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It's amazing the number of people who can't think just a little bit ahead and realize one of the major reasons for boarding passes and seat assignments is the p
by evilDagmar 5y ago
It's amazing the number of people who can't think just a little bit ahead and realize one of the major reasons for boarding passes and seat assignments is the possibility of a plane crash. Because there's two possibilities...
One, where the FAA investigators have a list of people's names and what seats they were assigned, the seats have numbers engraved on them, and if lap belts were in effect generally still contain at least a torso. Meaning getting everyone's various bits and pieces back to their loved ones is a gruesome jigsaw puzzle, but a solvable one.
The other possibility is that the FAA investigators get a list of names of people who were /probably/ on the plane, a large field strewn with "loose meat and offal", and absolutely no good starting point. Also, a gigantic lawsuit and a moon-sized chunk of bad press as loved ones get the wrong body parts, or too many body parts, or too few body parts.
(BTW, never explain this to anyone who is currently on a plane.)
- mbg721 5y agoHow is that different from a car crash? Just the number of passengers?
- jfk13 5y agoAlso the extent to which the pieces of the puzzle may get scattered, I guess. A car crash rarely leads to body parts strewn across entire fields.
- vineyardmike 5y agoAlso you generally know who is in a car. If its my car, and i'm missing. Its my body. If its my car, and i'm at home, its my partner driving my car, or i knew who borrowed it. Cars are tagged with a plate, and VIN and other details that make it easy to identify. Less people means easier to find wallets/phones/identifiers in a clean up action.
- jjav 5y agoAirplane accidents existed before 9/11 and it was never a motivation to identify who is flying, so that's not it. Remember that before 9/11 a flight ticket was just a physical ticket like any other. You'd buy it and could sell it forward or give it away to whoever and they could use it by just showing it. Nobody cared who it was, just that everyone boarding had a ticket.