Originally Posted by funky stick
Full disclosure: I'm an aviation journalist.
The other night I was returning home on a Delta CRJ-700 from out west. I was in seat C16 next to the window and the next to the last row. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude, after I had pulled my sweater up for warmth, I started getting too warm. I could feel heat radiating off the interior plastic panel of the aircraft at my shoulder. I put my hand on the panel, between the windows, and found the panel was more than warm. Running my hand up to where the panel met the overhead panel for the reading lights and the a/c, it was almost too hot for my hand. This did not seem right especially since the panels on either side of the warm one were cool. Perhaps I've been in too many airplanes where things went wrong, but I was genuinely concerned at what seemed to me to be excess heat in a place where they should be none.
An aviation journalist who apparently:
1. Doesn't know the seat numbering on airliners is numbers first, then letter, as in 16C, not C16;
2. Doesn't know that the window seat would be 16D, not C.
Odd....