Quite.

Tom Alridge said one of the cabin crew panicked upon landing.

“She was screaming – ‘Get off, get off’ – she was literally pushing people down the chute,” he said.

Sounds to me like she was doing her job rather well!

Ian

Sorry to dredge up an old thread but I thought you might be interested in how this sorry tale ended…

BBC: Middlesbrough airline fraudster’s web of lies

Ian

I had a Rolls Royce contractor (engine designer!) flying out to USA with us today

he said it definately isn’t a design fault with the engine

Well he would say that wouldn’t he 🙂

he theorised that the initial cause of the problem might be possibly due to volcanic ash from Mt Merapi!?

I can see how the ash might cause a surge but it seems unlikely that it would cause disintegration of the kind we saw on this flight?

Sorry if I’m too late with this 🙂

I flew TCX on an Air Transat codeshare, booked from the Air Transat website, MAN-YYZ last month. The legroom is epic – I am normally packed into any charter airline seat (I’m all thighs!) but I had loads of room, a good 4 inches in front of my knees at least. The food was good and the cabin staff were friendly and helpful. The mid-90s vintage 757 was clean inside, but the IFE is terrible, aisle CRT screens with a rubbish picture. Take a book 😉

I hope this is of some help!

Ian

Seriously, are we going for the record for most number of repetitions in a single thread? 🙂

Ian

In a way I suppose it’s a good thing that large pieces are still on or near the surface, from a retrieval and investigation point of view. Doesn’t make the images any less shocking though 🙁

Ian