Planes dropping life vests?

[punkandska66]

Apparently some Canadian airline company is getting rid of their life vests because of fuel costs. It's planes from Nova Scotia mostly.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/29/grant.airline.vest.ctv

I think it's really dumb, considering on the video it says it will be reducing the weight by only the equivalent of a small child. I don't think it's worth it. Sure gas is expensive, but I'd rather pay more for an airline ticket than to get a cheaper ticket but not be safe. That would really bother me, knowing that there are no life vests on the plane I'm on.

Vaughn, take a car.

[speekerphone]

wow.....


i also heard they will be charging $7 for a pillow

[Vaughn Whynot]

lol why do i keep playing this in my head
owner of air company : ok budget cuts...where to begin
assistant : life jackets?
owner of air company : perfect your in the air anywas...why need them!
lol
i never flew before nor will i
planes are sketchy
wow.....


i also heard they will be charging $7 for a pillow
yeah and you have to pay for the drinks and food now
separate from what your ticket is

[speekerphone]

I HATE PLANES!!!!

[TacticalNinja]

well chances are, if the plane hits the water everyone dies anyways. Who knows, maybe they have one BIG life jacket for everyone instead, that was one size fits all.

[Flamekebab]

Planes aren't sketchy.. Are there seriously people out there who wouldn't fly? I mean, maybe for ecological ideology, but otherwise..?

It's like that I'm told there still exist people who don't buy things online because they don't think it's safe. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction..

[Vaughn Whynot]

Planes aren't sketchy.. Are there seriously people out there who wouldn't fly? I mean, maybe for ecological ideology, but otherwise..?

It's like that I'm told there still exist people who don't buy things online because they don't think it's safe. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction..
lost a friend in a plane crash thank you
so i don't trust them
i would have to be sedated like BA from the Ateam

[MitchellStafiej]

lost a friend in a plane crash thank you
so i don't trust them
i would have to be sedated like BA from the Ateam
Commercial flights are much much much much much much much much safer than driving in a car.

I could have said much many more times but I think you get the point. While yes it is sometimes unsettling to be up at unimaginable heights, it's perfectly safe.

Mitch

[Vaughn Whynot]

Commercial flights are much much much much much much much much safer than driving in a car.

I could have said much many more times but I think you get the point. While yes it is sometimes unsettling to be up at unimaginable heights, it's perfectly safe.

Mitch
who said car?
a friend was in a 4 seater and it crashed

[Pablo585]

Better yet, how about they remove oxygen masks, barf bags, and seat belts too. And how about they get rid of flight attendants. Leave the people to get their own food.
It saves money.

Lol JK.

Seriously though, I can't wait for a Canadian plane to crash and 300 families sue millions of dollars because no one could swim long enough to get rescued.

[C2Films]

No large airliner has ever made a successful water landing. Water becomes like concrete at speeds that fast. So life jackets are sort of useless except in extremely very rare occasions on narrow-bodied airplanes/prop planes.

[Flamekebab]

lost a friend in a plane crash thank you
so i don't trust them
i would have to be sedated like BA from the AteamSo?

A friend of mine died in a car accident many years back, I still drive or let others drive me.

People get run down crossing the road every day, I still cross the road and walk around in the city.

Commercial flights can crash, certainly, but if you spend your life not doing things because there's a small chance things won't work out how will you ever have any fun?

I'd rather fly than take a ferry. Ferries sink, in fact my uncle narrowly dodged death by drowning by being late and needing to go on the next ferry.

I'll still take a ferry but a plane is generally safer and less hassle.

[Vaughn Whynot]

lol i just basing my refusal upon my bad luck

[sanftner2003]

did u see the episode of myth busters where they found out that it's beter for the air lines if we die, than get injured in a crash?

Because there's a "wrongfull death payout" limit that your family can sue for if you die. But if you survive in any form, then there is no limit.

Hense the fact that "tuck your head between your knees to prepare for a crash" is designed to break your neck.

It's actually been about a year since I watched my myth busters dvd, so I'm sure I got a bit of that info wrong.

[The_Count]

yer try living the UK.

One company put their gas prices up by 34% yesterday. Although over there you use the term gas for when we say petrol, and the gas i mean is the stuff you use in your house.

its currently about 3 dollars for a litre of fuel for a car.

[TheJoker]

Fuel costs? How much can a life vest weigh!?

Just kick all the obese people off lol

[craderscott]

Fuel costs? How much can a life vest weigh!?

Just kick all the obese people off lol


Or at least charge twice :)

[anomalie]

did u see the episode of myth busters where they found out that it's beter for the air lines if we die, than get injured in a crash?

Because there's a "wrongfull death payout" limit that your family can sue for if you die. But if you survive in any form, then there is no limit.

Hense the fact that "tuck your head between your knees to prepare for a crash" is designed to break your neck.

It's actually been about a year since I watched my myth busters dvd, so I'm sure I got a bit of that info wrong.

That was false. The brace position will lessen injury to your neck and head. Your neck or more secured in a way, so it has less potential to whip around and snap back harshly. Plus, you're a little more sheltered from all the stuff that's crashing around which could take your head clean off if you were sitting upright. People working for airlines have family who fly on those planes too, you know. :p

[TacticalNinja]

Commercial flights are much much much much much much much much safer than driving in a car.

I could have said much many more times but I think you get the point. While yes it is sometimes unsettling to be up at unimaginable heights, it's perfectly safe.

Mitch


well thats hardly a fair argument, it all depends on human error.

Airplanes are safer, but what happens if we take the same amount of cars on the road at once and fly airplanes at the same time at once, we'd have mid air collisions, or COULD easily. We'd have cockpit to cockpit traffic in the air, it would be 100 times more dangerous then.

[MitchellStafiej]

So?

A friend of mine died in a car accident many years back, I still drive or let others drive me.

People get run down crossing the road every day, I still cross the road and walk around in the city.

Commercial flights can crash, certainly, but if you spend your life not doing things because there's a small chance things won't work out how will you ever have any fun?

I'd rather fly than take a ferry. Ferries sink, in fact my uncle narrowly dodged death by drowning by being late and needing to go on the next ferry.

I'll still take a ferry but a plane is generally safer and less hassle.
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Mitch