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To: nickcarraway

Airbus doesn’t have cup holders in the cockpit?


4 posted on 09/05/2025 6:27:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly.


7 posted on 09/05/2025 6:28:15 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin; SkyDancer; nickcarraway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)

The film’s storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster.
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To maintain flight, McBane orders the first engine restarted. Then he notices that the coffee cup on the console spilled during the turbulence of the first engine shut-down. He opens the console’s access panel and finds that coffee seeped in, short-circuiting the wiring and causing both the radio failure and a false fire warning. In reality both the original and test flights still had a fully functioning second engine, enough to prevent the crash.


9 posted on 09/05/2025 6:35:51 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

This is OUTRAGEOUS!!

$5 for a cup of coffee ☕??!!


10 posted on 09/05/2025 6:36:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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