Agreed. It needs more Jaaaaaaaag-ness.

Interesting to get it from a FA perspective. I had some intense pain in my lower back before I flew back Stateside (I was living in Germany at the time) and the day befoso the flight some friends convinced me to get it looked at it before I flew. Good thing I did - my appendix had burst and that could've proved very…

It's such a hard thing. Flights are expensive, and in this case I hope no one realised they were sick until it was too late. But if anyone ever feels a bit dodgy before a flight, please let the ground crew know, and reschedule.

Virology isn't even remotely my game, so take this with a grain of salt (along with other electrolytes as you hydrate), but... Cost and logistics aside, I'm not sure this would be useful, as the incubation time of these digestive disasters is comparable to the time to get lab results.

"I am incredibly reluctant to assign blame in an incident like this, though with mechanical failure ruled out by the company . . . ."

Can you really trust the airline to rule out mechanical error after an incident like this?

I mean, they obviously have a sizable stake in the outcome, so of course they'd say that it wasn't mechanical error, because that might place the blame on the airline itself.

Looking at that, it almost appears that the altimeter was off or something. Like a sea-level adjustment knob was tweaked inadvertently and they realized something on the instruments was off when they got so close to the water and went in by eyeball and misjudged it by about 10-20 feet.

Well that's about as cynical as you can get...

"I think her parents really made a mistake," mused the sociopathic monster whose bizarre childhood experiences spearheaded by a dominant megalomaniac of a father have mutated her into a test case for the negative influence of overcompetitive youth athletics.