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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Fewer parts = fewer parts that can fail.

Boeing should look into this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Too bad they’re not having problems when the interior parts fail.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Weight repartition and balance is extremely important in an aircraft. If everyone moved to one end of the aircraft it could cause loss of control and crash

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Skill issue. Pilots need to learn to think on their feet.

[–] IrateAnteater 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why can't they stay sitting?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Their seats weren't installed either

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 8 points 2 weeks ago

Then they can't see over the console. Surely you noticed there aren't any seats, right?

[–] Steamymoomilk 10 points 2 weeks ago

DO A BARREL ROLL!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's quite scary to think that you can crash an airplane by having everyone walk to one end

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why break the cockpit doors when you can just get a bunch of terrorists strategically running around the plane to manipulate it just at the right angle of attack to steer it towards a building?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no! Tsa will be taking away our trainers next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is how we, the people, shall regain power from those pilots who think they know everything!!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Simple solution is to pack enough people in that they can't move like that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ya, maybe like on seats with, dunno, belts?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds space inefficient just add more people instead

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 weeks ago

Can confirm, seats are big and heavy, that's valuable people space.

Also, remove the luggage storage for more people weight capacity.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

a change in weight distribution is cited as one of the reasons for the crash of this us cargo flight in afghanistan.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They should fly up as high as possible and take a nose dive, then repeat the process. Let's call it Floating Xperience.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Boeing, they do that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Not the repeating part

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That’s part of astronaut training, they call it the vomit comet.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The Vomit Comet exists.

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[–] ironhydroxide 21 points 2 weeks ago

Then everyone decides to look out the left windows at the grand canyon.

And then slowly shifts to the back of the plane because they want to see it longer.

Soon they'll see it up close.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How about just bunk beds with seat belts or some kind of restraint and a paddled ceiling inside your bed space.

The next dumb thing to having an completely open floor space is in installing seats and normalizing the idea that people should sit in them for 8, 10, 12, 14 hours periods.

The only time we need seats with restraints is in the ten minutes after take off and the ten minutes when landing .... the rest of the time, I would prefer if I just slept the entire time.

I'd give up TV, a monitor, music, a window, free food and drinks if airlines just gave me a bare bones option of just being allowed to sleep flat for the entire flight.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a thing already and it is called first class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Could never afford it ... my point was ... I'd pay regular fare to be able to lie flat for the entire flight and you can forget giving me a TV monitor, entertainment, free food, just give me water, don't even bother with a blanket or pillow .... you can even stack me with three or four other bunks above or below me ... I don't even want a window ... I don't want to interact with your staff and I really don't want to have anything to do with anyone or bother with anyone for the entire flight ... just let me sleep in peace for eight hours, it's cheap and I really don't care or want any extras.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And you still get all the other stuff, so the only thing you have to give up is a lot of money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have that on routes to Floston Paradise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I unironically think this is how plane travel should be. Slide me into a tube and gas me asleep. No peanuts, no crick neck, no risk of hijacking, and no praying and screaming when we slam into a mountain at 900km/h because the pilots had a bad day.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are several ways they could do stacked beds or offset-stacked reclined seats that would not only be more comfortable and provide more room for the passengers, but also allow them to cram more people in the plane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like you could make a laying-down seatbelt (if it crashes, we're fucked anyway) and I should definitely be able to lay down proper.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I want hammocks like a man o' war.

Stack em three high and still have some legroom.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just install two layers of beds with seatbelts, imo.

[–] QuantumSparkles 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Damn that would be dope if it was stable enough. So Star Trek. Just needs a bar run by Whoopi Goldberg

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If your vessel's bartender has eyebrows and doesn't wear a cool hat, something has gone wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No cool hat, but is a Space Station a vessel? 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That interior instantly made me think of lazy town

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Knew what it was before I even clicked. You sir are an internet historian.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/may/01/747-cargo-plane-crash-bagram-airbase-video

I know this is a shitpost, but in case anyone is curious this link has a video of what can happen if a plane has unsecured weight onboard that is allowed to move around.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And here's the Wikipedia page about the incident, which has more details:

On 29 April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed within the perimeter of the Bagram airfield moments after taking off, killing all seven people on board.

The subsequent investigation concluded that improperly secured cargo broke free during the take-off and rolled to the back of the cargo hold, crashing through the rear pressure bulkhead and disabling the rear flight control systems. This rendered the aircraft stuck in an uncontrollable pitch-up attitude and induced a stall, and made recovery by the pilots impossible.

So it's not just unsecured cargo, but unsecured cargo that disabled rear flight control systems. I'm guessing unsecured people wouldn't cause the same problem, but it could certainly cause other problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah people are squishier than the fuselage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ohhhh so that's where the set designers of all the star trek interiors got their ideas

[–] Trollception 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, Star Trek is where Boeing is shopping for ideas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They could at least set up a kid corral somewhere, let the little shots wear themselves out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just eject them at maximum altitude

Abortion isn't legal but human rights violations aren't really being punished right now

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Na you can only do that in an airbus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Line dance during take-off: "now sliiiiide to the back!"

[–] Ookami38 2 points 1 week ago

Standing room only plane trip. General admission tickets. Have a sky moshpit.

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