What's a pax to do ?
re: the current MD-80 thread in which someone was admonished for leaving his seat to report what he thought was a mis-configuration.
It reminded me of the Air Ontario F-28 crash in which one of the survivors (and an FA IIRC) clearly saw the contaminated wing prior to and during t/o, but did nothing because, as he said, he didn't know what he should.
Assuming (big assumption) that a pax is knowledgeable enough to spot something really wrong, what is the right thing to do to get it stopped ?
Other examples which spring to mind are NW MD-80 at Detroit and Cubana 154 at Quito. On the latter, I certainly would have been banging on the cockpit door during the third attempt.