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- ztiworoh, on 05/07/2008, -4/+76"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"
- Jonjonjonny, on 05/07/2008, -4/+62"Joey, you ever seen a grown man naked?"
- DeskFlyer, on 05/07/2008, -3/+50Buried as sensational fiction from the Daily Mail.
- DesertDude, on 05/07/2008, -2/+46Buried as "Daily Mail".
- sfacets, on 05/07/2008, -2/+40The Daily Mail.
- GeorgeStone2, on 05/07/2008, -0/+18Terrified passengers claim their Daily Mail had to dodge another Daily Mail by suddenly Daily Mail Daily Mail because their pilot was Daily Mail to a boy in the cockpit. The pilot of the flight to Daily Mail suddenly pitched left at Daily Mail and the crew Daily Mail announced the Daily Mail, with 143 passengers, had got "too close" to another Daily Mail
- angusm, on 05/07/2008, -1/+19It could have been worse. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
- getbusylivin, on 05/07/2008, -3/+20"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
- blaze03, on 05/07/2008, -0/+17I like how "cockpit" is censored if you're not logged in. It was really confusing trying to fill in possibilities for *****
- dsmx, on 05/07/2008, -0/+15Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
- mstibbe, on 05/07/2008, -0/+14"suddenly climbing 10,000ft" Even at a 2000 feet per minute, this climb would take five minutes. Hardly sudden. And then there's the odd claim that the plane suddenly pitched left flying at 33,000 feet. Either it was at 33,000 feet (a reasonable cruise altitude) and turned or it climbed 10,000 feet to get to 33,000 feet; but not both. I wonder if the reporter even spoke to a pilot or someone with air traffic experience.
- TheDiceMan, on 05/07/2008, -1/+14***** Daily Mail! If it wasn't bad enough that this paper existed in the real world - it's here ***** up my chi in the virtual world, almost every day on Digg?!
Enough is enough - inactive, on 05/07/2008, -1/+11Some guys still like showing kids the ***** pit. They aren't pilots though.
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -0/+9The Daily mail is an ignorant hate rag, and is one step away from the BNP in its outlook. Its not about cool, but hell if it is fine.
- domokunt, on 05/07/2008, -1/+10And for saying "A380" in the description,
- gjokkel, on 05/07/2008, -0/+9Air France has no A380s yet. It was an A320.
The sudden altitude change due to projected collision course is quite common in a crowded airspace like Europe or the US East Coast. It has nothing to do with the boy's (allegedly illegal) visit to the cockpit. - blacktriangle, on 05/07/2008, -0/+8Tower : Flight 2-0-9er, you're cleared for take off.
Oever : Roger!
Murdock : Huh?
Tower : L.A. departure frequency 1-2-3 point 9er.
Oever : Roger!
Murdock : Huh?
: Re-quest Vector, over!
Oever : What?
Tower : 2-0-9er clear for vector 2-3-4.
Murdock : We have clearance Clarence.
Oever : Roger, Roger. What's our Vector Victor?
Tower : Tower's radio clearance, over!
Oever : That's Clarence Oever! Oever.
Tower : Roger.
Murdock : Huh?
Tower : Roger, over.
Murdock : Huh?
Oever : Huh? - Wacer, on 05/07/2008, -0/+8The comments from the site where this story comes from has people saying that France doesn't even have this type of jet. Others on here apparently don't like daily mail. Two different sites and both have a majority that don't believe it doesn't help the credibility of this story.
- SeaweedWater, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7Was he impressed?
- Azerael, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7The Daily Mail is never running low on stories - they make them up themselves!
- cha5e, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7Agreed!
1) Air France does not have any A380s in its fleet.
2) Aircraft at cruising altitude are spaced vertically at 1,000-foot intervals. To avoid a collision, Air Traffic Control could certainly ask a plane to climb or descend 1,000 feet, but never 10,000. That's like saying the 3rd floor bathroom is full, so you'll go the the 13th floor...no, you'd go to the 4th or 2nd floor. - fluxboxuk, on 05/07/2008, -1/+7Mr Robinson sounds like a chav and the daily mail is just full of crap, buried for combination of chavy crap
- mjesales, on 05/07/2008, -6/+12lol. I remember when they used to show kids the ***** pit in the usa... espeically if it was your first flight.
- ByteGuerilla, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5No kidding. I read this story in a newspaper with some trustworthiness and 'barely misses' doesn't enter into it. They got too close, and had to climb, but the Daily Mail is painting this like it was Robert Freeman flying between the two German fighters in that episode of the Boondocks with Mo' Guns's eulogy.
- blergle, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5Let this be a lesson to pilots - allowing children into cockpits will cause other planes to head in your direction.
Or could it simply be this would have happened anyway?
IIRC the Airbus is fly by wire with auto collision avoidance. - BeerRules, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5I was listening to twit one time when someone on there said that the Daily Mail to Londoners was like the tabloids here in the U.S. Seriously this makes me wonder about the quality of diggers that this crap not only make digg but makes the front page.
- JMScheib, on 05/07/2008, -2/+7Joey, do you like gladiator movies?
- kotatsu, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Daily Mail = hate filled sensationalist ultra right wing pro-racist neo-con gutter press rag.
And yet here we are, with YET ANOTHER Daily Hail story on Digg. I'm beginning to think the DIGG readership has suddenly turned into neo-nazis. - cha5e, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Oops, disregard my 1st point. The article said A320, which Air France has. It was the digg submitter who incorrectly said A380.
- rentmitchum, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4That headline is ripe for funny comments.
- corryface, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4the daily mail must have been running low on stories.
- monoa, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nick_angel/200 ...
- daizaru, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3I love the image "Horrified: Passenger Shaun Robinson" but it's like a guy with a big smile on his face.
- piwy, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Uh no, this article is very weird if you know about aviation. Visits to the cockpit are not banned everywhere (or enforced anyways). Passengers for some reason only produces one interview for the paper, and if it was ATC that made him climb he probably was way off the other plane.
Hell might've even been an ATC error that had to be corrected immediately and these people are pegging it on the pilot.
And the biggest BS here is that you don't climb 10.000 ft to evade other planes. Did he have to evade 9 other planes or something? Planes are spaced 1000ft from each other by ATC. - GrantTheGr8, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Quantum physics.
- joebob793, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2This one sure sounded like it. The passengers crying "oh my it must have been the pilot's fault!"
Uh... airplanes have lots of sensors that tell you where you're aiming, and if you're off course. So this man could not have just been winging it back and forth and 'all of a sudden' on a collision course. I would check with ATC for who's to blame...
but like you said... Daily Mail - Rapter09, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2"Another passenger, from Manchester, who declined to be named, said: "They took the kid in there and they're not supposed to since 9/11. It was a shock to see that first of all."
*sigh*
When my father was a child and was flying my grandfather took him to the cockpit to watch the plane, at the allowance of the pilot, of course, my grandfather wasn't a pilot. My uncle went too. My grandfather used to tell me tons of stories like this. Asking police officers for rides, firefighters in fire trucks. When I was just 10 or 11 years old my family returned to their original place of residence in Hamilton, Ontario - up on the hill. We walked up to their old house (which had long since been bought and lived in by other occupants for over 30 years, now) and the couple living there even let us in so my grandparents could show me the house they lived in for so long and that my father grew up in.
Couldn't imagine doing anything like that nowadays. I couldn't imagine being able to do that for my kids, and I don't suspect I'll ever be able to. The governments fear trickles down to the hearts and minds of the people, and we become a closed society. I'll never be able to take my son or daughter flying and have them look out the cockpit with the pilots. That's sort of heartbreaking to me. - GeorgeStone2, on 05/07/2008, -2/+4Terrified passengers claim their plane had to dodge another jet by suddenly climbing 10,000ft because their pilot was "showing off" to a boy in the NUDE. The pilot of the flight to Paris suddenly pitched left at 33,000ft and the crew allegedly announced the Airbus A380, with 143 passengers, had got "too close" to another plane.
- Jyaif, on 05/07/2008, -1/+3Shaun Robinson = dick.
I hope he will google himself. - Le3f, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Back in the day was wayyy better indeed... chillin in the cockpit = way more entertaining than the crappy in flight movies.
- Biks, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Let's see who else quotes "Airplane" without even bothering to scan the other comments.
- rootbeerinacan, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2It's an A320, not an A380.....
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2I just want you to know, we are all counting on you.
- eq2s, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Yes.
"He had a big smile on his face when he came out and the steward ruffled his hair and took him back to his seat." - directrix13, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Yeah, and why would they suddenly need to climb 10,000 feet? Last I checked aircraft don't have a 2 mile diameter.
- acdcfanbill, on 05/07/2008, -3/+4Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
- bxblox, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1That was partially the manufacturers fault.
- GeorgeStone2, on 05/07/2008, -3/+4Terrified passengers claim their plane had to dodge another jet by suddenly climbing 10,000ft because their pilot was "showing off" to a boy in the BATHROOM. The pilot of the flight to Paris suddenly pitched left at 33,000ft and the crew allegedly announced the Airbus A380, with 143 passengers, had got "too close" to another plane.
- joker10687, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Wow I didn't know "Mr. Swirl" was a pilot too... We found him!
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