Flight Diverted over Unruly Passenger
chapstan
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A flight being diverted is not really news but:
An international flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport escorted by two F-16 fighter jets Friday night after what officials called a "disturbance on the plane."
What good could 2 F-16 fighter jets do for anything happening on a plane? They might justify scrambling two jets because its good no notice practice, but otherwise its a waste of fuel and air time. IMO.
An international flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport escorted by two F-16 fighter jets Friday night after what officials called a "disturbance on the plane."
What good could 2 F-16 fighter jets do for anything happening on a plane? They might justify scrambling two jets because its good no notice practice, but otherwise its a waste of fuel and air time. IMO.
Since 9/11 that's protocol. If the "disturbance" doesn't solve itself, the F-16 will solve it by shooting it down.
Incident between flight crew, passenger cause Germany-bound plane to divert to DIA
It sounds like the crew miss-reported the seriousness of the incident.
Incident between flight crew, passenger cause Germany-bound plane to divert to DIA
It sounds like the crew miss-reported the seriousness of the incident.
Kneejerk reaction to some little thing I bet.
Passenger: Stewardess, I asked for a Sprite, not a Coke.
Stewardess: Sorry, sir, but I was sure you said Coke.
Passenger: I didn't stutter (a little too testily).
That stewardess (who has been programmed not to think) goes to the head stewardess (who has been programmed to think only a little) who then goes to the captain who is too interested in covering his ass to make an actual decision goes on the alarm and pandemonium reigns supreme: F-16's scrambled, emergency landing, flight delayed for a day, ALL passengers now pissed off and making demands, etc....
This is why I don't make a scene over anything in public even if it is warranted. You're only minutes or even seconds from having the cops set on you who won't evaluate they'll just arrest and send you up s**t creek without a paddle.
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Flight attendant and I suspect that job is quite demanding.
You'll find I sometimes like to use antiquated terms just because.
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Next month will be the 14th anniversary of 9/11. All this over-precautionary s**t having to do with hijacking has been a 14 year long sustained knee-jerk reaction.
We've got to get over it and move on.
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Incident between flight crew, passenger cause Germany-bound plane to divert to DIA
It sounds like the crew miss-reported the seriousness of the incident.
Kneejerk reaction to some little thing I bet.
Passenger: Stewardess, I asked for a Sprite, not a Coke.
Stewardess: Sorry, sir, but I was sure you said Coke.
Passenger: I didn't stutter (a little too testily).
That stewardess (who has been programmed not to think) goes to the head stewardess (who has been programmed to think only a little) who then goes to the captain who is too interested in covering his ass to make an actual decision goes on the alarm and pandemonium reigns supreme: F-16's scrambled, emergency landing, flight delayed for a day, ALL passengers now pissed off and making demands, etc....
This is why I don't make a scene over anything in public even if it is warranted. You're only minutes or even seconds from having the cops set on you who won't evaluate they'll just arrest and send you up s**t creek without a paddle.
Incident between flight crew, passenger cause Germany-bound plane to divert to DIA
It sounds like the crew miss-reported the seriousness of the incident.
Passenger: Stewardess, I asked for a Sprite, not a Coke.
Stewardess: Sorry, sir, but I was sure you said Coke.
Passenger: I didn't stutter (a little too testily).
That stewardess (who has been programmed not to think) goes to the head stewardess (who has been programmed to think only a little) who then goes to the captain who is too interested in covering his ass to make an actual decision goes on the alarm and pandemonium reigns supreme: F-16's scrambled, emergency landing, flight delayed for a day, ALL passengers now pissed off and making demands, etc....
This is why I don't make a scene over anything in public even if it is warranted. You're only minutes or even seconds from having the cops set on you who won't evaluate they'll just arrest and send you up s**t creek without a paddle.
Show me where it says I can't.
Someone puts something on twitter about a lady punching a flight attendant but nothing on any news site about an arrest for assault or anything else certain. No one seems to have gotten this incident on video, either. Amazing since everyone carries a video campear on their person.
Even if there was an assault thats no reason to scramble F-16's or make an emergency landing. That whole thing had to have been very expensive.
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what's not a waste these days, buying crap that's less durable than the package,
and it comes all the way from china, is transport for free?
it would be unsurprising if we subsidize this to happen
Incident between flight crew, passenger cause Germany-bound plane to divert to DIA
It sounds like the crew miss-reported the seriousness of the incident.
Passenger: Stewardess, I asked for a Sprite, not a Coke.
Stewardess: Sorry, sir, but I was sure you said Coke.
Passenger: I didn't stutter (a little too testily).
That stewardess (who has been programmed not to think) goes to the head stewardess (who has been programmed to think only a little) who then goes to the captain who is too interested in covering his ass to make an actual decision goes on the alarm and pandemonium reigns supreme: F-16's scrambled, emergency landing, flight delayed for a day, ALL passengers now pissed off and making demands, etc....
This is why I don't make a scene over anything in public even if it is warranted. You're only minutes or even seconds from having the cops set on you who won't evaluate they'll just arrest and send you up s**t creek without a paddle.
Show me where it says I can't.
Someone puts something on twitter about a lady punching a flight attendant but nothing on any news site about an arrest for assault or anything else certain. No one seems to have gotten this incident on video, either. Amazing since everyone carries a video campear on their person.
Even if there was an assault thats no reason to scramble F-16's or make an emergency landing. That whole thing had to have been very expensive.
it is when the lady in question claimed to want to bring the plane down because they confiscated her cat.
"She said that she was part of the mafia and that the mafia follows her around the world and that she was able to bring the plane down if that needed to be the case if she couldn't see her cat," said passenger Dashenka Giraldo.