Comments on Re: Dear Airline Passengers: STFU

Was there a FUPA in the unstuck row?

Passenger probably forgot to pay his new $75 "to bolt the chair to the cabin floor" fee.

Okay, as a tall dude who already dreads sitting behind the guy that just HAS to recline the 1.2 degrees he can before smashing into my kneecaps, I gotta say, that's terrifying.

See, this is what they have stewards and stewardesses on planes for.

Accidents and emergencies.

thank god I was in the loo where there is plenty of room

Jeez. People will bitch about anything nowadays. "Oooh, my seat is rolling about the airplane!"

Whiners.

What is it with planes and maintinence and flying post 9-11?

Maybe it's just too many miles in the skycab deluxeous over end-us bushieous corpus caliente'.

soup's on dick cheney... get in line and join the rest of us POOR PEOPLE OK?

And the flight probably took off two hours late as well.

even if i got crushed by a row of seats i'd be so annoyed that the plane turned around and landed.

O.O holy hell!!! I know Ill likely get heat for speaking here but I have to say something so meh i will subscribe here as part of the to the anonymous guild to protect my ass at work. I work for a major aircraft company manufacturing these huge birds. If given the choice i would fly on one straight out of the factory. HOWEVER give that bird about 20 or 30 cycles (full take off,travel distance, and landing) and its had its first maintenance run you couldn't get me on one if it were to save my life. Airlines are notorious for half assing they're jobs.

@5:
In the loo? During takeoff? That must have been a nice experience.

In related news, hundreds of people were injured today for driving without seatbelts.

That is all.

My aunt worked with Boeing for a while, and told my mother recently some details on how planes are made and what kind of materials are used. My mother, ever since, is now scared to get on them.

Watched "Mythbusters" in a hotel once where they experimented with dropping plane sections and measuring the damage to belted-in crash test dummies. The test was to determine if you were safer in the front, middle, rear, etc., during crashes. They found that no matter what happened, you probably wouldn't be able to make your escape before fire broke out because your legs would be broken by the seat in front of you. Because the seat rows are so close together now.

I think about this a lot while flying.

I was on a flight to Phoenix delayed for about an hour back in May because Alaska Airlines tried to fix a broken seat that kept reclining backwards. They finally gave up and tagged the seat and the whole row behind it so we could take off, but had to bump folks off the plane who now had no seats.