[DUMBGRUNT]

Just like the Pepsi syndrome, only different.

[SkyDancer]

Gotta Have My Pre-departure Coffee

[Grimmy]

If the cabin crew simply had coffee delivered by intravenous drip lines then there’d be no spills.

[monkeyshine]

$320 million and it doesn’t even come with cupholders?

[butlerweave]

Did they add Cup Holders ? LOL or they should have watched this movie ,Fate Is the Hunter (1964)

[dfwgator]

[109ACS]

There was a 1964 film called “Fate is the Hunter” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)) that dealt with this exact scenario. Maybe the Airbus engineers should start watching old movies.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

If it CAN happen, it WILL happen.

The trick is having the right people around that can think outside the process well enough to be able to come up with those implausibilities.

In my line of work (railway signal systems engineering), we had one guy in particular whom i referred to as ‘King of the Goofy Stuff.’ He would routinely spot combinations of scenarios that the rest of us just shook our heads over.

I usually walked out of his office feeling simultaneously stupid and better-educated than when I entered. By the way, he was raised in the coal fields of Southern Ohio and might have actually completed high school.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The first paragraph explains better...

Some of our readers may recall an article we wrote in January regarding spilled beverages being to blame for two Airbus A350 engine-shutdown incidents in January and November. Both led to diversions with one flight operated by Delta Air Lines flight while the other incident’s airline remains unidentified but was possibly an Asiana service. Airbus has now developed a solution to prevent the same unfortunate issues from taking place should liquid spill in the same area.

And I thought spilling liquid into my laptop keyboard was bad news!

[null and void]

"What do you think of this whole ‘spilled beverage in the cockpit’ situation? ... Was it a result of a lack of foresight, or is the blame squarely on pilots?"

Ummmmm, Airbus might have foreseen spilled vin ordinare, or tea, but coffee?

[null and void]

I think I know who made the coffee.

Ain’t naming names, but I am pinging him...

[BwanaNdege]

One of our daughters is a Systems Engineer for NASA’s Orion capsule. Her Major was Human Factors.

Question: Do you have an engine quit from lack of a signal from a switch on the instrument console, or do you have a pilot doze from lack of caffeine?

Or do you install cup holders immediately while you engineer spill- proof panels?

[Bullish]

Jeeze, they can fly a jumbo jet but aren’t smart enough to not spill their coffee?

[PhiloBedo]

Fate is the Hunter..............the movie, not the book.

[StolarStorm]

If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.

[GaryCrow]

I'm an airline pilot. Coffee in the cockpit isn't an option, it's a necessity for us to function just like air. Anything drinkable in the cockpit can and will be spilled sooner or later, it's not a question of if but rather when. Those little sippy cup tops don't work, if they go on they also come off. Cupholders don't solve the problem because to actually drink the coffee you have to remove it from the cupholder, staring at the coffee cup as it sits in the cupholder doesn't give the same effect. I kind of like the idea of stewardesses to hold the coffee cup to our lips while we do that cool pilot stuff, but the problem is most of them are so old their hands shake and they don't see too well so they might pour it in our ear. That could be on purpose though.

I know it's a stretch, but maybe Airbus should design the airplane so the engines don't shut down when liquid is spilled on the console. Radical idea, but a good one I think.