One Mature Travellers Somewhat Cynical Viewpoint on What is Going on in the World we Move About

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Good maintainence ensures safer aircraft

Flying with a trans Atlantic carrier recently I was alarmed to see several lights flickering off and on throughout the flight.

One section of the main cabin light came on every ten minutes stayed alight for ten minutes and went out for ten minutes while else where overhead reading lights flicked on and off for no apparent reason.

Flight crew uttered the usual platitudes saying how sorry they were that it was happening but repeating there was nothing they could do.

One said she could not remove the tube because it would be a fire risk, yes she was blond and flew with Virgin Atlantic the other assured me that it was not like that on the flight out and the fault had only just developed

The stupid girl obviously had no clue because of course she had not been on the flight outwards and had she been so there would have been no need to use cabin lights during daylight

It does beg the question that if you cannot perform simple maintainence tasks to the cabin lighting system perhaps the same haphazard attitude is being shown to the engines or the flight navigation equipment.

The girls answer was to give me an eye mask to block out the annoying light.

No doubt had the engines failed she would have given me a parachute

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