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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:17 PM Original message |
WaPo: Airlines, European officials urge end to flight restrictions |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. "overreacted to the threat posed to jet engines" |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. People are dying because of this. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oh. They can just fly under it? Why weren't they doing that all along? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Overreaction, that's why. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I disagreed with the assesment of overreaction. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 09:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. They can fly under the cloud. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. From OP...200 mi from where ash was predicted to end...oops |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. No plane has ever crashed because of volcanic ash. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Let's keep it that way. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. We won't do it by hiding. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I've never crashed my car while driving drunk either, not hiding by avoiding driving drunk though |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Just hide under your bed and be done with it. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Come on over, let's have a few and go out for a quick drive |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Now you're equating drunk driving with flying under a cloud. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. You should get on one of those planes. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I have flown under far worse conditions. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. And barefoot. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. explain? Are you a pilot? Are you willing to put the lives of your passengers |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. It's plain English. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. So flying through ash that is 200 mi away from where it was predicted isn't dangerous? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Since we can track it exactly, no. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Your credentials? And a link to post above re "track it exactly" |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. You're not uppity, you're just not listening. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:56 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. At what altitude? The lower they fly the less time they have to restart |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. The cloud is fairly high. I think you can trust the pilots. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 11:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Pilots make wrong decisions too. Ash and aircraft engines don't mix |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. What part of 'under' are you missing? |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 11:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. The lower you fly the less time you have to find a place to land and/or |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:01 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Pilots are professionals. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:02 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I'm a pilot. What are you? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:09 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Not afraid of risk. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:10 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. uh huh. just another keyboard warrior |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:12 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. PS. Change careers. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:14 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Why don't you ever answer any of the questions posed to you? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:17 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Why are you telling people to distrust pilots? |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:23 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I'm not and you're still not answering any questions. It's so easy for you |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:29 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Yes, you are. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:32 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. One thing you have a lot of is bravado. BTW it's not the pilots that are |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:34 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. The pilots are OBJECTING to the restrictions, |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:35 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. So very easy for you to say....why don't you change jobs? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:36 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. No air rage please. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:37 AM Response to Reply #46 |
47. It's airlines, not the pilots, that are protesting this. Air rage? |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:54 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. No,it's the pilots. Out. |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 08:01 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. NATO jets damaged by volcanic ash |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #32 |
51. What about flying under the ash?"There is no altitude that is completely safe below 11,000m." |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Well... |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Yes, here is his story. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Yep but a BA passenger plane lost all four engines |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-18-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Link needs a period at end of it. Thanks for the link, good to see reporting. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 08:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
50. Ding ding |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
52. In a battle between safety and commerce, commerce will win every time.... |
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