Sudden turbulence caused injuries to at least 26 passengers on a Continental 767 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Houston this morning. The plane made an emergency landing in Miami.
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- Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.
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It is just simply amazing at the behaviour of passengers. On the one hand, manuals advise you to "move around the cabin" to avoid phlebitis but at the same time they tell you to "Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down."
Sorry for the profanity, but it's the same thing as people wanting to get on a train even though they see there are people getting off.
They are so CONTINUALLY STUPID. I don't know how many times I've told my seatmate to maybe NOT GO TO THE BATHROOM right now, but I swear it's a losing battle. They WILL do it.
I've been in many frightening turbulent episodes, some involving massive lightning blasts, and even though I've flown easily over 2,000 times, I ALWAYS knew the rule: SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP, with the seatbelt on.
Go ahead, assholes, tear a new hole in the ceiling with your head if it TEARS SOME SENSE INTO YOU.
Crew not included in this rant.
Cheers
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