Frenchman detained after lighting cigarette mid-flight to Phuket

[Assurancetourix]

47 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Sacre bleu! His whole holiday went up in smoke!

When I read his name, I frankly laughed;
  "luck for France" as Macron 1 * king of the French likes to call them.
Another one who thought he thought he was allowed because he lives in a suburban city where the French police no longer dare set foot.

[whaleboneman]

12 hours ago, fasteddie said:

It's vapour and it dissipates immediately.

Sure, into everyone’s lungs. If I can smell it, I’m breathing it.

[whaleboneman]

34 minutes ago, tifino said:

... and so would the aircraft! 

 

Imagine the uproar if happened to blow, when near iraninnie airspace - guess he'd be ummm 'lucky' a SAM got blamed...

Do you realize that people used to smoke on planes? 

[AhFarangJa]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A Qatar Airways plane sits on the tarmac at Phuket International Airport. Photo: The Phuket News / file

No it most certainly is not sitting at Phuket Airport.....

[LeungKen]

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[LeungKen]

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[CGW]

17 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

Do you realize that people used to smoke on planes? 

Thought it was compulsory back in seventies? remember just about everybody smoked back then, planes didn't have "non smoking" areas, could happily puff away anywhere! 

[LeungKen]

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[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

PHUKET:-- A 36-year-old Frenchman was taken into custody on landing in Phuket early this morning after he lit a cigarette in the aircraft toilet during his flight from Doha.

 

[Skallywag]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Qatar Airways Flight QR842, direct from Doha to Phuket.

6.5 hour flight and you need a cigarette?  Wow even heroin users can go longer than that

[Tropposurfer]

Poor junkie needed a fix bad! Could have led to the deaths of the entire plane but hey, I gotta get my nicotine fix!!!!!!!!!!

[LeungKen]

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[LeungKen]

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[White Christmas13]

14 hours ago, Beggar said:

Very bad. But I wished also people would be stopped to use electronic devices for vaping at every corner here in Thailand. It is much worse than smoking for others since a lot of "smoke" is created. Since I can see it now so often I am really surprised that nothing happens. I have thought it is not allowed... 

It is not smoke it is vapor just like boiling a kettle

[LeungKen]

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[Scott Tracy]

Vaping is off topic. 

Also the comment is inaccurate in that it is vapour, not smoke, hence the name.

Vaping is illegal in Thailand.

[nauseus]

6 minutes ago, Scott Tracy said:

Vaping is off topic. 

Also the comment is inaccurate in that it is vapour, not smoke, hence the name.

Vaping is illegal in Thailand.

But can you still smoke on Thunderbird 1?

[Peterphuket]

Can you imagine 25 years ago it was very normal to light a cigarette in the plain.

[Andrew Dwyer]

I remember an experiment by Air France on long haul flights shortly before the smoking ban came into fruition.

 

They created ( Smokers Corner ) in the space where the toilets are located.
After people had eaten half went to the toilet and the other half went for a smoke all in the same 3 square metres !!

 

Absolute chaos, but really funny to watch ????

 

[stevenl]

4 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I remember an experiment by Air France on long haul flights shortly before the smoking ban came into fruition.

 

They created ( Smokers Corner ) in the space where the toilets are located.
After people had eaten half went to the toilet and the other half went for a smoke all in the same 3 square metres !!

 

Absolute chaos, but really funny to watch ????

 

I don't think that was specifically AF. That time the smokers seats were in the back just before the toilets, so anybody wanting a smoke had to go there. At that point that was the standard on all planes.

[Assurancetourix]

46 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

Can you imagine 25 years ago it was very normal to light a cigarette in the plain.

In the mountain also and it's still possible ..

[Andrew Dwyer]

38 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I don't think that was specifically AF. That time the smokers seats were in the back just before the toilets, so anybody wanting a smoke had to go there. At that point that was the standard on all planes.

This was the only time I saw it and it was in the middle of the plane from CDG to GRU .

They even had new curtains with “ Smokers Corner “ written on them, they pulled the curtains closed and it was only used at certain times of the flight.

This was after the farcical last two rows of Business smoking with the Economy passengers sat right behind ( eyes streaming ) !!

[TPI]

18 hours ago, Beggar said:

Very bad. But I wished also people would be stopped to use electronic devices for vaping at every corner here in Thailand. It is much worse than smoking for others since a lot of "smoke" is created. Since I can see it now so often I am really surprised that nothing happens. I have thought it is not allowed... 

The "smoke" you see is moisture with traces of nicotine, which, by the way, is good for you!

[nauseus]

2 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

Can you imagine 25 years ago it was very normal to light a cigarette in the plain.

...and in Spain....in the rain.

[nauseus]

22 minutes ago, TPI said:

The "smoke" you see is moisture with traces of nicotine, which, by the way, is good for you!

yummy

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

This was the only time I saw it and it was in the middle of the plane from CDG to GRU .

They even had new curtains with “ Smokers Corner “ written on them, they pulled the curtains closed and it was only used at certain times of the flight.

This was after the farcical last two rows of Business smoking with the Economy passengers sat right behind ( eyes streaming ) !!

AF were one of the last to ban smoking. In 1997 I was on an A340 from Paris to Houston. Most of the oil workers and half of the hostesses spent most of the flight at the back in "smokers corner". The hosties joked that the Captain had to adjust the trim nose down to compensate but it was so crowded back there they might have been serious! 

[balo]

With that name, I would have been thinking terrorist attack , when someone does that kind of stupidity. 

[fasteddie]

6 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

Sure, into everyone’s lungs. If I can smell it, I’m breathing it.

If you can smell it, get out of his personal space.

[Maestro]

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[nauseus]

1 hour ago, balo said:

With that name, I would have been thinking terrorist attack , when someone does that kind of stupidity. 

in the good old days