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

[Oneironaut]

I think you guys are looking for this thread:

Has everyone traveled via Airplane high?

[slipknotpsycho]

I think you guys are looking for this thread:

Has everyone traveled via Airplane high?

nah, he asked that question here first, then about 11 mins later he went and made a thread about it...

[Toker4LifeVT]

heh and people wonder why i've never been on a plane lol well if i ever do im packing my own parachute cause you can be damn sure if shit goes down im taking a dive!

[slipknotpsycho]

heh and people wonder why i've never been on a plane lol well if i ever do im packing my own parachute cause you can be damn sure if shit goes down im taking a dive!

yea, try to open that door to jump out... watch how many people grab you before you make two steps and pin you down to the ground... that is of course if they DON'T know you have a parachute... let them know you have the only parachute on the plane when it's about to go down... and you'll be like a kitten in the middle of a pit of 12 pit bulls trained to be killers that haven't ate in a week.... by the time they're done everyone will be holding on to a 1x1'' square of your body and the parachute fabric...

[tadaa]

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.

When there's 200 lives at stake I would certainly hope they go over the plane pretty godamn carefully.

[Oneironaut]

They usually do. You're much, much safer flying around the world than you are driving to the airport.

[slipknotpsycho]

yea but car wrecks are waaaaaaaaaaaaay less deadly.. i mean if you look at the statistic of car wrecks to death ratio, then look at the plane wreck to death ratio (even if you just look at a flight and say someone died so it counts as a death or no one died, so it wasn't deadly, that way you're not judging numbers because planes do carry alot more people then cars do) you'll see the plane death ratio is much higher, may be safer flying, but you have a better chance of surviving a wreck if you're on the ground

[tadaa]

yea but car wrecks are waaaaaaaaaaaaay less deadly.. i mean if you look at the statistic of car wrecks to death ratio, then look at the plane wreck to death ratio (even if you just look at a flight and say someone died so it counts as a death or no one died, so it wasn't deadly, that way you're not judging numbers because planes do carry alot more people then cars do) you'll see the plane death ratio is much higher, may be safer flying, but you have a better chance of surviving a wreck if you're on the ground

He's talking about dying, not wrecking. It is a lot safer to fly than it is to drive. However, dying in a plane crash would be just about the worst way to die, so I'll take my chances on the ground. I just got back from a vacation that had me on 5 flights, I won't ever fly again.

[Fengzi]

When there's 200 lives at stake I would certainly hope they go over the plane pretty godamn carefully.

Think about it, a plane lands and takes off again in what, 60-90 minutes? Do you know how many people it would take to go over every square inch of the plane in that much time? It would look like a bunch of ants swarming over a piece of food that fell on the ground. I'm sure there is a list of things they check out every time and other things they check out at various intervals. Something like a crack in the windsheild must be pretty rare so they may get the full going over once every 500hrs of flying time or something like that. Just hope your not on the plane on the 499th hr

[Fengzi]

Ha, this all reminded me of one time I was in China and flew on a Chinese airline. I was in the window seat and when I looked up I saw that the plastic trim around the window was held on with duct tape. Sure it was just the trim and had no structural value but it made me wonder what else was duct taped together.