“It worked on me last night. » Nazairian Thomas Pedeau will remember his return from Chicago. A professional trip like many others for this employee of a major industrial player in the department. Thursday, November 21, he took a connection in Amsterdam and flew to Nantes Atlantique airport. “We were supposed to arrive at 11 a.m.. » The Caetano storm disrupted the flight plan.
Landing impossible in Nantes
“We are approaching Nantes. We pass under the clouds. And the pilot announces a windy landing”, traces the thirty-year-old. The Air France aircraft is shaken while the pilot operates « des flip-flap » (sharp turns), to avoid turbulence. “It was shaking. We arrive above Rezé. Very close to Corbu (the Radiant House of Le Corbusier). The plane faces the runway. » Conditions are too delicate for landing. He goes around again, like touch and go. “The pilot tells us that we are going to try a new approach. »
The aircraft regains altitude. « On repart », in a thick gray sky. The flight finally heads to Rennes Saint-Jacques. “It was blowing less. » With a colleague, Thomas Pedeau shares a taxi to Nantes airport. Arriving in Loire-Atlantique, the gusts shake again. The vehicle zigzags between the branches. “We collect pieces of wood from the windshield. »
A windshield cracked by branches
The dropped colleague, Thomas Pedeau, begins the return to his home in Nazaire in another taxi. “Another struggle begins. » Nearly an hour and a half to reach the ring road at Saint-Herblain. Then a rain of branches which cracked the windshield near Vigneux-de-Bretagne. In Saint-Nazaire, the scars of the storm greet him: “A change of scenery with trees lying on top of the cars. » For the young father of a family, “the real scare was in flight.”
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