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Why is it surprising? There’s no danger from smoking on-board; banning it was never about safety.
by eadmund 2y ago
Why is it surprising? There’s no danger from smoking on-board; banning it was never about safety.
- PanMan 2y agoThere is a danger, but not a direct danger (of the plane crashing). It certainly isn't healthy :)
- woliveirajr 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_820 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_820 Yes, it was about safety.
- protimewaster 2y agoIt feels pretty obvious that discouraging fire in a fully enclosed space would have safety as a motivating factor, so I'm surprised that multiple people here are arguing that there's no safety component.
- Rebelgecko 2y agoIt seems like the corrective action was just to add ash trays? Interesting how the pilot later disappeared without a trace tho
- wat10000 2y agoYou just read about dozens of people being killed by an on-board fire and you’re going to say there’s no danger from casually having a fire on the end of a stick? Even if this one wasn’t started by a cigarette, they certainly can cause fires.
- qingcharles 2y agoSmoking on flights sucked. The whole cabin ended up hazy and choked with smoke. It stank. I hated those little ashtrays full of nasty ash and gum in the armrests. There are more than just the obvious safety reasons to ban it.
- varelse 2y ago[dead]
- NBJack 2y agoYou've got multiple sources of pure oxygen on board, and potentially hundreds of passengers counting on a safe flight in a metal tube hurling through the sky thousands of feet off the ground at hundreds of miles an hour.