Does a two person sailboat that capsized count? Unlike when i used to sometimes flip the sunfish, this catamaran required help from another boat to get it back upright, and i was grateful for the life vest ASI fell into the lake. Still, it was a two-person recreational vessel, not like a ferry or something.
I would classify those as “not a drill” – even if it was a hoax, it was still an emergency situation.
We had to evacuate during the Whitter Narrows quake. Our parking lot was adjacent to a county golf course, so after waiting awhile, we went to the coffee shop there to use the restrooms. A TV was on, and they were showing a graphic of the area pinpointing the epicenter. We were sitting right on it.
There was damage to the older building of our two on site, but my building was newer and built on rollers. Some quakes could make you really queasy.
I’ll allow it.
Oh, huh, that happened to me dozens of times in college. I think the laundry machines set off the fire alarms? I didn’t count that, either.
In that case, I have changed my vote.
Yes, tomorrow’s flight on Lufthansa from San Francisco to Frankfurt is a 747. So you can still fly them if you really want. Most frequent flyers vastly prefer the newer wide-bodies, however.
I went the opposite way. My middle school had been recently integrated (the old black high school became a magnet middle school, and they bussed suburban white kids down there), and about every other week, we would have ninety minute long “fire drills”. We all knew they were bomb threats.
That reminds me, at Boy Scout camp we had to practice righting and climbing back into a capsized canoe to earn the canoeing merit badge. It was kind of fun, especially the part where you capsized the canoe on purpose. But that’s effectively a drill, if canoes count at all.
We had to evacuate a building in Texas when someone smelled something funny. There had been a leak of some kind the week before in a building near us, and people were paranoid.
We took our Explorer Posts kids canoeing in Topock Gorge a couple of years in a row. A lot of fun, but if you tip your canoe, you want to know how to right it and get back in. The only thing we ever lost was one kid’s glasses.
Nearly all our members were first generation Chinese-American nerds (we were a computer post), so it was a ton of fun to introduce them to outdoorsy activities that none of them had ever done. They nearly all had a ball.
We had taken a 747 from LAX to Sydney. Mrs Magill had earned enough miles from weekly trips from Raleigh to Peoria that we could fly business class. We were on the bottom deck, but the flight attendant let us check out the top deck, in case we wanted to sit up there on the way back. It was surprisingly cramp up there. No thank you.
Is that a type for “cramped” or “camp?”
I haven’t been in Air Force 1, but I’ve seen it quite a number of times on the tarmac (and once in flight). I live very near LAX.
I assumed it was a joke answer. And who wouldn’t know if they’d ever been on Air Force One?

…at Boy Scout camp we had to practice righting and climbing back into a capsized canoe to earn the canoeing merit badge. It was kind of fun, especially the part where you capsized the canoe on purpose. But that’s effectively a drill, if canoes count at all.
Ha! I used to be Boy Scout boating instructor, and taught swamping and recovery for both canoes and rowboats. Wednesday was always Swamp Day!

I haven’t been in Air Force 1, but I’ve seen it quite a number of times on the tarmac (and once in flight). I live very near LAX.
Ditto, but I live near March AFB. They tend to stash AF1 there when the Prez is in Orange County.

Does a two person sailboat that capsized count?
We didn’t so much as capsize the 16’ Hobie so much as “break it.” There we were, on a screaming reach across the lake. I was trapped out to port. Don’t know what the trigger was, but the starboard hull folded just ahead of the trampoline pylon. That cat stopped like it had hit a brick wall. Then I got a lesson in the second half of Newton’s 1st Law of Motion. I bounced off the jib, the hull and the ice chest before I finally ended up in the lake. So yes, I was “evacuated” from a sinking boat by life vest. Sorta.
For a time British Airways put a few rows of economy class seating on the upper deck of its 747s. I got to sit there once on a flight from London to San Francisco. It was weird, like a small narrow-body plane within a jumbo.
Ours was less exciting. We were racing along in heavy winds, with one hull well below the other, when the lower hull suddenly dipped below a wave and was pulled down. And the whole thing flipped over, dumping us into the lake.
There were several capsized canoes and kayaks nearby. It was a very windy day on the lake. Fortunately, it was also warm, so none of us was in any real danger.
I’ve seen AF1 dozens of times. I work at Walter Reed and they use the field next to my building to land the helicopter. There is a helipad in front of the hospital but they never use it for the POTUS because it’s right next to a major street. Obama showed up all the time, but I was never there the few times Trump ever came to the base, and I’ve not been there the few times Biden has come to the base (I telework most days). It’s better to not be there when the POTUS comes, because of course they lock down the base and nobody can leave until he does.

It was weird, like a small narrow-body plane within a jumbo.
I’ve never gotten to sit up there, but as I understand that’s kind of the appeal. It’s a small cabin within a big plane, typically with one flight attendant dedicated to that section. So you get more personal service than you would in the rest of the plane.