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  #11  
Old July 28th, 2008, 03:29 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
poldy
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight

In article
,
kerPLUNK wrote:

The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in
their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.


What security staff?



They were arrested and released after two hours, Frankfurt police
said.

The flight was on its way from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester
when the incident happened on Wednesday.


Wouldn't stopping in Frankfurt require a detour if the flight is from
Greece to Manchester? Maybe it wasn't a direct flight.

Seems like it would have been just a couple of hours more for the flight
to arrive at Manchester, instead of landing at Frankfurt.

Who covers the cost of landing and taking off again?
  #12  
Old July 28th, 2008, 04:02 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
Hatunen
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:29:17 -0700, poldy wrote:

In article
,
kerPLUNK wrote:

The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in
their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.


What security staff?


Shhhh...

If we told you we'd have to kill you.

They were arrested and released after two hours, Frankfurt police
said.

The flight was on its way from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester
when the incident happened on Wednesday.


Wouldn't stopping in Frankfurt require a detour if the flight is from
Greece to Manchester? Maybe it wasn't a direct flight.


Planes do not necessarily fly a straight line of geodesic,
especilal not over crowded air space.

In any case you should have looked at a map before posting;
Frankfurt is on an almost straight line between Greece and
anchester.

Seems like it would have been just a couple of hours more for the flight
to arrive at Manchester, instead of landing at Frankfurt.


When there's any kind of threat to an airliner it lands as soon
as possible.

Who covers the cost of landing and taking off again?


The airline wants to send the bill to the women.

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  #13  
Old July 28th, 2008, 04:25 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
Hatunen
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight


Let me try this again and clean it up a bit. Please ignore
previous similar post...

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:29:17 -0700, poldy wrote:

In article
,
kerPLUNK wrote:

The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in
their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.


What security staff?


Shhhh...

If we told you we'd have to kill you.

They were arrested and released after two hours, Frankfurt police
said.

The flight was on its way from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester
when the incident happened on Wednesday.


Wouldn't stopping in Frankfurt require a detour if the flight is from
Greece to Manchester? Maybe it wasn't a direct flight.


Planes do not necessarily fly a straight line or geodesic,
especially not over crowded air space.

In any case you should have looked at a map before posting;
Frankfurt is on an almost straight line between Greece and
Manchester.

Seems like it would have been just a couple of hours more for the flight
to arrive at Manchester, instead of landing at Frankfurt.


When there's any kind of threat to an airliner it lands as soon
as possible.

Who covers the cost of landing and taking off again?


The airline wants to send the bill to the women.




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* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
  #14  
Old July 28th, 2008, 07:25 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
mrtravel[_2_]
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:

Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote:


David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*):

kerPLUNK wrote:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7527058.stm

Women try to open door mid-flight

The women allegedly became violent when they were refused more alcohol

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable legal explanation for it, but I
can't understand why they're not banged up in a German cell awaiting
trial at the moment.


Probably because the expected penalty would not be any time in prison.



OK- that's reasonable, but it's about time this kind of thing was taken
seriously. There are lots of news reports of people doing similar
things, with similarly nothing much happening to them.


What was the real danger? The door isn't coming open at 10000 meters.
So, you just have a couple of bad drunks.
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Old July 28th, 2008, 08:04 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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"mrtravel" wrote in message
...
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:

Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote:


David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*):

kerPLUNK wrote:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7527058.stm

Women try to open door mid-flight

The women allegedly became violent when they were refused more alcohol

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable legal explanation for it, but I
can't understand why they're not banged up in a German cell awaiting
trial at the moment.

Probably because the expected penalty would not be any time in prison.



OK- that's reasonable, but it's about time this kind of thing was taken
seriously. There are lots of news reports of people doing similar
things, with similarly nothing much happening to them.


What was the real danger? The door isn't coming open at 10000 meters.
So, you just have a couple of bad drunks.


It makes a largely uncomfortable experience more uncomfortable. Try to stop
defending assholes for the sake of contrarianism.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore


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Old July 28th, 2008, 09:12 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
Frank Hucklenbroich
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight

Am Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:29:17 -0700 schrieb poldy:

In article
,
kerPLUNK wrote:

The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in
their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.


What security staff?


Air Marshals?

Regards,

Frank
  #17  
Old July 28th, 2008, 01:36 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
John Kulp
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Default Women try to open door mid-flight

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:34:13 +0530, "grusl"
wrote:


"mrtravel" wrote in message
...
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:

Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote:


David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*):

kerPLUNK wrote:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7527058.stm

Women try to open door mid-flight

The women allegedly became violent when they were refused more alcohol

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable legal explanation for it, but I
can't understand why they're not banged up in a German cell awaiting
trial at the moment.

Probably because the expected penalty would not be any time in prison.


OK- that's reasonable, but it's about time this kind of thing was taken
seriously. There are lots of news reports of people doing similar
things, with similarly nothing much happening to them.


What was the real danger? The door isn't coming open at 10000 meters.
So, you just have a couple of bad drunks.


It makes a largely uncomfortable experience more uncomfortable. Try to stop
defending assholes for the sake of contrarianism.


Besides, at least one of them purportedly attacked a flight attendant
with a vodka bottle, so the prudent thing would have been to get them
off the plane.
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Old July 28th, 2008, 07:16 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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Given the report it seems likely that a custodial sentence may
be judged appropriate. Dangerous drunks who are abusive and
flout safety regulations need slapping down hard.


Perhaps at least for a time they could be put on a no-fly list, or
declared personae non grata by the countries that had a stake in the
game. Message: if you want to act like that, do it at home and see
if your own police will sit still for it.

(It should be said that such extreme behavior is so rare I've never
seen it, and I'm on an US domestic flight every other week on
average. Closest I ever came was in the concourse one night, when
someone was getting very loudly and demonstratively agitated with the
gate agent. Our plane was an hour or so late due to weather
elsewhere. He seemed to think the gate agent had some power over
this, and would exercise it if only she knew how important he was,
which fact he could communicate if loud and furious enough.

Perhaps feeling many pairs of eyes upon him -- if memory serves,
including those of a largish baggage handler who'd come up the jetway
to see what the fuss was about -- he settled for giving a trash can a
good kick as he stormed out, announcing that he was headed for the
ticket counter to speak to her manager. We saw no more of him.
Whether he was mollified by customer service personnel, dragged off
by the police, or suddenly bathed in a shaft of light and assumed
bodily into busy important people heaven we know not.)

--Joe
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Old July 28th, 2008, 07:30 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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Runge12 blabbles:


[...]


"The plane is cruising at 30K feet...scRunge opens the door..."

;-)


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"kerPLUNK" a écrit dans le message de
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7527058.stm

Women try to open door mid-flight

The women allegedly became violent when they were refused more alcohol

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after two
British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight, police have said.

The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in
their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.

They were arrested and released after two hours, Frankfurt police
said.

The flight was on its way from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester
when the incident happened on Wednesday.

Hartmut Scherer, a spokesman for police at Frankfurt International
Airport, said the women had become violent with flight attendants
because they were refused more alcohol.

The 26-year-old woman is reported to have tried to strike a flight
attendant with a vodka bottle after the crew refused to serve the pair
any more alcohol.

"Both the women drunk a lot of alcohol on the plane and it was a risk
because they made some trouble," said Mr Scherer.

The incident happened at an altitude of 10,000 metres, Reuters news
agency reported.

Two-hour delay

Mr Scherer said the captain had thought the best option would be to
make an unscheduled stop in Frankfurt and remove the women from the
plane.

"They wanted to open a door in the plane but that was not possible and
someone from the security held them in their seats until the landing,"
he said.

The women face charges of grievous bodily harm and violating air
traffic regulations, according to Reuters.

The plane later flew on to Manchester after a two-hour delay.

Meanwhile, the women were questioned by police but released and
allowed to return to the UK.

German media had reported that the airline would charge the pair for
the cost of the diversion.

But Mr Scherer said police were deciding whether to press charges,
adding that the women could also be fined or forced to pay
compensation.




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Old July 28th, 2008, 07:38 PM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air
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On 28 Jul, 20:30, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote:
Runge12 blabbles:



[...]

"The plane is cruising at 30K feet...scRunge opens the door..."

;-)

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its the only way he can get a blow job....
 




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