• frickineh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s all well and good, but emergency landings for any reason are the worst. At best, it’s a huge inconvenience. I had one a few years back because a passenger was acting like an asshole, and it cost a full day of my limited vacation, so I’d really rather not have one even if the plane is safe enough for them to land.

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      8 months ago

      I dunno. I’d say crashes are worse than emergency landings. But then again, I haven’t had the experience of an emergency landing, like you have. So I might be in the wrong here.

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        8 months ago

        Did I say they weren’t? My point was that emergency landings aren’t a great time and I’d rather not have one, not that they’re on the level of a crash. It’d just be nice to not have either of those things.

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                8 months ago

                Do you know what an emergency landing does? It means there are now hundreds of people stuck in an airport they’re not supposed to be in, so airline staff then have to try to find spots for them on other flights that are often full, if not overbooked, which causes a domino effect that can last days. It means people miss connections, so they have to figure those out, too. The flight I was on, someone missed their kid’s wedding because it took so long to get them to their destination. It made airport staff’s next 24 hours hell. Oh, and the woman who caused it lost her job and had to pay tens of thousands in fines because it’s taken that seriously. It’s not just, “oopsie, well let’s get a different plane and reboard all the same people.”

                It’s not dramatic to say that emergency landings suck, and everyone should want to avoid them. And if Boeing planes are having that many issues, that’s a problem. Guarantee you that the airline doesn’t think it’s ok, nor do any of the people on that flight.

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                  8 months ago

                  Yet calling them the “worst” is. You only said that to get engagement about your sad story. Going on a rant about it when you get a different type of engagement you hoped for is pretty dramatic.

                  I really advise you to think about what you write before posting. Yes you had a bad experience. No it wasn’t the worst thing in the world, not even close.

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                    8 months ago

                    Are you kidding? You’ve never heard anyone say, “that was the worst,” and mean that it sucked, not that it was the literal worst thing they’ve ever experienced? I can honestly say no one has ever taken that phrase that literally before, and it’s kind of fascinating to see someone who doesn’t appear to understand how human speech works, but is so confident about it anyway. I bet people in real life find that really fun.