Who's job is it, at an airport, to notice a crack in the windshield?

Is it the pilot's?

They just landed a plane because the pilot noticed the crack. Is it a failure of the groundcrew? Should they have noticed the crack?

I saw this thing on the History Channel yesterday about a plane that had a small crack in the side. Some lady spotted it when she was boarding the plane but didn't tell anybody. Then sometime into the flight about a third of the airplane's roof fell off, taking a flight attendant with it, and they had to make an emergency landing.

i would imagine it would be that of the maintence workers responsibility to notice such things, as that would fall under 'maintenence'... tho, i recently heard about a worker (either baggage handler or maintence worker) who hit the plane with some small vheicle (if it was a baggage handler it was that little cart they drive around, if it was maintence worker it was something else) not even that hard... and didn't tell anyone. later on that plane took flight and came down, and i think (not sure) pretty much everyone on it died...

A small crack in the windsheild might be pretty tough to see. Maintenence crews are going to be looking for big, obvious , things. They don't have time to go over everey thing with a fine tooth comb. Maybe the pilot just caught it in the right light.

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

A small crack in the windsheild might be pretty tough to see. Maintenence crews are going to be looking for big, obvious , things. They don't have time to go over everey thing with a fine tooth comb. Maybe the pilot just caught it in the right light.

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i feel for the poor bastard that has to go over airforce 1 with a fine tooth comb.. cuz you know that plane aint leaving the ground as long as the president or someone of equal importance is in it, unless someone has went over that whole damn thing, looking for cracks or anything that could be potentially dangerous... i'm wiling to bet space shuttles about to go into space don't even get as much attention as airforce 1 does...

I'm not talking buzz, I'm talking ripped out of your mind.

Walking past security, Boarding airplane, Than taking off.

there's not much that could really happen to you... at most i would imgaine a public intoxication ticket.. so if you're asking cuz you wanna know if you can get stoned before going on your trip, go ahead... just be cool, dont' act stupid and you'll be fine.. it's not like boarding an airplane while high is some federal offense.. or even as dangerous as yelling out "i got a bomb" in the middle of the airport.

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Originally Posted by LazySmoking420

I'm not talking buzz, I'm talking ripped out of your mind.

Walking past security, Boarding airplane, Than taking off.

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I've done it several times before. Once I actually smoked a joint right outside of the airport doors, where the pick up/drop off is. That was pre 9/11 though and security wasn't what it is now. Anyhow, it can be fun, at least at first. But then it just gets boring, especially on long trips. Some things even weed can't make much better.

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

I've done it several times before. Once I actually smoked a joint right outside of the airport doors, where the pick up/drop off is. That was pre 9/11 though and security wasn't what it is now. Anyhow, it can be fun, at least at first. But then it just gets boring, especially on long trips. Some things even weed can't make much better.

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bet you if they came around with a little cart, a personal disposable pipe and an 1/8 for everyone to smoke on while they're in flight, that'd make the flight better... i'm not sure what the consequences of smoking on a plane (as in health/danger concerns, not that you may get in trouble for it, like if airlines allowed smoking on the plane) would be tho...

shit, i'd just make some brownies or cookies. That would be the easiest way, I would think...