到的事，一名乘客自告奋勇想要开飞机。这架航班计划从英国曼彻斯特起飞去往西班牙阿利坎特，但由于缺少飞行员，所以将延误数个小时。
For an EasyJet plane full of people heading from Manchester, England, to Alicante, Spain, on Monday, that announcement was followed by something unexpected. To get everyone off the ground, a fellow passenger would fly the plane.
Michelle Potts, who said she was on the flight, wrote on Facebook that she arrived at the airport to discover a delay of a couple of hours, then had to rush to the gate when she saw the information had changed and the flight was getting ready to take off.
"Get to boarding and asked the guy at the desk what's going on," she wrote. " He said, 'Oh, your pilot's gone missing, but a guy that's going on your flight is going to fly the plane.' REALLY CASUALLY!!!"
原来，这位“自告奋勇的乘客”迈克尔布拉德利（Michael Bradley），是一名正在度假途中的易捷航空飞行员。
The informality of his delivery was because the "guy" was Michael Bradley, an EasyJet pilot heading out for his own vacation.
"I'd very much like to go on holiday" said Bradley, according to the video posted on Facebook. "And if you need a favor, I'm standing here ready to go."
迈克尔说，他的妻子早上告诉他航班会延误。虽然不知道妻子如何得知延误信息，但是推测是由于易捷航空网站通知。易捷航空发言人表示，该航空公司在其网站上发布了延迟信息。由于法国空中交通管制计算机前一天发生故障，所以航班需要新的机组人员。
Bradley said his wife had told him early in the morning that the flight was delayed because the airline was short a pilot. It wasn't clear exactly how she knew those details; a spokesman for EasyJet said the airline publishes delay information on its website. The airline needed to bring in standby personnel Monday after delays were caused by a French air-traffic-control computer failure on Sunday, the spokesman said.
迈克尔告诉其他乘客们，由于新安排的机长到这儿需要一些时间，所以飞行将被推迟两个小时。但在安检前，他自己想试试。毕竟作为一个飞行员，他已经在机场了。他打电话给易捷航空，说他也携带飞行执照和身份证明，并且在航站楼“无所事事”，（虽然他没有穿制服，但没有乘客介意这一点。）
Bradley told passengers the flight would have been delayed two hours because of the amount of time it would take for a captain to get called up and respond to the airport. But before he went through security, he said he decided to see whether he could be of use; he was already there, after all. He said he called EasyJet and explained that he was "doing nothing" at the terminal and had his license and identification with him. (He was not in uniform, but none of the passengers seemed to mind.)
在不到一分钟（其实是38秒）的时间里。他的电话响了：“易捷航空打电话给我说，‘拜托求求你，可以请你驾驶飞机去阿利坎特吗？’”
In less than a minute — 38 seconds, to beexact — his phone rang: "They phoned me back and said, 'Please, please, prettyplease with a big cherry on top, can you fly the airplane to Alicante?' "
易捷航空的一份声明称，该航空公司对一位在度假期间“自愿驾驶航班”的飞行员表示感激。根据声明，这是完全符合规定的。该航空公司称，他已经休了四天假，休息得很好，法律允许他飞行。
A statement from EasyJet said the airline was "grateful" to one of its pilots who "volunteered to operate the flight" while he was on vacation. The substitution was "fully in line with regulations," according to the statement. He had been off the previous four days, was well rested and was allowed by law to fly, the airline said.
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