MONTREAL – An air-traffic controller in Vancouver proposed to his soul mate live on air – and up in the air.
His girlfriend was on a Montreal-Vancouver Air Canada flight approaching Vancouver when the ATC tells the pilot he was going to propose to her but “chickened out.”
The pilot didn’t mince words: “Ah come on, that’s bad. That’s really, really bad. Give us her name and we’re going to tell her that.”
The ATC kept dithering; “It’s too late.”
“Not too late. Not too late for anything,” was the pilot’s insistent response. “Do you know where’s she’s sitting?”
“I think she’s 25C. Her name’s Christine Waters.”
“Let’s see how we can do this – stand by,” the pilot said.
He then offers the ATC a choice: being mic’d up to the whole plane or getting Ms Waters to come to the flight deck.
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The whole plane, says our hero.
After giving taxiing instructions to another plane, the ATC jumped in with both feet, so to speak.
“Christine, I’m crazy in love with you, can’t imagine my life without you.
You can’t see me right now but I’m down on one knee.
I have a ring in my hand.
Christine, will you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?”
The pilot soon replies that “everybody’s jumping up and down – and she said yes.”
“Nicely done, by the way. Very, very nice.”
This all happened in 2009, but the video/audio is only now bouncing around cyberspace.
The controller even commented under the video: “I’m the Controller who proposed to Christine.? She’s still the love of my life and we now have three gorgeous daughters. My wife loves all the mileage her marriage proposal is still getting. Cheers.”
Kudos to the Air Canada pilot for playing Cupid so avidly.
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