Comments on: Emergency Exit

By: Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:23:38 +0000

Actually I meant, “as opposed to charter/private flights”. The last three times I flew was with a charter or private pilot – and those were painless – fun even!

And I always book my ticket on the emergency exit seat. Doesn’t everyone?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:52:22 +0000

“if I flew commercial again (hoping I never have to)”

May I infer from that that you prefer flying military? (as oposed to ‘commercial’) In which case I must point out that ‘commerical’ flights have a much better safety record!

Considering what I have seen people dressed in on ‘commercial’ flights, I’m sure they would let you wear a parachute!
Make sure you’re seated in an emergency exit row though! Beating 210 people to the chase may make a parachute .. well .. just another obstacle.

Oh, and ask to be seated on the side where the wing will fall off: that gives you an unobstructed jump!

On second thought: don’t ask for that!

By: Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:23:50 +0000

🙂 I wasn’t poking fun at you – just the original author of that article. Instead of asking what caused the plane to CRASH they should have asked, “WTF – a WING fell off! Why!!?!?!”

But yes, 9 of 11 is amazing. I wonder if I flew commercial again (hoping I never have to) if they would let me wear a parachute? No? Well, that sucks!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:29:22 +0000

I indeed DO think that that’s quite a plausible inference you just made there.
Not that that causality was lost on me, btw.
I already was quite convinced that a plane that has one or more of its wings fall off during flight is not likely to set a track record for safety.
(Although, having 9 out of 11 people survive it, probably IS a record)

By: Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:08:49 +0000

Just a guess here – but do you think the cause of the crash MIGHT be the fact the wing fell off? 🙂