Posted on 12/12/2022 8:42:19 PM PST by libh8er
This past week, a video was posted showing a passenger lighting a cigarette aboard an American Airlines flight. The four-second video shows the man lighting the cigarette and nothing else. However, the filming passenger Sara Radosevich stated in the accompanying tweet that a flight attendant snatched the cigarette out of the man's hands.
Smoking in-flight
In this situation, the cabin crew responded appropriately by extinguishing the cigarette, as smoking aboard an aircraft is illegal and poses a fire risk. The airline commented on the tweet, stating that it was handling the situation. A representative for the airline commented on the following on the video,
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Bold move...
“and poses a fire risk.”
Lie.
I remember the days when smoking was allowed on planes and the armrests had built-in ashtrays. Remember the light that would come on and say “Smoking Allowed” after the plane was airborne for a few minutes? The No Smoking light would come on when the plane was approaching the airport. You could also smoke on Greyhound buses.
Used to do it all the time back in the day. Ashtray right there in the armrest.
I remember when planes had smoking and non-smoking sections.
My airplane came with ashtrays on every arm rest. And it’s a relatively newer airplane.
Flight Attendant Karen Wilde speaks to the accused Smoker:
“Do I need to walk into the cockpit and tell the pilot to turn this plane around so you can be walked off?
Spoiling the departure plans of all these people?
Will I need to do that, Yes or No?
You’re on my Watch List for the rest of this flight.
I’m going to sit in this seat and Babysit you.
Put your earphones on, and take a nap!!”
We should also stop all older planes from flying where people used to smoke because of the highly toxic nature of third-hand smoke, i.e. the smoke in the walls that highly sensitive snowflakes can still detect and cause them to go into conniption fits.
It’s still done on private flights. Any biz jet with PM at the end of the tail number even hands out free cigarettes. My pilot and copilot seats have no arm rests so the ashtrays are built into the side windows trim panels. The crew always has one hand on the yoke and one on the engines quadrant controls. No use for arm rests.
Oh my! The horrors! Did the plane immediately go on lock-down with all the masks dropping simultaneously? Did passengers start passing out in the aisles?
I suspect not. Yes, there are rules and the passenger should not have done such a thing, but it truly was not the end of the world, nor did the plane fall from the air.
i am so old that i remember smoking in the hospital
My wife once took Jat Airways to Yugoslavia and she said that the flight attendants smoked during takeoff and landing, and that left side of the plane was the smoking section while the right side was non-smoking.
Chuckle ha-ha..
insanity.....
1983. Air Canada flight 797. DFW-YUL.
Curtis Mathes among the dead.
When I was in the hospital pretty messed up, my wife strategically made smoking buddies with the nurses, who were most likely to be found outside burning one when you needed a nurse and none were to be found.
I remember when the whole plane was a smoking section.
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