RE: I Give Up !!!
Nobody is upset here people, at least I’m not. This is a forum, we express our opinions, if things get a little ‘fired up’ (no pun intended), once in a while, so be it. It’s rather rare that it happens anyhow. I agree that a fire in an aircraft high above the earth is a bad thing. Valujet, which was an up-and-coming low-fare airline in the U.S., and the original launch customer of the MD-95/B717, had one of their DC9’s go down over the everglades in ’96. Turns out there was something in the cargo hold that caused the cabin to catch fire. Long story short, Valujet was done after that, bad publicity, FAA sanctions, ballgame. However, I’m just going to reiterate my 2 main points from the earlier post, and I’ll be done with this. 1) In full agreeance with Mongu, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT, that of all accidents that have happened in aviation history, has there been one DIRECTLY CAUSED by a smoker in the cabin doing so legally or illegally. 2) If somebody is going to smoke in the cabin, legally or illegally, it’s going to happen, regardless of whether one magazine decides to print a ‘how to’ article, showing ways of getting away with it. It’s not going to encourage more people to do it, that have done it already. For the record, gentlemen, Maxim has a ‘how to’ article every issue, most of them are pretty humorous, none to be taken seriously. One in fact was, “How to overtake terrorists that have overtaken your flight.” I read that article, me being an aviation fan, thought it was pretty funny. Now, had they printed an aritcle saying, “How to HIGHJACK an airplane,” I agree that would have been COMPLETELY out of line, and extremely unaesthetic. Was this smoking article in the same ballgame, some of you may think so, I think not. I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. As Ben Affleck’s character once said in ‘Boiler Room,’ That’s it, I’m done!
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