Martini Shot
CFIT
We learn the nice way to pass on a television pilot, and a soothing term for a plane crash. A controlled flight into terrain. A perfect show business euphemism...
By Rob Long • • 3m ListenA few weeks ago, I was boarding a small airplane headed from Miami to the Florida Keys. It was one of those old-fashioned planes – small inside, with a propeller hanging from each wing – and if you're a nervous flyer, which I'm not, it's sort of an alarming thing to walk across the tarmac to what looks like a rickety toy.