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Passengers Endangered By Selfish Smoker.....
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The passengers must have been terrified at the time. Yet another example of the hidden costs of smoking.
The passengers must have been terrified at the time. Yet another example of the hidden costs of smoking.
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Prudie - // yeah I get it but but - have you any idea how many buttons pilots probably have to press during flights? // A lot, which is why they train for years, and get paid eight-figure salaries to make sure they know what to press and when. To try and defend this idiot because there are 'a lot of buttons to press' is farcical.
14:23 Wed 18th Jul 2018
Pixie: "I don't do either, ttt. I just don't understand your logic that it causes people to press the wrong buttons. " - oh dear, why are you being deliberately obtuse? who said anything of the sort? vaping did not cause him to press the wrong buttons, it caused him to need to press a button, as it turns out he pressed the wrong one but the need arose due to smoking, if he wasn't smoking he would not have needed to press anything and the error would not have occurred, geddit?
Prudie - // yeah I get it but but - have you any idea how many buttons pilots probably have to press during flights? //
A lot, which is why they train for years, and get paid eight-figure salaries to make sure they know what to press and when.
To try and defend this idiot because there are 'a lot of buttons to press' is farcical.
A lot, which is why they train for years, and get paid eight-figure salaries to make sure they know what to press and when.
To try and defend this idiot because there are 'a lot of buttons to press' is farcical.
He shouldn't have been messing about with the buttons anyway. Probably turned off an air conditioning pack instead of the flow rate. Air China would probably have sacked him for vaping in the flight deck even if he hadn't caused a decompression because he would have been breaking all the rules by doing that. Not following operational procedures is a big no no these days.
Why do you have to be so utterly dismissive using words like farcical? As I said, in this case, thank God he was vaping so there is a reason to blame him - however any pilot could make a similar error on a button press and have no good reason - except for lack of concentration. The vaping put him in that situation but as mentioned so could eating a tuna sandwich.
Prudie - // Why do you have to be so utterly dismissive using words like farcical? //
Because the notion that a pilot can be excused from an aircraft-endangering action because 'there are a lot of buttons to press' is farcical, there is no other word for it.
I did wonder if you were being humorous, it seems not, so it appears that your post offers some defence, and in my view there is none, and the idea that it's because of a lot of buttons is less than none.
// As I said, in this case, thank God he was vaping so there is a reason to blame him - however any pilot could make a similar error on a button press and have no good reason - except for lack of concentration. The vaping put him in that situation but as mentioned so could eating a tuna sandwich. //
If he had simply pressed a wrong button, he would probably have been suspended and made to retrain before flying again.
If you imagine that he would have been let off because there were so many buttons, and all he did was press the wrong one, then it suggests you don't realise how seriously airlines take passenger safety, and the standards they expect from their pilots.
Because the notion that a pilot can be excused from an aircraft-endangering action because 'there are a lot of buttons to press' is farcical, there is no other word for it.
I did wonder if you were being humorous, it seems not, so it appears that your post offers some defence, and in my view there is none, and the idea that it's because of a lot of buttons is less than none.
// As I said, in this case, thank God he was vaping so there is a reason to blame him - however any pilot could make a similar error on a button press and have no good reason - except for lack of concentration. The vaping put him in that situation but as mentioned so could eating a tuna sandwich. //
If he had simply pressed a wrong button, he would probably have been suspended and made to retrain before flying again.
If you imagine that he would have been let off because there were so many buttons, and all he did was press the wrong one, then it suggests you don't realise how seriously airlines take passenger safety, and the standards they expect from their pilots.
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