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Thai airline flight makes emergency landing in Phuket
If I am not mistaken, I think it's protocol. The pilot must tell passengers what happened, or is happening, if anything out of the ordinary takes place mid-flight. It's not about scaring/not scaring passengers. It is about 'equipping' passengers with information - tell them what went wrong, reassure them by explaining what is being done to alleviate the situation, and calm them down, to avoid scaring them! Not telling them anything and letting passengers speculate will scare them even more, not to mention the potential of some passengers escalating the incident by panicking physically - because they don't have the right information! This is even more dangerous. Of course, aircrews are trained to be a little more tactful when they have to make such announcements. They probably wouldn't say "We just lost one engine, and have to fly with just the one that's still working" but instead something more 'encouraging' like "Due to a malfunction, we have to proceed with the flight with number two engine - that's the one on the right-hand side, ladies and gentlemen" and proceed to tell what is being/will be done to land the plane safely etc. etc. While it is safe for an aircraft to fly with one engine, certain conditions must be met - lower airspeed, lower altitude etc. And the aircraft is not allowed to taxi to the terminal on its own power and must stop as soon as it clears the runway upon landing. Engines (and the APU) must be shut down (to avert a fire hazard, I guess?). The aircraft must sit on the tarmac and wait for the aircraft tug to come out and tow it to a safe location where passengers can disembark. Imagine, if all this was happening and the pilot doesn't tell the passengers anything - what do you think will happen in the cabin? In serious, potentially life-and-death situations, people share and exchange real information, not play hide-and-seek with real information. I'm not a pilot nor an aviation expert, just an amateur AV geek and 'planespotter', but I WAS on a flight that had to shut one engine due to a malfunction and the events above did take place. Scary? I think I was more tense than scared. And it was bl**dy unpleasant, but I'll get to this in a bit. It was a Malaysia Airlines flight from KUL - BKK. The pilot did a good job talking to passengers throughout the flight after the initial announcement. The passengers were calm. The aircraft flew very slowly and at a low altitude but other than that, there was no drama. The unpleasantness came when we landed. The aircraft stopped as soon as it turned off the runway and everything was shut down. This was on a midday in April and, sitting in the open under the Songkran sun in Suvarnabhumi, the cabin heated up very quickly. I think it was a good part of 30 minutes before the aircraft tug came to get us. During disembarkation nobody pushed, rushed or panicked. It was quite 'normal' - to the point where you get the usual impatient muppets flipping their seatbelts away, lunging for their stuff from the overhead storage and standing in the aisle - even before the aircraft has come to a complete stop. The captain made a final announcement, then came out and together with the crew apologised for the unpleasantness. But instead of rushing to get off, the passengers (including the impatient muppets) clapped and even stopped to shake hands with the pilots and crew and exchanged pleasantries. I think this was all a part of their training and they achieved the desired outcome. I think they did a good job, don't you think so? -
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FAA’s Diversity Policies Under Fire After Deadly Air Collision
It's not so much that he weights in than the fact he's lying. -
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Elon Musk Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by European Politician
I've concluded this account is some sort of AI-generated comedy account.Its not a particularly original approach. You see this dead pan approach elsewhere, so hackneyed. Do you perform sand dances as well? Cha cha. -
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FAA’s Diversity Policies Under Fire After Deadly Air Collision
I’m sure if you read all of the forum rules you’ll understand. -
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The New Covid Pandemic is starting
One of the impacts of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic is the increased surveillance capacity in most countries. When we look more carefully, we see more things. This is a good thing, People are properly diagnosed, and better treatments delivered. Every pandemic leaves its mark on medicine. if we count from 1918 flu; the impact from that was the idea of PPE and distancing. The 1920s saw the start of a 40 year polio pandemic. The iron lung came about because of that, but disappeared because of the success of thr polio vaccine. But the lasting legacy of polio was Intensive Care Medicine, invented in Denmark as a response. And now we can't think of medicine without it Another benefit of polio; the FDA. Prior to Salk's polio vaccine, there was no FDA. There were no clinical trials. Salk developed a polio vaccine, which reduced Eisenhower to tears. His approach was to use inactivated polio vaccine. Key was using formaldehyde to kill the virus. Contracts to make millions of batches went to 3 companies. One of these companies didn't know how to make formaldehyde, with the result 200,000 kids were infected. The FDA was formed as a result, to provide regulatory oversight to the companies making medicines. End of the 50; China or Mao flu; 20 years earlier, Australia developed the first flu vaccine (remarkable, as the flu virus was only discovered in the 1930s). The vaccine had only limited utlity unless you knew the serotype of the virus in circulation. In 1957, a lab in Singapore, with Walter Reed in US, for the first time identified the serotype of a circulating flu virus, allowing vaccine to be manufactured in response. This stopped the 1968 Hong Kong flue from becoming a pandemic, thanks to production of an The work really initiated the whole area of molecular diagnostics, and transformed the role of the path lab. We know from improved diagnostics that the measles vaccine is not as effective as previously though. It does not prevent infections. In a population of vaccinated kids, PCR will show the virus circulating. But the burden is reduced such that the kids won't develop measles. Time tell what the lasting legacy is from COVID. Initially I thought it might be increased diagnostics capacity; before covid, not all countries could carry out PCR at large scale.. During COVID, there were massive investments into labs, which in theory should have left a skilled workforce, setting the scene for better cancer diagnostics. But that capacity was quickly stood down. -
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FAA’s Diversity Policies Under Fire After Deadly Air Collision
Why did former President Trump weigh in? I thought he was the current president.
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