Aviation Ping!.
Why is there a ‘crack’ into the cargo hold?...........
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the notion of a “crack” in the floor of the passenger cabin that would be large enough for a laptop to slip through. Some kind of cap against the wall of the cabin? Maybe I could see small, thin phone slipping into such a gap... but a laptop? Wow. Very weird.
Holy Crap!!!!!
Or, better said
Holy Crack!!!
Well....... Will this eventually be blamed on all of those racist Crackers!
Was it one of those super slim laptops?
Will they now ban any super slim laptops?
If there are any cracks between the liquor cabinet and the last row of seats, I want that seat!
Purely medicinal, of course.
One thing we do right, FAA and pilots, error on the side of caution.
DO NOT second guess a safety decision like this.
If a pilot declares an emergency or decides to abort a trip and it is just 1% feasible that this is a viable danger/risk, let it go. His call.
Good decision by the pilot.
Sooo, there’s a crack in the floor, open to the cargo hold, but it’s the *laptop* that threatened the airworthiness?!? ✈
"Friends...how we happened to come to America is a great story. But I don't tell that. When we first started out, we got-a no idea you give us this-a grand reception. We donna deserve it. And when I say we donna deserve it, believe me, I know what I'm a-talkin' about...So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time we started, we get-a halfway across when we run out-a gasoline and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much gasoline. This time we-a just about to land - maybe three feet - when whaddya think? We run out-a gasoline again and a-back we go again to get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Well, we get-a halfway over when what-a you think-a happened? We forgot-a the aeroplane. So we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Then I get-a a great idea. We no take-a gasoline. We no take-a the aeroplane. We take a steamship. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean."
Considering cargo holds on airlines are pressurized at about 80% of cabin pressure that kind of crack (actually I’m guessing a gap) would be a fairly large leak for the cabin pressure.
Were they past the midpoint? I’ve never understood why they consider flying to their origin safer than the destination. Maybe they want to crash on home turf.