What is wrong with some people?!

[Cozzer]

I give you two totally different BBC links, to make you wonder if (1) is it catching, or (2) are we all doomed?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67294809



Answers on a plain postcard, please, to .....

 

[artie]

What's happening in the vid?

 

[Adam W.]

What's happening in the vid?

Someone's standing in front of a plane.

 

[Cozzer]

Someone's standing in front of a plane.

She'd arrived too late at check-in, so thought she'd run out on the tarmac and shout at the Qantas captain so he'd let her on the aircraft....
And no, that's not a joke.
That's exactly what's happening.

 

[Spectric]

I give you two totally different BBC links, to make you wonder if (1) is it catching, or (2) are we all doomed?

Have you only just caught on that we are now well into devolution and the age of the cotton wool wrapped society .

 

[Jacob]

She'd arrived too late at check-in, so thought she'd run out on the tarmac and shout at the Qantas captain so he'd let her on the aircraft....
And no, that's not a joke.
That's exactly what's happening.

Yebbut so what? A hopeless venture but she must be a bold sort of lass! And a bit of a dope.
Not surprised that M&S had 2nd thoughts. Obviously an innocent mistake; they did the photos some time ago but they do look like burning Palestinian flags.
Doesn't seem to be much of an issue in either case - woss the problem? I see nothing of interest.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

Don't often agree with Jacob - but in this case we are as one!

 

[deema]

Shame on M&S for pulling the advert and apologising. Italy, Mexico, Hungary and Bulgaria off the top of my head all have the same colours in their national flags.
The woman silly person could have so easily been ingested into a fan, she was so very lucky.

 

[Jameshow]

Shame on M&S for pulling the advert and apologising. Italy, Mexico, Hungary and Bulgaria off the top of my head all have the same colours in their national flags.
The woman silly person could have so easily been ingested into a fan, she was so very lucky.

Has that ever happen someone being sucked into a turbo fan / jet?!

 

[Jacob]

Has that ever happen someone being sucked into a turbo fan / jet?!

Yes all the time. It makes a horrible mess all over the run way.
Even worse with prop driven - stuff goes everywhere and take-off gets delayed whilst they clean the windows etc.
That's why I've give up flying.

 

[Jacob]

Shame on M&S for pulling the advert and apologising. Italy, Mexico, Hungary and Bulgaria off the top of my head all have the same colours in their national flags.

Maybe you haven't been watching the news lately?

 

[danst96]

Has that ever happen someone being sucked into a turbo fan / jet?!

It's not very common but two cases of it happening this year. One was intentional, the other I believe they are not certain.

Even worse with prop driven - stuff goes everywhere and take-off gets delayed whilst they clean the windows etc.
That's why I've give up flying.

I'm pretty confident in saying that if a turbo or a prop plane hits a human, there will be more than a delay in taking off, that plane would be taken out of service immediately for checks and maintenance. For a jet it would cause significant damage to the engine.

The chances of it happening are almost zero unless intentional or with dumbasses like the video above

 

[artie]

She'd arrived too late at check-in, so thought she'd run out on the tarmac and shout at the Qantas captain so he'd let her on the aircraft....

Must've been a pretty small airport.

 

[AES]

Has that ever happen someone being sucked into a turbo fan / jet?!

YES!

 

[AES]

It's not very common but two cases of it happening this year. One was intentional, the other I believe they are not certain.



I'm pretty confident in saying that if a turbo or a prop plane hits a human, there will be more than a delay in taking off, that plane would be taken out of service immediately for checks and maintenance. For a jet it would cause significant damage to the engine.

The chances of it happening are almost zero unless intentional or with dumbasses like the video above

Correct.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Must've been a pretty small airport.

My mother and I got marched across the runway to the plane in Faro with bayonets in our backs just after the Portuguese revolution in 1974.

 

[Scruples]

Companies cannot get away with underlying symbolism these days. And rightly so, I suppose.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

So they shouldn't use colours. Or presumably black or white either.

 

[MikeJhn]

I remember a few years back that RR used to test their turbo fans by throwing chickens into the rotating blades, the story goes that the Americans tried this with their engines and it destroyed them, they asked RR what they where doing wrong and RR asked if they had defrosted the chickens first.

 

[Blackswanwood]

It's a logical decision from M&S. Undoubtedly there was no intention to represent any flag but if it's going to be contentious to some and remind people of the awful situation in the Middle East don't get involved in the complexities - just pull it and replace with something that doesn't. Jacob is right - nothing to see here - move on!