Posted on 02/26/2017 9:08:17 PM PST by jennychase
An investigation is under way after reports that a Pakistan International Airlines plane flew from Karachi to Saudi Arabia with people standing in the aisle all the way after staff boarded extra passengers.
The flight’s captain, Anwar Adil, told Dawn he only learned about the extra passengers after takeoff, by which point it was too late to turn around as this would have meant dumping fuel in order to land safely.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Staff had issued additional handwritten boarding passes, the paper reported.
Think about, PIA flies to USA. And Immigration is done at Pakistani Airport, anything can happen after immigration and before plane door.
I find flying on scheduled airlines today to differ little from being on a big city bus.
Except that on a plane, there is no drooping cord for a passenger to pull down and ring if you want to get off early.
Maybe someday....
Bring your own parachute, for the best discount prices ever!
Just how overweight do you suppose they were on takeoff?
My mind generated this image immediately:
Everyone could have been killed...
Pakistan is the worst country in the world.
Illiterate, violent, politically corrupt, in-bred.
Where is DB Cooper?
Hope that s###hole airline is banned from the USA forever!
Okay but that graphic seems to suggest that passengers standing will take up the same amount of board feet as passengers seated - so why stand?
And liberals want to bring every one of them here.
No, not anywhere near as much. They’re already doing it for peasants going to the Hajj.
Then hide in the lavatory.
Indeed, the TSA checks and the squeezing is destroying the type of flying that used to be a bit more like a boat cruise, just as much as part of the trip as visiting the tourist destination.
But with islam and democrats we cannot have nice things.
“No soup for you!”
haha, during the NY and CT gun bans, Serbu protested saying he would not sell his 50 cal to them and said “No gun for you!” . him joking got picked up by the Seinfeld producers demanding he not steal their copy rights!
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