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Urban.
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Want to hear about peoples airplane stories such as the person(s) that sit next to them, the crew or the overall flight.
Nov 21 2012 8:57PM
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llambert
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Nov 25 2012 8:53PM
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NinetyFour
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Ehhhh I don't know about that. Humans are fragile, but in my time, in my dads time, and in my grandpa's time, we've never heard of a shoulder harness tearing someone in half in a crash. It can forsure lacerate you if the impact is hard enough, but not cut you in half.

Shoulder harnesses don't have the best mounting mechanisms either.

http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public//PubFullText/RTO/EN/RTO-EN-HFM-113///EN-HFM-113-03.pdf

It even talks about fatal injuries; with and without single shoulder harnesses in there, and i think that 76% of the time they had found shoulder harnesses to fail.

The alternative to not wearing a chest belt, single or double is slamming your face into the control yoke.

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Cessna has those covers on the centre and they are soft and squishy to take up impact forces, but the fact is is that the handles on the yoke simply aren't wide enough, so you are pretty much guaranteed to smash your face down onto that, and I've met a a dude who was done lucky enough to survive. He had steel plates in his head because of multiple skull fractures and a glass eye. Not cool at all.
Nov 25 2012 9:55PM
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Rachy
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My dad said that in situations where there is a lap belt and a shoulder harness, the lap belt is often attached to the bottom of the plane with the shoulder harness attached to the top. This isn't the case with all small crafts, but he's seen it more than once and says that these are the most disturbing crashes.

He worked on one of these where a woman had been pregnant.

I'm just listening to my dad who works on a new plane pretty much every week. He just tells me if I'm ever going down in a plane crash, to take off my shoulder harness if it's attached to the top of the plane. He doesn't want to deal with it.
Nov 25 2012 10:49PM
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whoa-dere
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a plane crash happens every week?
Nov 25 2012 10:56PM
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49566738265
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That's incredibly stupid.

If the forces are great enough to rip the plane horizontally down the fuselage, you're toast anyway. Slamming your head into a solid object because you aren't strapped in is certainly going to cause serious and maybe fatal damage as well.

Your dad isn't qualified to discount the billions of dollars of research spent on aviation safety in the last 100 years. Of that I can be certain.
Nov 25 2012 10:58PM
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Rachy
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before the economy crash, their company picked up 1 - 3 small air crafts a week. There are only 3 companies in the US that does what he does.

And I didn't say I wasn't going to die, I was saying when I know I'm going, my dad told me to undo my seatbelt so he doesn't have to look at me torn in 2... he'll still be dealing with dead daughter, but at least wont have to look at my intestines. Apparently I need to be significantly more graphic in my explanations rather than leaving things up to the mind. My dad tells me all about the crashes he works on. Many the people walk away from. But the ones that are bad are pretty much always really bad. The ones that he hates the most are the ones with a specific seatbelt design. Oh, and he does work with insurance companies as well figuring out what went wrong... Sometimes hundreds of hours of design work and testing doesn't prevent an oversight.

Long story short, if you'd like really graphic crashed airplane stories, I'll happily share. My father has been sharing them with me for about 10 years now.
Nov 25 2012 11:52PM
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sneezin
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do share
Nov 26 2012 4:51AM
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49566738265
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Considering your chances of death are higher without a harness, I'd advise my daughter to do everything possible to survive a crash rather than input my own opinions on what manner of dying makes me most uncomfortable.
Nov 26 2012 10:16AM
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Malcolm
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Delete your cookies or use Chromes incognito mode when you go to buy your ticket. Airline companies use your searches to jack up their prices
Nov 26 2012 11:02AM
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deleted5
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Why is your name orange it bothers me change it back.
Nov 26 2012 11:05AM
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Obi-Wan-Jenobi
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Change it to yellow.
Nov 26 2012 11:26AM
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coolflash8
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Nov 26 2012 11:28AM
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volvotom
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My dad is an engineer at Boeing and has some pretty funny stories. And some not so funny stories. He used to be on the accident investigation team. He worked on the valu jet crash in the everglades and the SwissAir crash near Nova Scotia among others.
Nov 26 2012 2:29PM
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proZach
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you can legally pack as many nips (little shots of 1.5oz liquor) into a quart (maybe a gallon, I can't remember) sized ziplock bag as you can and bring them on the plane.

they also give you free soda. so you can grab $1.50 dranks all plane ride instead of their $7 gin and tonics. money
Nov 26 2012 5:07PM
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WPoch
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not really a story, but when i am on a plane, i always seem to get the seat with the guy who tilts his chair really far back in front of me..
Nov 26 2012 5:23PM
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Urban.
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so tired of those 5 dollar shitty meals
Dec 19 2012 3:37PM
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gusestomp
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Well, I was one united airlines. I was getting my soda and as soon as a got it in my hand the plane hit one pretty gnarly turbulence and I threw the drink into the people behind me. The worst part was, the soda can was open...
Dec 19 2012 3:46PM
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Abu_Hajaar
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me too
Dec 19 2012 4:06PM
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Shireshredder
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Had a shower at 38,000 ft (Emirates A380 first class) also despite the airline being from the middles east the showers say (Max two occupants) on them ;)

Sitting in first class one time (Also Emirates, I get free first class flights) ordered a beer and every time I finished the glass the fit hostess noticed on the camera and brought a new full one down to me, ended up closing the privacy doors so i didn't have to go through Dubai security drunk as fuck.

By the way, Emirates is the best airline in the world, just sayin.
Dec 19 2012 4:08PM
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whoa-dere
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Why do you get free flights? I heard good things about Emirates, gonna try to use it this summer.

Red eye tonight legooo
Dec 19 2012 4:17PM
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Shireshredder
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My dads a Captain on the A380 at Emirates, 3 free flights a year while im at college and after that its unlimited free standby flights. Emirates are sick, best in-flight entertainment system ever (Even had some warren miller ski movies at one point) and you get free sport equipment allowance. Plus, the air hostesses are fit, always.
Dec 19 2012 4:24PM
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Urban.
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i want one of thoes..
Feb 28 2013 4:52PM
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Rajna
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Aloha Airlines Flight 243

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PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSING

Feb 28 2013 5:11PM
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Turner.
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Flew Montreal to Vancouver in the middle seat next to an old lady from Nova Scotia who had the window and some chiller from the island who had the aisle. Being an old lady I guess she was predisposed to talk to me cause of that whole grandma-grandson sort of vibe. You know what I mean? whatever.

Anyway, we sort of got to talking, like typical old lady stuff "oh where are you from, son? etc. etc." And then before we take off she goes to get her book from her bag under the seat. She's struggling a bit so I'm like k lemme help you with that and she's like yeah it's in the main pouch, thanks. I reach in a pull out the book and it's fuckin Fifty Shades of Grey in extra large print for old people. I fully wut'd, and she proceeded to pull out a magnifying glass to read the thing - large print was not doing the trick. She went to the bathroom later on and the dude next to me and I lol'd heartily about the fuckedupness of this sweet old lady reading Fifty Shades.

Later in the flight she also told me she had several inventions that would change the world, but that she couldn't tell anyone what they were because otherwise they'd get stolen. She then revealed that one of the inventions was a microchip that would be implanted in every person at birth so that they could always be tracked and that way no one would ever get lost. I didn't feel like getting in to a discussion about the implications or absurdity of that plan so I just smiled and nodded.

Also I was watching Pretty Sweet and she was getting in on it until Jack Black got naked.

Shit was hella funny, great flight.
Feb 28 2013 5:13PM
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whoa-dere
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Feb 28 2013 5:14PM
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Downtofilm
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I always have high hopes of getting some interesting sitting next to me so im not bored as fuck watching a movie, for some reason that never happens, although my moms friend upgraded me to first class awhile back, that was tight.
Mar 1 2013 12:11AM
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Brawndo_swag
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Mar 1 2013 12:13AM
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steezburgereddie
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On an overseas flight the sun was setting so the light was shining right across to the middle rows and a guy wouldn't close the blind his window. The flight attendant kept asking him to close it and he didn't say anything but "no, I like the sun".
Mar 1 2013 12:25AM
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DrZoidberg
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One time I flew, the guys at security decided to randomly search me. But like with the swap thing and whatever machine they use to analyze it. So he's like do you have any chemistry sets, explosives or something with you. I'm just like, uh no. He swabbed my hands then analyzed it. Nothing came of it, but that was a strange question to be asked.

But I love flying, if you look at my flickr there's a million photos from out airplane windows and in airports.
Mar 1 2013 12:37AM
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ChillTeenDad420
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just yesterday flying first class back from DFW to SEA I sat next to a dude probably 5'0 350 pounds. I walk on the plane, dude is just demolishing a footlong quiznos. Finishes in about 2 minutes. 2 minutes after hes done, he falls asleep, straight apnea style, wheezing and shit. His gut is literally big enough he can rest his head on it, and every time he breathes his gut swells violently and pushes his head up a couple inches until he wheezingly exhales back down again. It was pretty disturbing. He woke up about an hour into the flight and he ordered three little candian club whiskeys, straight chugged em like a thug and proceeded to ask for two of the pretzel-mix packs they give you for free in coach. He ripped em open and poured em both into his mouth at the same damn time, finished in about a minute. He fell asleep again and missed the in flight meal, bummer for him.

oh and one time flying to LAX from SEA an old guy died as we were about 20 min away from landing. Had to turn around and land in san francisco. The dude didn't have the courtesy to wait another half an hour...
Mar 1 2013 12:45AM
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Urban.
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Just cae back fro Puerto Rico. A guy was boarding with a shit saying fuck you you fucking fucks. they did not let him on the flight and had to call security to get him out of the terminal. Also SOOOOOO many people where coughing and when i got home i had bronchitis. What a way to end the Vacation.


also i saw some kid with a ON3P Hat at some fort i went to. if you come across this it would be funny as hell because i just looked at you like you where a famous person.
Mar 1 2013 6:33PM
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Aithline
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Flew to Nepal once, took 5 planes, and 57 hours. slept for only 13 of those hours, and beer was served to everyone for free on the flight from Delhi to Kathmandu. Good times.
Mar 1 2013 6:42PM
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