Pilots seat replacement
Hi, lots of really interesting stuff on this forum. I have a quick question for all you aviation techies out there. I was recently on a flight when we were told that the back of the captains seat had just fallen off - which sounds odd, but I guess not impossible. On my return flight I was told by a member of the flight crew that they had since travelled on that particular aircraft and that the whole seat had been replaced with a nice shiny new one at a cost of £80k. We were only delayed for a couple of hours, so it struck me as odd that there just happened to be a spare pilots seat ready to be fitted. Also are pilots' seats interchangeable across all of the different makes and model of aircraft?