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As easy of a target as airlines are for the usual criticism, this is an heroic feat. I applaud the efforts of everyone involved. I can't image what it must be
by nxsynonym 9y ago
As easy of a target as airlines are for the usual criticism, this is an heroic feat. I applaud the efforts of everyone involved.
I can't image what it must be like to fly into a storm system like that. Nerves of steel.
- antihero 9y agoI wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? It'd be interesting to know the internal culture with regards to it.
- Tuxer 9y agoThey did, this was a volunteer crew. Most of the passengers on the return flight weren't passengers in the normal sense of the word, but non-reqs, delta and other airline employees that were working in that airport and wanted to get out of dodge.
- losteverything 9y agoWho was on the arrival flight?
- imatworkyo 9y agothose with the real balls of steel
- explorigin 9y agoIt'd be really nice if we could leave the reddit vernacular over there.
- 21 9y agoMostly officials and emergency personal, according to other reports.
- qume 9y agoThe captain makes the same call on every flight. The plane and passangers are her responsibility regardless of the situation. Edit - also the call is made continuously. They can back out any time.
- minz 9y agoWhy do you put "her responsibility", instead of "his responsibility", as captain's grammatical gender is masculine?
- grzm 9y agoEnglish doesn't generally have gendered nouns, and the few it has are generally going out of use. I'm not aware of captain as being gendered in English.
- minz 9y agoHow do you choose between his or her in this case?
- grzm 9y agoThis is more involved than I care to get into here. Here's a Wikipedia article which discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun Why create an account to make your initial comment? It doesn't seem very substantial or on-topic. The two reasons I can think of aren't very charitable, which is why I'm asking, assuming that it's neither of those.
- schrodinger 9y agoMy charitable explanation is that it's a non native speaker of English genuinely asking the question to learn.
- aaron695 9y agoYou don't, unless it's to create off topic arguments/trolling. To answer your question if you know the sex, you say the sex. If not you use sexless pronouns like "their" and "they" even if they are not 'proper' by old strict standards, basically they are, because language evolves.
- phkahler 9y ago>> I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? They may or may not have volunteered for the flight, but they do get the final decision to go in or turn back once the airline OKs it.
- mnglkhn2 9y agoThat is why they were able to charge more than 3k per ticket to fly out of troubled locations on Irma's path.
- rando444 9y agoHurricanes aren't really difficult to fly through since the air moves horizontally, and is mostly predictable, it doesn't really affect the flight much. Takeoff and landing are the major problem areas. Thunderstorms, however, are much more difficult to fly through, because the air is moving vertically in an unpredictable fashion.
- capkutay 9y agoYeah but what if they couldn't take off in time? Those pilots/crew would suddenly be stuck on an island weathering one of the most powerful hurricanes in history.
- jacquesm 9y agoRecorded history.
- SeoxyS 9y agoThis raises an interesting point. Do you know how long we've been accurately recording cyclones?
- fish_fan 9y agoDepends on what you're trying to measure! Arguably we still can't measure many things accurately.
- spc476 9y agoThe National Hurricane Center has some records [1] going back to 1851 [2]. I'm sure those are based more off eye witness accounts. [1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#tracks_all http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#tracks_all [2] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tracks/tracks-at-1851.png http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tracks/tracks-at-1851.png
- bluesnowmonkey 9y agoHistory already means recorded. Anything before records exist is called prehistoric.