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Women try to open door mid-flight
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, 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? |
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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. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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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. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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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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Women try to open door mid-flight
"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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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 |
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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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Women try to open door mid-flight
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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michaelnewpoort happy with his copy paste
Runge12 blabbles: [...] "The plane is cruising at 30K feet...scRunge opens the door..." ;-) -- Best Greg " I find Greg Morrow lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to claim that we are some kind of comedy team turns my stomach." - "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking "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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michaelnewpoort happy with his copy paste
On 28 Jul, 20:30, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote: Runge12 blabbles: [...] "The plane is cruising at 30K feet...scRunge opens the door..." ;-) -- Best Greg its the only way he can get a blow job.... |
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