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Being on edge is fine but landing the plane and traumatizing everyone on board because flight attendants are unfamiliar with a dud can of coke? Why would the at
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Being on edge is fine but landing the plane and traumatizing everyone on board because flight attendants are unfamiliar with a dud can of coke? Why would the attendant immediately assume there was an inside job to blow up the plane? Did they instead think a random passenger rigged a can of coke and slipped it into their beverage cart before the flight? If you were on that plane, you just had otherwise legitimate figures of authority telling you that you are likely to blow up and have your life ended at any moment for however many minutes it took to land and disembark.
Good grief. Just thinking about this for a minute makes it clear that they shouldn't have prematurely landed the plane. This is an example of the "zero tolerance" mindset that ignores all collateral damage in pursuit of some goal which is often unobtainable (safety).
- Lammy 6y agoI don’t think it’s an unrealistic assumption. If somebody can sneak a device into the lavatory then why couldn’t they sneak a device into the beverage cart right next to the lavatory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434
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