A small tale of a missunderstanding...

Setting the scene.. 

    last night was Bonfire night to comemerate the Gunpowder Plot (see the Movie "V for Vendetta" for more info on this). In southampton there is a small airport used alot by small commercial airlines and private aircraft.

    It was late and foggy when over the radio came the voice of the co-pilot of a norwegen private plane calling Mayday, Mayday.... It seems that the piolt and co-pilot had never been to England around this time of year and was unaware of the reason for the large explosions and bright flashes they could see in the air and on the ground, they thought that war and been declaired and that Southampton was being bombed. The control tower had to quickly talk to the pilot to assure him that everything was ok and that he did not have to make an emergency landing.

This tale was told to me by the wife of one of the control tower staff. as scary was it might of been i was still in fits when i was told...