Originally Posted by
TheBat
Wow... Impressed by the effort, really.
But again, unless you were diretly involved, I dare to say that you are falling into the same trap. They didn't do this, they didn't do that etc etc.
And I really wish I had seen this sensitiveness, critisism and elaboration on real safety incidents like the (not-so)Smartwings incident where they flew a 737 all over almost half of Europe on one engine (and no distress call), allegedly landed with less than the legal fuel quanity, full of innocent passengers that had no idea of what was going on.
I really do not wish to spend more time discussing a can of coke in a tray, so back to the subject before our posts get deleted:
Kudos to El-Al for this. Brilliant idea! Perfect farewell to perhaps the most beautiful flying machine ever IMHO.
Personally, I wish I was a passenger on that flight even if I had to go through tough security checks (known or not-known to me). I am positive that everyone involved (including the air marshals I believe) was carefully prepared and briefed about every aspect of it.
Agree to disagree. I concur with your idea that more serious incidents exist, and that 'this' one is not necessarily notable, so I desist in any further claims. It just irks me that some people think that governments, 'agencies' etc. have everything under control and all is following some great, carefully developed plan (like shall we say the TSA, meticulous security with 100% success rate, or just lucky no one has died yet) . From my experience it usually is not, people are often negligent, incompetent, careless, stupid, groups have badly structured policy, the fact that anything functions at all is sometimes a miracle. I hope we can just agree that our world functions more by luck and the inherent robustness of our system, than some careful planning by ourselves. (Be it global warming we are causing but still requires great 'momentum' to fully upturn, or the state of our (social) societies...).