Posted on 12/12/2022 8:42:19 PM PST by libh8er
This past week, a video was posted showing a passenger lighting a cigarette aboard an American Airlines flight. The four-second video shows the man lighting the cigarette and nothing else. However, the filming passenger Sara Radosevich stated in the accompanying tweet that a flight attendant snatched the cigarette out of the man's hands.
Smoking in-flight
In this situation, the cabin crew responded appropriately by extinguishing the cigarette, as smoking aboard an aircraft is illegal and poses a fire risk. The airline commented on the tweet, stating that it was handling the situation. A representative for the airline commented on the following on the video,
(Excerpt) Read more at simpleflying.com ...
i used to smoke right in my room- then they banned smoking indoors, but we woudl sneak smokes in the bathrooms anyways later on- now you can’t even light up anywhere on the grounds-
I’ve heard that ob/gyns in the ‘60s had ashtrays in the waiting rooms for the expectant mommies who enjoyed their Winstons and Salems.
I remember Alitalia stewardesses smoking during the flight in the ‘90s.
That is true…..and my MD had an ashtray on the desk in his office.
.
Fly private and you can do whatever you want. Really. I’ve had to have cleaning crews come to the ramp to clean for two days. Drinking binge vomit from filthy rich college chancellors, bong water from textile executives, thrown pitchers of skim milk (rock bands have ultra low calorie meals to keep their figures), wings and hot sauce from seats, bullets and guns left behind, porn magazines if every taste, products of conception on the seats, cigarette butts put out on the floor, chewing tobacco spit bottles spilled on the carpets, jerry-curl stains out of the headrests, to name a small sampling.
Didn’t people used to light up on planes regularly? How Soviet to make hay of this!
a fire risk? how old is the author? 16?
How many planes went down caused by smoking?
That fire was from the rear lavatory and the cause was never determined. There had been multiple instances in the aircraft's maintaince history of the circuit breakers tripping which indicates there was a wiring problem in the lavatory, probably from the pump that powered the old style aircraft lavatories. There's nothing that indicates the fire was from someone smoking, it was most likely from an arcing wire.
“I remember the days when smoking was allowed on planes and the armrests had built-in ashtrays. Remember the light that would come on and say “Smoking Allowed” after the plane was airborne for a few minutes? The No Smoking light would come on when the plane was approaching the airport. “
EXACTLY! I have smoked on planes.
Should have just dropped to 10,000 feet and thrown him out.
Man....smokin’ a Dunhill red, drinkin’ a gin and tonic while flying across the country....damn the people that put an end to that.
I was a first class passenger on a JAL flight to Narita in the early 90’s. They only allowed smoking in the regular passenger section at the time. Most of First class and Business class emptied 10 minutes into the flight as the chain smoking began. Forget moving in the aisles to the rear of the plane. The stewardesses almost had to go full ninja to get them back in their seats so they could serve food. It didn’t matter where you were in the plane, you were smoking too. I asked for a lemon slice, and rubbed it under my nose so I could go to sleep without smelling tobacco. ( I later saw the stewardess and her coworkers copy me and they gave me big smiles and a whole bunch of mini bottles as I left the plane).
This also happened about 10 years ago on a flight my sister was on that was departing Vegas. Someone pulled out a cigarette and started to light it. Everyone around them went, “What? Stop!” and the person immediately put it out. No repercussions.
OK. JimRob needs a follow option so I can see your future posts lol.
https://curtis-mathes.com/apps/blog/show/4980484
From this post, while there were wastepaper baskets that would occasionally catch fire, this fire was likely not caused by a passanger smoking.
Do you have a source to the contrary?
I can remember flying on a plane when people could do that legally.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.