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The flight in question went from Karachi to Medina carrying a total of 416 passengers, on a Boeing 777 with a total seating capacity of 409, including staff sea
by nautical 10y ago
The flight in question went from Karachi to Medina carrying a total of 416 passengers, on a Boeing 777 with a total seating capacity of 409, including staff seats. !!
- nautical 10y agoWere the passengers standing while taking off ?
- dingaling 10y agoAll passengers were seated, airline non-revs were on portable jump-seats. Per Captain's discretion. Maximum certificated escape capacity for a 777-300ER is 550.
- wwice 10y agoYes. Here's what Pakistan daily Dawn has to say "As many as seven passengers aboard the Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on Jan 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers in a serious breach of air safety regulations." https://www.dawn.com/news/1316682/pia-probing-safety-breach-after-seven-passengers-forced-to-stand-during-flight https://www.dawn.com/news/1316682/pia-probing-safety-breach-...
- jwilk 10y agoDid they also stand during takeoff and landing? Doesn't sound believable...
- nautical 10y agoSorry but I don't understand the down vote , I was trying to understand the situation ?
- kakarot 10y agoPeople downvote over some dumb stuff sometimes on HN, but I'd be careful about posting a complaint about being downvoted that contains no other contents. It's against site rules and could get you in trouble.
- jwilk 10y agoThe downvoters were annoyed by bad punctuation. ;-P Don't put spaces before commas or question marks. Single question mark is enough. "??" looks sloppy.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago> Don't put spaces before commas or question marks. Actually, I do this all the time, when what precedes the punctuation mark is a URL. It just doesn't seem right to have the URL seamlessly run into a punctuation mark that isn't actually part of it.
- jwilk 10y agoYeah, I sometimes do it too, even though it doesn't look pretty. Another possibility is to put <> around the URL; but that didn't work correctly on HN last time I tried.
- FabHK 10y agoURL a permissible exception to a rule that otherwise stands. You can identify texts written by French people by the extra spaces (if they're careful or have a good word processor, it'll even be a non-breaking space). PS: Spaces before smileys also permissible :-)
- jlgaddis 10y agoYou asked a question that is easily answered by RTFA -- in the first sentence even!