“There Was An Almighty Crack”
Afishionados,
No, I am not talking about God’s Ass here. Sorry. Instead, I refer to the latest debacle to come from Australia. No, not Nicole Kidman (or her crack, for that matter). Sorry. As I am sure you have heard, Qantas Airlines has had two incidents this week with two of its jets.
It started with an explosion and a hole (as does anything remotely fun, right?) in one of Qantas’ 747s. One of the passengers exclaimed that “There was an almighty crack” in a written statement to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The plan made an emergency landing, and everyone was given a lollipop for being so good.
Then, today another Qantas jet had a problem with one of its landing gear doors not closing properly. This jet was forced to turn back 10 minutes after taking off. No lollis for those folks, though.
I want to (and someday will) go to Australia. Qantas is the airline that I will probably fly because they seem to have the cheapest flights from the USA to Australia. And now I know why they’re so cheap. Undoubtedly, it’s time for Qantas to stop spending horrendous amounts of its cash on its silly First Class lounges with its ambient soundscapes and focus more on the safety of its planes and passengers. And free pretzels.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
That whole airplane safety thing is vastly over-rated. Airplanes are like women. They either go down, or they don’t.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
mike: Do they cum- I mean come- with pretzels, too?
July 29th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Yeah well, it cost them about the same as a handful of olives for the soundscape so they wouldn’t have saved much money there. Maybe they should stop handing over ever-increasing multi-million dollar profits to their shareholders…
July 29th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Do they swallow?
July 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
anaglyph: Says the maestro…
C.Rag: I have no idea what mike and anaglyph do.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
The hole was “the size of a small car” which tells you several things.
1) Australian airlines are shit for maintaining their planes
2) Americans build some tough assed planes that can still fly with a hole “the size of a small car” in them.
TV
July 30th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I hate spitters.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
People get all upset about airplanes and stuff, but there’s really no problem- it’s not like you’re going to be stuck forever up in the air- they’ll get you back down to earth, one way or another.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Shit. One more incident like that, and evn Rain Man will stop flyin Qantas.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Who on earth can cum with a pretzel?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Hey - call me a freakin’ socialist, but I’m with anaglyph. This is what happens when the market gets hold of a good business. Joey’s comment gave me a laugh too: Qantas is now no doubt “shit at maintenance”. It’s only a matter of time before it loses its status as one of the only airlines never to have killed passengers. Dammit. I’m booked to get home on them…