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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: IassaFTots on March 10, 2011, 10:04:20 AM

Title: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 10, 2011, 10:04:20 AM
Puts a bit more importance in the adage "Go Before you Leave."

http://www.click2houston.com/news/27137202/detail.html

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HOUSTON -- It is a change that affects every single airline that operates in the United States.  The federal government has ordered safety equipment be removed from 6,000 commercial passenger planes, and the Federal Aviation Administration kept the decision to do it a secret.

It is officially called Air Worthiness Directive 2011-04-09, and unlike most air worthiness directives, the FAA delayed publishing its contents online. Local 2 Investigates previously obtained a copy of the document that orders airlines to remove the emergency oxygen generators from all lavatories.
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: Evil_Conservative on March 10, 2011, 10:17:57 AM
I can say I have NEVER used a bathroom on an airplane.

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"It's a risk you take when boarding an airplane. You should know. People can die," one airline industry veteran said on condition of anonymity.

It's silly to think we pay so much for that risk too. 
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: DefiantSix on March 10, 2011, 10:21:37 AM
As a (private) pilot, I can see both sides of this.  I think perhaps the "news investigators" are trying a little too hard to make more of this than there is, though.
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: Wineslob on March 10, 2011, 11:27:44 AM
Man, that was shitty of them.
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 10, 2011, 11:35:22 AM
Man, that was shitty of them.

Yup.  And it was a piss poor excuse if you ask me.
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: Eupher on March 10, 2011, 11:37:38 AM
I'd really like to wipe my hands of this issue.
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: Tucker on March 12, 2011, 01:41:31 PM
Don't these airline passengers know anything about bathroom etiquette?
Title: Re: Safety Equipment Removed from Airplanes
Post by: IassaFTots on March 14, 2011, 07:29:16 AM
Don't these airline passengers know anything about bathroom etiquette?

Obviously they haven't read our thread.   :-)