1: That’s where Flight Attendants are for!
2: That’s where Flight Attendants are for!
3: An accident? What sort of? That accident could happen to anyone.
4: Justice works slowly!
5: What are you talking about?!

1. no. In an emergency you can not expect FAs to neglect their duties towards the other passengers just to help this person.

2. Again questionable. Who says that FAs are trained to help her in the correct way. Which is also in regard to point 3. What is if they are helping here and by accident the person falls. Would the airline not risk another court case if they would use untrained personal to perform those duties.

3. Accidents that happen while the FAs are helping the person. Helping her on the toilet or something.

4+5. I just find it suspicious that the case was brought to the court in the US. I mean it was a French airline and a british airport. So why not go to court in europe ?? Could it be that this thing only went to court in the US because of the much greater compensation she can expect there.

Don´t get me wrong, I really think that things went very wrong with the Air France jerk and the airline was not right to handle it the way it did. However I see nothing wrong with asking for a doctors to check if she can fly alone.
Perhaps she should have told the airliner earlier about her physical condition, so that they would have been prepared and all problems could have been worked out before hand.

too bad it wasn’t a nude beach. hehe. 🙂

No that was occupied by the submarines checking out their wonderfull new high image enhancing video system they have installed in the periscope. 😀

Well the EJ has an excellent fuel economy, excellent mission capable rate and a very excellent thrust to weight ratio.

Ok a lot of dreaming going on here.

JSF is no option. The deal for the german industry would be too small. Furthermore after the 180EFs that are planed arrive the need for new planes is rather small. Remember that then there will be only 2 Tornado wings left 82 planes). The ECR wing and the recce wing. The obvious choice would be to get some 20-40 more EFs that are in a ECR/Recce configuration and disband one unit. For strike missions EF will get more stand-off weapons (Taurus) or a UACV might be developed. (in cooperation with France and Russia perhaps)
On the helicopter side. The CH-53Gs (not Ds) are planed to stay in service till 2020-25. SLEP (all airframes) and update (40 airframes) are planed. However the people flying those days think that this is highly unlikely as those helicopters are worn out. As they would requie a complete rebuild and thinking of the new Eurocopter project it is possible that the CH-53s will go in 2015 and be replaced by a smaller number (say one or two wings at most) of HTHs.
Medium transport and CSAR will be done with the NH90. 80 for the army, 43 for the Luftwaffe and 30 for the marine (MH-90 varaint).
Combat helicopter will be the Tiger UHT. 80 examples ordered. 120 planed but those might be converted into more NH90s.

I think the article is spot on. We have seen some airlines getting ready to reduce theri fleets of 744s and to replace their oldest 744s. But none of those has ordered any new 744 for the passenger role. Look at Korean Air, they are going to convert a good part of their 744s to freihters, while 777s and A380s (unfortunately) are being bought for passenger ops.

Nice shots

Not that I would know of a LTU crash