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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 19, 2014 19:04:48 GMT 12
(click on the picture to read the news story)
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jul 11, 2015 17:00:39 GMT 12
from Fairfax NZ....Mid-flight fights in the not-so-friendly skiesWith personal space in short supply, a reclined seat may be all it takes to start a mid-flight fight.12:40PM - Friday, 10 July 2015At 30,000 feet, when it comes to reclining seats, it's every man and woman for themselves.“NO ONE reclines their seat between here and New Zealand,” Shane Diedrichs said following his flight from Wellington to Brisbane.
Unfortunately, they do.
Diedrichs, 38, took umbrage when the man in front of him reclined his seat shortly after take-off, and refused to move it forward again.
The mid-air spat escalated and Diedrichs was later ordered by the Brisbane Magistrates Court to pay AU$600 (NZ$664) for “offensive and disorderly behaviour”.
There are many theories about people claiming to experience heightened emotions during flying. Perhaps this is why people get so wound up over something as small (literally) as in-flight leg room.
In June, an Australian mother lodged a formal complaint with Jetstar after another passenger struck her 12-month-old child “on purpose” with a reclining seat. The passenger “lost it” after about half an hour of the toddler “tapping” on the tray table, the mother said.
Glaring and telling the wee girl to “stop that tapping” didn't work, so the woman's next move was to push her seat back as quickly as possible, slamming the girl in the noggin.
A full-on brawl between a group of women on Air China flight CA433 from Chongqing to Hong Kong almost caused a mid-air emergency. The brawl started after two passengers complained to another about her crying baby. The mother responded angrily, and the women retaliated by reclining their seats as far as they would go. Suddenly, “all hell broke loose”.A catfight on China Air CA433. Click on the picture to view the original Twitter post.A fight between two passengers on a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Denver resulted in the plane having to divert to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
In this case, the argument became heated when one passenger pulled out a Knee Defender. Chicago Police and TSA officers met the flight and spoke to the passengers — a man and a woman, both aged 48 — and “deemed it a customer service issue”.
A man on a Delta Airlines flight from New York LaGuardia to West Palm Beach recounted how when the woman next to him reclined her seat, the woman behind “started screaming and swearing”. It turned out the woman behind had been trying to sleep on the tray table.
Who could forget the time a drunk, semi-naked man on a flight from Riga, the capital of Latvia, to Dublin, Ireland, started punching walls?
His problem was not so much with another passenger as with his surroundings, but his actions caused the plane to make an unscheduled stop at Aarhus Airport in Denmark.www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/70129733/midflight-fights-in-the-notsofriendly-skies
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 16, 2016 15:09:42 GMT 12
Fortunately, we don't tend to see this in New Zealand....
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Dec 17, 2016 0:47:32 GMT 12
Fortunately, we don't tend to see this in New Zealand.... that's a lot of ballast being removed
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 17, 2016 7:16:08 GMT 12
Yep....the Captain would have been able to revise the V1 speed upwards and the V2 speed downwards.
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