Posted on 03/19/2007 1:39:04 PM PDT by edpc
This is fiction right?
If not her ghost was not far behind!:)
On this flight, I believe they'd make you captain.
Flights over a certain duration (10 or 12 hours?) have to have relief crews and a rest area for the crew off duty. I think the pilot/copilot usually have a cot in an enclosed area, the flight attendants have to make do with a curtained off area in coach. India to London should be long enough for that requirement.
Now see this is a point I agree with one hundred percent. Thanks for bringing this up. This is would have been a little better for all the passengers. The Air Line certainly could have handled the situation a little bit better, tho I maintain that the 'passengers' in FC (Whether they paid for the ticket or won it makes no nevermind) could have been a little more 'human' during this tragic time.
If the airplane was a 747-400, the crew rest area is in the very back, above the rear galley, accessed by a narrow starwell. It would be kind of hard to get a body up the passageway.
Long-range Airbus' have the option of a lower-deck crew rest area. Gravity is advantage there.
The 777 has an optional crew rest area above the front galley, and I think another one over the rear galley. I think the 787 will have something similar.
Other airplanes have a variety of options. Marked-off seats, seats set off by curtains, or a walled off area which looks like a large lavatory or closet.
It was probably either a 747 or a 777. They also fly 767s, but I don't think they go to Asia.
A first-class passenger on a flight from New Delhi to London awoke to find the corpse of a woman who had died in the economy cabin being placed in a seat next to him.... What was wrong with the seat she was in?..........
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