Posted on 01/27/2024 3:21:55 PM PST by Texan4Life
“Around 11:37 a.m., a Mexican airline reported the beginning of a disturbance due to passenger discontent on an Aeroméxico flight AM672,” according to the report. “The flight had been due to lift off at 8:45 a.m. Thursday, but because of a maintenance alert on the plane, the captain had to return to the gate for the required maintenance.”
“The passengers were unhappy and one of them opened the emergency door and stepped out on the wing,” the report said. The airport said the man had been turned over to police.
But dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow passengers said he acted “to protect everyone, with the support of everyone.”
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I’m not sure I’ll ever fly again. Just seems like a bad idea for a thousand reasons.
If this is true, the airline needs to be held accountable. You hear this kind of thing all the time, and to me, it's no different than a kidnapping. The airlines can cry "security" all they want but it's unconscionable that people can be held on a plane for hours on end without access to water, food or fresh air.
Hey their planes and rules approved by the FAA, you don’t like it, don’t fly. Wouldn’t catch me in one of those death traps for all the tea in China.
Flying today is like being on a crowded subway, BUT you only can get on after they dig through your stuff and pat you down, pretending they’re protecting you from terrorism. You wait around for hours, get separated from your bags that might get lost by the airlines, usually have to pay a bunch to park a car, and are trapped in a terminal with over priced trash food. God forbid you get upset and say anything, then all your worthless security personnel have something to do!
Air travel has degenerated to an uncomfortable and expensive experience.
In flight?!
Sadly, this is what the elitists and globalists want.
They have been trying to restrict our movements for decades now through other means and I think they cannot outright ban people from flying, but by making sure the plane trip is unsafe and/or miserable (think TSA) they can get people to voluntarily give up flying.
Someone probably farted
I’m of a split mind here.
On the one hand, to me being stuck on a stationary aircraft whose climate control systems can’t keep up (not unusual for an airplane relying on the APU and not the main engines in flight) is a horrible situation. At some point, just let the poor people off back into the damn terminal!
On the other hand, I can’t really condone some rando walking on the wind. Some parts of the wing can take it, but others *WILL* be damaged by someone walking on them, requiring inspection and a replacement aircraft.
So I guess, yeah: opening the emergency exit for some damn air after hours of being trapped in an oven is something I can sympathize with, or even approve of. But walking on the wing just caused further (necessary from a safety standpoint) delays.
Just carefully read the original post please.
I was joking….
Unless you are a "migrating Immigrant". No ID required to board a flight.
“Air travel has degenerated to an uncomfortable and expensive experience.”
That actually applies to every aspect of life these days...
When flying, you become a prisoner. If the airline fails to provide air, water, or bathroom, so be it.
My wife and I have told our siblings, cousins and friends across this country, we are not flying anywhere, for the rest of our lives.
Not for funerals, hospice and/or whatever.
A younger friend recently flew out to say goodbye and how much we and another couple meant to him.
He cancelled, his plane ride back to Floriduh and caught a train back to his home area.
A younger relative/first cousin, recently died from a long time illness. I apologized to his new widow about not coming to his funeral. She told me that 3 cousins, 2 brother’s and 2 of her brothers did not fly back for the funeral.
Passenger aircraft have gotten super energy efficient, but airports have gone the other direction. The carbon footprint of the DEI government run portion of air travel now exceeds that of the flying.
“I’m not sure I’ll ever fly again. Just seems like a bad idea for a thousand reasons.”
I WILL NOT!
F the airline Nazis.
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