Have you never encountered turbulence while flying? Actually have you ever traveled by plane? The risk of injury, from more "acrobatic" maneuvers, should be ra

Have you never encountered turbulence while flying? Actually have you ever traveled by plane? The risk of injury, from more "acrobatic" maneuvers, should be rather obvious. To quantify this risk the severity is anywhere from bruises to permanently debilitating injuries + the risk you cause to others and the probability is rather high. Turbulence is not uncommon. And other risks related to extra fuel consumption, extra weight, placement of weight should be easy to understand but more difficult to quantify. Yes, people differ in their ability to evaluate risk, and their willingness to to assume it. But in this case I think, for us as observers, I think it's quite easy to figure out that the personal and collateral risk is significant and bad. Especially since by doing this you are going outside the specs of the plane so you don't know how bad. It is all of the people who do not care for themselves and accept awful conditions that make those conditions acceptable. If the airline can cram 7 people into the aisle next time they will try to cram 8. If the employer sees the employees are ok with less safety, lower wages, less time off, etc. that is the direction things will go because those very it was allowed to happen. It is a downwards spiral.