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- From: dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
- Subject: Re: Scanners in Airports and on Planes
- Sender: news@cup.hp.com (News Admin)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:17:57 GMT
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- From: laborde@oak.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gregory R. LaBorde)
-
- >Still, the lawyers inevitably have to enter into it somewhere. I flew a leg
- >sitting next to an AA flight engineer who told me that the reason AA prohibits
- >listening to comms (and doesn't include ATC on the in-plane audio selection)
- >is because the corporate lawyers are worried some passenger might hear a pilot
- >make a boo-boo and cause alot of problems. I always thought it was funny that
- >nothing prevents me from doing the same in my living room (yet).
-
- The difference is that when you're in your living room you have no
- imaginable grounds to sue AA because you heard something amiss. If
- on the other hand you were on the plane, and claimed that forever more
- your sex life was destroyed by the incident, ..., well, you get the
- picture. Maybe if we made it a point to avoid AA and tell them
- that we prefer airlines which make the ATC available, they would
- change.
-
- I listen on UA also, although sometimes it isn't available, and often
- you have to put in a special request which they take great pains to
- explain may not be granted. One of the more interesting things was on
- a red eye SFO->JFK, and the pilot was trying to get a straight shot,
- ignoring the normal travel lanes, from somewhere over Iowa all the way
- to upstate NY, eventually succeeding.
-
- Another was LaGuardia to Denver. Listening, came the curious news (to me)
- that we were going to stop in Milwaukee. Being on an unplanned flight
- (entering the airport, two minutes later getting on a plane about to
- leave using a ticket for a different flight to Denver) I was willing to
- believe that UA had a flight which stopped in Milwaukee, but then came the
- further news that since LaGuardia was wet, and the 737 full, it was unable
- to take off with a full fuel load, and had to stop to refuel. The
- announcement to the passengers was terse "we're going to stop in
- Milwaukee for a few minutes", with no explanation.
-
- Dan Hepner
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