Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
It is not bitching about the USA, it is about making your own rules or phraseology that will bite you one day.
ATC, it's not the merit of the discussion - it's the sidetracking of the thread (as demonstrated by the post immediately after yours - many of us want to know what the engine problem was).
Same thing as whenever there is an evacuation, the thread inevitably gets sidetracked into discussions about people taking their carry-ons with them during the evacuation and what to do to prevent it. The discussion may have merit, but it's a complete sidetrack to the original issue of whatever happened that resulted in the evacuation. Like many of those on the forum, I'm far more interested in the original issue (and what could be done to prevent/correct it), but am forced to sort through seemingly endless discussions that are completely unrelated.
And this is far from a one-off - it happens on a
very regular basis (I managed to earn a 10 day suspension with a somewhat verbose request that those wishing to discuss carry-ons during an evacuation create their own thread several years back).