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Passengers Endangered By Selfish Smoker.....
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The passengers must have been terrified at the time. Yet another example of the hidden costs of smoking.
The passengers must have been terrified at the time. Yet another example of the hidden costs of smoking.
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Prudie - // yeah I get it but but - have you any idea how many buttons pilots probably have to press during flights? // A lot, which is why they train for years, and get paid eight-figure salaries to make sure they know what to press and when. To try and defend this idiot because there are 'a lot of buttons to press' is farcical.
13:23 Wed 18th Jul 2018
But then again, rules or no rules, as 237SJ rightly said, //He could have been eating a tuna sandwich (as mentioned) or a curry or the most pungent piece of garlic bread in the flight deck and that would have been fine. He chose to vape which was against company rules (same for crew as passengers) and decided to tamper with the airflow to try to cover the smell. He decided to press a button that wouldn't ordinarily be pressed, pressed the wrong one (which also wouldn't ordinarily be pressed) which raised the cabin altitude and triggered a decompression response in the cabin.//
Unfortunate for him that he was vaping rather than eating curry – although the impact on the aircraft would have been the same.
Unfortunate for him that he was vaping rather than eating curry – although the impact on the aircraft would have been the same.
What we need to keep in mind is that, had the pilot been doing anything else that generated any kind of odour, be it strong food, whatever, he would not have been panicked into pressing any buttons because the odour's leakage into the passenger section of the plane would not have produced a potential sacking for the pilot for breaking strict smoking rules - again.
//A lot, which is why they train for years, and get paid eight-figure salaries to make sure they know what to press and when.//
Andy's obviously innumerate (no crime) but for someone who, allegedly, works in banking to award BA for such a schoolboy howler.
Makes me wonder.
As an aside, pilots,generally, earn surprisingly low wages.
Andy's obviously innumerate (no crime) but for someone who, allegedly, works in banking to award BA for such a schoolboy howler.
Makes me wonder.
As an aside, pilots,generally, earn surprisingly low wages.
Spicerack - the top-end of US airline pilot salaries is nearly $147,000 per year, hardly a 'low amount'.
The facts to bear in mind are that a lot of pilots earn a lot less than this, and probably some earn more - depending on shifts, over-time, out-of-hours payments, and so on, so to say that pilots earn 'surprisingly low wages' is factually inaccurate.
The facts to bear in mind are that a lot of pilots earn a lot less than this, and probably some earn more - depending on shifts, over-time, out-of-hours payments, and so on, so to say that pilots earn 'surprisingly low wages' is factually inaccurate.
Spicerack - // Andy's obviously innumerate (no crime) … //
I concede that my figure was inaccurate, but that is a simple error, not a 'schoolboy howler' as you rather strangely described it, and one inaccuracy does not render me innumerate, 'obviously' or otherwise.
// Makes me wonder. //
Makes you wonder what?
I concede that my figure was inaccurate, but that is a simple error, not a 'schoolboy howler' as you rather strangely described it, and one inaccuracy does not render me innumerate, 'obviously' or otherwise.
// Makes me wonder. //
Makes you wonder what?
Spicerack - // Well, I was wondering did we have innumerate bankers. It would explain a lot. //
Doubtful.
I think you would need considerable skills of numeracy to weave the web of deceit and fraud that brought on the world ten years ago.
Venal, corrupt, miserly, cruel, thoughtless, horrible and despicable? Certainly.
Innumerate? Unlikely.
Doubtful.
I think you would need considerable skills of numeracy to weave the web of deceit and fraud that brought on the world ten years ago.
Venal, corrupt, miserly, cruel, thoughtless, horrible and despicable? Certainly.
Innumerate? Unlikely.
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