[Jm_]

https://www.thestreet.com/travel/does-korean-air-weigh-passengers-before-boarding

This really needs to happen across the board. The FAA attempts to use weighted averages from CDC, but you go load up a plane in Oklahoma and...these ain't average people, not to mention the rates of obesity increasing and the CDC numbers trying to catch up.

My idea though is that there should be some way to have sensors in the struts, if you know the air pressure and compression distance, you should be able to calculate weight and CG. Why this wasn't done from the get-go, IDK. It would make things way simpler. Well, you'd probably still have to weigh people, but this would simplify the pilot and dispatcher part of it.

 

[kidwoo]

man if only there was some kind of point of entry system that checked passengers where simply walking through a thing could compile a metric


oh well!

 

[DaveW]

a thing could compile a metric

Now your just being silly..... You know you guys will never do metric.

 

[kidwoo]

I'd say 'record pounds' but no flight would ever get off the ground

 

[eric strt6]

just have a squeeze through portal with this sign: " If you cant fit through without help you must have purchased 2 or more seats to board this aircraft"

 

[kidwoo]

Or..........

actually deal with the mass commercialization of leisurely regular air travel as a right of citizenship, one that makes a bunch of bike riders decide that fat people aren't people

in the sf bay, neither are mountainbikers

 

[stevew]

you will bask in vomit residue and like it

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-passengers-were-kicked-off-192052945.html

 

[Toshi]

highly relevant to thread title

Delta Flight Diverts Due To "Diarrhea All Over Aircraft"

A Delta A350 flying a transatlantic journey had to divert to Atlanta because "a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane."

onemileatatime.com

 

[eric strt6]

highly relevant to thread title

Delta Flight Diverts Due To "Diarrhea All Over Aircraft"

A Delta A350 flying a transatlantic journey had to divert to Atlanta because "a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane."

onemileatatime.com

That would be an immediate Take this job ad shove it, I quit moment if I worked on that ground crew

 

[Westy]

That would be an immediate Take this job ad shove it, I quit moment if I worked on that ground crew

That is how you never build seniority and always end up being the shit shoveler.

 

[rideit]

@Pesqueeb , did you and your crew break UA today?
Sounds like a clusterfuck.

 

[Pesqueeb]

@Pesqueeb , did you and your crew break UA today?
Sounds like a clusterfuck.

System wide IT outage apparently. Was over less than 15 minutes after I heard about it. Meh....

 

[rideit]

That kind of thing happens when you are still running enterprise systems on Win95.

 

[stevew]

highly relevant to thread title

Delta Flight Diverts Due To "Diarrhea All Over Aircraft"

A Delta A350 flying a transatlantic journey had to divert to Atlanta because "a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane."

onemileatatime.com

video

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[eric strt6]

That is how you never build seniority and always end up being the shit shoveler.

as you move up in a company you jut get to shovel a higher level of shit but it's still shit

 

[mandown]

highly relevant to thread title

Delta Flight Diverts Due To "Diarrhea All Over Aircraft"

A Delta A350 flying a transatlantic journey had to divert to Atlanta because "a passenger who had diarrhea all the way through the airplane."

onemileatatime.com

Who ya gonna call?

 

[mandown]

 

[Westy]

Why planes are extremely gross right now — and how to protect your health

The recent spate of bodily disasters on planes isn't new. Gross stuff happens all the time, but maybe more people are flying these days.

www.seattletimes.com

 

[Pesqueeb]

Why planes are extremely gross right now — and how to protect your health

The recent spate of bodily disasters on planes isn't new. Gross stuff happens all the time, but maybe more people are flying these days.

www.seattletimes.com

United, American, Southwest and Frontier did not respond to requests for details on their cleaning protocols.

Internally, this is known as "LOL, WHATEVER".

 

[Westy]

Internally, this is known as "LOL, WHATEVER".

"What cleaning protocols?"

 

[Jm_]

"What cleaning protocols?"

Germ tubes.

 

[rideit]

SQUEEB!!

Infrequent inspection of fan blades led to a United jet engine breaking up in 2021, report says

Investigators say one of the engines on a United Airlines jet broke up over Denver in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that wasn't adequately inspected for signs of cracking

www.independent.co.uk

 

[kidwoo]

SQUEEB!!

Infrequent inspection of fan blades led to a United jet engine breaking up in 2021, report says

Investigators say one of the engines on a United Airlines jet broke up over Denver in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that wasn't adequately inspected for signs of cracking

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Pesqueeb]

SQUEEB!!

Infrequent inspection of fan blades led to a United jet engine breaking up in 2021, report says

Investigators say one of the engines on a United Airlines jet broke up over Denver in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that wasn't adequately inspected for signs of cracking

www.independent.co.uk

Boy, did I call that one.

It's kind of/sort of irrelevant how old the aircraft is. Guaranteed at that age the engine has been swapped out several times, and the fan blades have probably been swapped out of the engine too. If this is in fact a case of fan blade failure and not the inner stage turbine seal like we first speculated, the question will then become how many hours/cycles were on the engine and/or the blades and was United meeting inspection requirements on the blades, especially given the history of component failure.

 

[kidwoo]

 

[mandown]

Wanna help cripples fly?

Phone2Action ⚡ Status

act.reeve.org

Act Now – Urge Your Members of Congress to Pass a Final FAA Reauthorization Bill That Includes Meaningful Disability-Related Provisions

 

[rideit]

Shimeng makes airplane parts too?

United is the latest airline to confirm finding fake parts in plane engines, as supplier scandal grows

The parts were discovered in a single engine on each of two aircraft, including one that was already undergoing routine maintenance.

fortune.com

 

[stevew]

did the airbus 319 shrink....

without the person infront of me recling their seat it felt like the back of their seat was about 10 inches to a foot from my face....

 

[Westy]

did the airbus 319 shrink....

without the person infront of me recling their seat it felt like the back of their seat was about 10 inches to a foot from my face....

Has nothing to do with the airplane. Airlines decide how close to mount the seats.

Sounds like you were flying Spirit.

 

[stevew]

Has nothing to do with the airplane. Airlines decide how close to mount the seats.

View attachment 200878

Sounds like you were flying Spirit.

AA

i guess i should have paid the extra 380.00 and upgraded to first class from chicao to jackson hole...

 

[rideit]

Awkward

The One Airline Passenger I Would Never Want To Be, Everyone Would Be Looking At Me - View from the Wing

United Airlines flight 5505 from Aspen to Denver was delayed two hours on Wednesday because a passenger broke the latch on an overhead bin. Everyone on board - or almost everybody - was certainly connecting and most likely missed their connections.

viewfromthewing.com

 

[6thElement]

Awkward

The One Airline Passenger I Would Never Want To Be, Everyone Would Be Looking At Me - View from the Wing

United Airlines flight 5505 from Aspen to Denver was delayed two hours on Wednesday because a passenger broke the latch on an overhead bin. Everyone on board - or almost everybody - was certainly connecting and most likely missed their connections.

viewfromthewing.com

I thought some meathead next to me was going to break one this past week.

Airlines need to control the size of roll-on cases people try to cram into the overhead.

 

[rideit]

“Have you heard the GOOD NEWS about Gorilla Tape?”

 

[Pesqueeb]

Awkward

The One Airline Passenger I Would Never Want To Be, Everyone Would Be Looking At Me - View from the Wing

United Airlines flight 5505 from Aspen to Denver was delayed two hours on Wednesday because a passenger broke the latch on an overhead bin. Everyone on board - or almost everybody - was certainly connecting and most likely missed their connections.

viewfromthewing.com

. We don’t know if the passenger forced the bin improperly, or the latch was on the verge of breaking to begin with. But everyone was sitting on board looking at the person who’d done

Oh, I know. Because this is DEFINITELY why:

I thought some meathead next to me was going to break one this past week.

Airlines need to control the size of roll-on cases people try to cram into the overhead.

I pull these doors off at least once a week because some assclown has done exactly this despite being explicitly told that their bag is probably too big to fit in the overhead. Time and time again.

If this guy had been lynched, he'd have had it coming.

 

[Jm_]

I pull these doors off at least once a week because some assclown has done exactly this despite being explicitly told that their bag is probably too big to fit in the overhead. Time and time again.

Plastic flexes. Give it an extra shove.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Plastic flexes. Give it an extra shove.

You know what doesn't flex? The cheesy aluminum hinges that the door swings on, which is what breaks 99 times out of 100.

 

[Jm_]

You know what doesn't flex? The cheesy aluminum hinges that the door swings on, which is what breaks 99 times out of 100.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Don't tell me how to do my job.

 

[stevew]

 

[stevew]

has to be AI generated

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