"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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I find it interesting the difference between this thread ("I need
something to
go wrong with an airplane"... for a book) and a previous thread ("I need
something to go wrong with an airplane"... for a movie)

You have misread the request. He doesn't need for something to *actually*
go wrong with the airplane. He needs for the pilot to have a plausible
excuse while *pretending* something went wrong with the airplane.

The difference being, of course, that the original poster of the previous
thread had already decided a priori to have an airplane fail dramatically,
while the original poster of this thread intends (apparently) for the
airplane to operate in no unusual manner.

Pete