Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThey have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.
I guess there wasn’t enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?
I wonder if you’ve ever listened to the part of the safety briefing before every flight where they instruct you to keep the seatbelt fastened throughout the entire flight.
Judging by the number of clicks I hear when the seatbelt light turns off, I’d say most people don’t.
You should always jagger the belt on unless you are standing up for some reason. This story is exactly why.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Where I fly they also always advise to remain fastener regardless of no immediate warnigs. Exactly for situations like this - and others.
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pour one out for the poor fella who finally got his turn to poop just before this happened.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Of course, but it should be the 2-4 people who are actively going somewhere / in the bathroom, everyone else should have their seatbelt on.
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem
yamper@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens
Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do
The situation itself never should have happened