Aug 12, 2008 07:00
It's a sweltering morning in Locarno, Switzerland, and the author of the notorious Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, is cheerfully reminiscing about his near disastrous flight to nearby Lugano the previous day. "The hydraulics failed. They were about to land, then all these alarms went off because the hydraulics had failed on one side of the plane. They had to fly all the way back to Zurich with the landing gear extended and land there. It was a very rough landing and it became chaos after that."