DomAviator
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
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ORIGINAL: DomAviator
You are right, he should NOT have been boarded. By law each passenger must have a seat. and he should not have been in the lavatory during taxi. take off, landing, or operations below 10000 feet AGL.
When you actually READ THE ARTICLE, you learn these interesting facts:
But Mutlu was allowed to board after a jetBlue flight attendant agreed to give up her seat and travel in an airline employee “jump seat.” It was not clear in the lawsuit whether the flight attendant was working.
Fargle I read it. Thats yet more violations. The flight attendant was not working, otherwise she wouldnt have been sitting in the jumpseat except during the periods referenced above, she would have been working the cabin, in the galley etc. Merely allowing someone who is not part of the crew for that flight to ride in a cabin jumpseat was a violation. The passenger manifest, seating assignments, and dispatch release went out the window as soon as they started playing musical chairs... No matter how you want to slice it - JetBlue screwed the pooch yet again. The laughable thing is that it could have been soooooooo easily handled, either bump the fucking guy or jumpseat the off duty flight attendant in the cockpit. Clearly the extremely comfortable jumpseat in the cockpit was available, because if there had been an FAA Inspector, NTSB Representative, Air Traffic Controller, dispatcher, or company check airman occupying that seat this whole clusterfuck would never have happened as none of the above would have let the plane go with more passengers than seats... It is perfectly permissible, at the discretion of the pilot in commnd, to let an off duty flight attendant ride in the cockpit as an observer. Thats what a smart pilot would have done, but smart pilots dont work for JetBlue.
< Message edited by DomAviator -- 7/13/2008 4:18:24 PM >
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