Plane returns after passengers brawl reportedly due to a seat recliner

[Reggie]

Hi all,

Link to this news on ninemsn.

Plane returns after passengers brawl

 

[ausi ski bum]

Stoopid Merkins

 

[BAM1748]

recline - ready for a fight...

Plane returns after passengers brawl - Totaltravel

 

[rwatts]

Government and airline officials said a United Airlines plane required assistance from two F-16 fighter jets as it returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport to make an emergency landing.

Just what were two F-16s going to do ? Shoot the aircraft out of the sky if the men didn't sit nicely ? I guess the fight could have been seen as a possible diversion for terrorists but gee !

Richard.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

Re: recline - ready for a fight...

'meh

I bet if this was a QF flight, it would have made headlines on the 6 o'clock...LOL

 

[Sifor]

Just what were two F-16s going to do ? Shoot the aircraft out of the sky if the men didn't sit nicely ? I guess the fight could have been seen as a possible diversion for terrorists but gee !

Richard.

Actually yes.

After 9/11 things have changed. If an aircraft is going to be used as a missile they will shoot it down, despite losing those on board. Bentham's utility principle at play.

 

[Robert K]

I don't understand this. Why get pissy if someone lowers their seat? Just lower your own. Or take a boat.

 

[Moody]

I don't understand this. Why get pissy if someone lowers their seat? Just lower your own. Or take a boat.

Why recline your seat? Why don't YOU take a boat and get a cabin?

 

[james4321]

Interesting that there is attitude being shown in this thread that is the very same attitude which lead to its subject matter !!!

 

[rwatts]

Many longer term forum members will now be groaning from deja vu.

Richard

 

[Ikara]

If I type this reply and find that the font has been squeezed by the person who posted in front of me, I'm going to be very annoyed!

JB

 

[Ikara]

And I did like this response on the web site.....................

"not kevin Rudd again somebody forgot his meal again"

JB

 

[MatF]

Totally reasonable IMHO

 

[Nigelinoz]

When it comes to people reclining their seats I have a very laid back attitude.:mrgreen:
Cheers
N'oz

 

[medhead]

Stoopid Merkins

Don't blame wigs for this.......Merkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Robert K]

Why recline your seat? Why don't YOU take a boat and get a cabin?

get a cabin?? wtf does that even mean? i don't speak emo.

if they weren't meant to be reclined, then why put the function in.

and if everyone reclined, you'd have the same space. if you don't like it, fly J.

everything's "me me me". there's people in the world who don't enough to eat, and people are bit*ing about people reclining their seat?? don't understand.

 

[medhead]

get a cabin?? wtf does that even mean? i don't speak emo.

if they weren't meant to be reclined, then why put the function in.

and if everyone reclined, you'd have the same space. if you don't like it, fly J.

everything's "me me me". there's people in the world who don't enough to eat, and people are bit*ing about people reclining their seat?? don't understand.

and it is not "me me me" to insist that everyone recline because you wish to recline? :-|

Oh and "get a cabin" is not emo. It is get a cabin on a ship that has lots of room to satisfy your reclining needs.

 

[bat21]

Re: recline - ready for a fight...

'meh

I bet if this was a QF flight, it would have made headlines on the 6 o'clock...LOL

If this happened on an Aeroflot flight, the hosties would have beaten both passengers senseless!!

 

[gumpy]

For short flights i never recline the seat but for long haul over night flights isn't ok to recline? The function is there to help people get what ever sleep they can get right?

Airlines should state the guidelines for reclining... If it causes an issue and it's rude to recline then they should take the function away.

 

[JohnK]

Many longer term forum members will now be groaning from deja vu.

Oh not again. I now remember why I keep tryng to get bulkhead.

if they weren't meant to be reclined, then why put the function in.

There are also oxygen masks and life vests but you don't use these on all flights do you?

and if everyone reclined, you'd have the same space. if you don't like it, fly J.

That is a fantastic attitude to take onto a tiny metal tube in the sky.

everything's "me me me". there's people in the world who don't enough to eat, and people are bit*ing about people reclining their seat?? don't understand.

And if everyone did not recline then it would be a perfect world.

I have the perfect solution and it would not hurt for the airlines to listen. Have a reclining and a non-reclining economy section. Sure some days the balance may not be quite right but if the recline could be controlled based on how many passengers then everyone would be happy.

And I really could not care it non-reclining was at the back of the cabin as long as I knew the person in front could not recline.

I remember one time on a DJ SYD-CBR flight. I think ~45 minutes in the air and the couple in front reclined in sync as soon as the seat belt sign went off and started reading a book. That is a joke right? They were going to stay reclined for ~20 minutes and it was absolutely necessary to recline? Don't justify it by saying the seat is meant to recline! I got up mumbling and cursing them and moved a few seats forward. They knew what I was saying but acted all stupid and naive.

I despise chronic recliners....