Off Topic French plane crash

[Amin Arrears]

Why? He goes to his local quack, the quack signs him off. The repsonsibility to inform his employers is his.

Guess every country will run things differently but that's definitely how it works in this country.

Perhaps certain professions should be notified by the doctors themselves to stop cases like these slipping through the net.

I'm sure military personnel wouldn't get away with keeping it under wraps.

 

[PattyNchips2]

They probably had special gear and training to jump from those heights. Similar to deep water diving. I've no doubt if some general fat bird jumped out a plane at 36000' in normal fat bird holiday attire (mini skirt and a crop top) she'd probably end up passing through the bakers gates brown bread.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh according to the bickering children, the passengers are given a blanket each - that should be enough, eh castro?

 

[ImperialTiger]

How high up was that Red Bull dude? From the images at the time I'm quietly confident it was higher than a plane flies.

Some of the comments and counter comments in this thread are bordering on surreal. I'm just going to post this wiki link (Roo will be happy) and you can all get back to speculating, conjecture and believing the daily mail as gospel (ironic after posting a wiki link, right?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit

 

[originallambrettaman]

They probably had special gear and training to jump from those heights. Similar to deep water diving. I've no doubt if some general fat bird jumped out a plane at 36000' in normal fat bird holiday attire (mini skirt and a crop top) she'd probably end up passing through the bakers gates brown bread.

That bloke jumped from 135,000 feet, though he was effectively wearing a space-suit.

 

[PattyNchips2]

That bloke jumped from 135,000 feet, though he was effectively wearing a space-suit.

oh so wearing an Armani suit won't offer much protection?

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

yeah he wasn't dressed in a business suit when he jumped was he?

That wasn't mentioned anywhere. It was stated 'your blood would boil', not 'your blood would boil unless you were wearing a special ****ing suit'.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

Why? He goes to his local quack, the quack signs him off. The repsonsibility to inform his employers is his.

Are you 100% sure that's how it works with people of certain job responsibilities such as, say, a commercial airline pilot?

 

[originallambrettaman]

oh so wearing an Armani suit won't offer much protection?

No, but you could jump out of a plane at 36,000 feet in one and your blood wouldn't boil.

Good idea to have some oxygen with you though.

 

[PattyNchips2]

No, but you could jump out of a plane at 36,000 feet in one and your blood wouldn't boil.

Good idea to have some oxygen with you though.

point is, you wouldn't survive very long, jumping from that height.
if the pilot wants to take you all with him, when he is suicidal - there is little anyone can do.

 

[PattyNchips2]

That wasn't mentioned anywhere. It was stated 'your blood would boil', not 'your blood would boil unless you were wearing a special ****ing suit'.

you petty ****.
how pedantic can a child get?

 

[Carmine Galante.]

point is, you wouldn't survive very long, jumping from that height.
if the pilot wants to take you all with him, when he is suicidal - there is little anyone can do.

If you jumped from that height with a parachute you would.

10,000 feet is the altitude a pilot takes the plane down to when the cabin has suffered depressurisation as it's a breathable.

The little oxygen masks that drop down in front of you have about 10 minutes supply of air so the pilot has to get the plane down to a breathable altitude ie 10,000 feet.

That's what some expert said on the TV yesterday.

I do not recall him mentioning anyone's blood boiling, I think I'd have remembered that.

Damn you dumb Patty.

 

[Tobes]

Are you 100% sure that's how it works with people of certain job responsibilities such as, say, a commercial airline pilot?

Yes. They're checked routinely due to their role, but that's different to a visit to a GP

 

[PattyNchips2]

If you jumped from that height with a parachute you would.

10,000 feet is the altitude a pilot takes the plane down to when the cabin has suffered depressurisation as it's a breathable.

The little oxygen masks that drop down in front of you have about 10 minutes supply of air so the pilot has to get the plane down to a breathable altitude ie 10,000 feet.

That's what some expert said on the TV yesterday.

I do not recall him mentioning anyone's blood boiling, I think I'd have remembered that.

Damn you dumb Patty.

like I said, you wouldn't survive very long.
so you're in favour of parachutes then? cos everytime I try to suggest it is a bad idea, you counteract it with how I'm wrong.
OR as I suspect, you're just an argumentative **** with too much time on your hands?

****ing unemployable - sub underclass.

 

[Amin Arrears]

If you jumped from that height with a parachute you would.

10,000 feet is the altitude a pilot takes the plane down to when the cabin has suffered depressurisation as it's a breathable.

The little oxygen masks that drop down in front of you have about 10 minutes supply of air so the pilot has to get the plane down to a breathable altitude ie 10,000 feet.

That's what some expert said on the TV yesterday.

I do not recall him mentioning anyone's blood boiling, I think I'd have remembered that.

Damn you dumb Patty.

26000' is the highest breathable altitude but it takes days or weeks of acclimatisation for your body to be able to survive on such low oxygen levels.

7000' is the highest breathable altitude without acclimatisation.

I wonder how fast you fall?

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

Yes. They're checked routinely due to their role, but that's different to a visit to a GP

Are you really telling me that a pilot of a commercial airline can go to his quacks, get told he's too sick to work, ignore that, go in to work as normal and nobody knows anything about it? I don't know if that's the case, I'm not arguing I'm asking.

If so it's absolutely effn ridiculous.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

you petty ****.
how pedantic can a child get?

I don't know, has there been some research? I'd be keen to learn the answer.

And again someone on this board confuses pedantic with correct.

 

[Amin Arrears]

Are you really telling me that a pilot of a commercial airline can go to his quacks, get told he's too sick to work, ignore that, go in to work as normal and nobody knows anything about it? I don't know if that's the case, I'm not arguing I'm asking.

If so it's absolutely effn ridiculous.

I'd assume so. I think it's only military and emergency services that get direct access to medical records, could well be wrong.

 

[originallambrettaman]

Are you really telling me that a pilot of a commercial airline can go to his quacks, get told he's too sick to work, ignore that, go in to work as normal and nobody knows anything about it? I don't know if that's the case, I'm not arguing I'm asking.

If so it's absolutely effn ridiculous.

Not as ridiculous as allowing suicidal pilots to lock themselves alone in a cockpit.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

Not as ridiculous as allowing suicidal pilots to lock themselves alone in a cockpit.

Terrifying how seemingly easy this all was.

 

[bum_chinned_crab]

I'd assume so. I think it's only military and emergency services that get direct access to medical records, could well be wrong.

When you think of it I suppose it's not really that different to a bus driver - they can get 70-odd people on board - or a train driver with several hundred and I don't imagine there would be stringent practices in place regarding similar occurrences. We just view planes differently.