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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 16:41 - 06 Jul 2009    Post subject: Fix your own plane Reply with quote
Hi

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8136193.stm

Wonder if they paid him overtime?

All the best

Keith
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UnknownStuntm...
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PostPosted: 17:19 - 06 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't help but smell a fishy rat here. If things had gone wrong with that plane and, say, it had crashed who would be responsible?
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SoND
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PostPosted: 17:34 - 06 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
UnknownStuntman wrote:
I can't help but smell a fishy rat here. If things had gone wrong with that plane and, say, it had crashed who would be responsible?


The airline. They at least did a bit of a background check on him first.

I wonder what was wrong with it in the first place.
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OssY
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PostPosted: 21:36 - 06 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
if some guy came forwars and said "yup i am a mechanic for planes" i would pick ANYONE else but him to go and check the plane out.
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Phoenix
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PostPosted: 03:06 - 07 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why? Confused
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yuri2085
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PostPosted: 12:20 - 07 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
He was an engineer for their partner company who they share the contract with engineering work (or something like that) they checked out all his credentials and just saved lots of time.

I cant see why people (you guys :p) are upset about people/companies making good judgements and descisions not tied up in 2 miles of red tape.
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schooleydoo
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PostPosted: 12:27 - 07 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
"The passenger worked for another airline, Thomson Airways, which has a reciprocal maintenance agreement with Thomas Cook."

Publicity stunt.
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The View Askew
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PostPosted: 22:38 - 11 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
OssY wrote:
if some guy came forwars and said "yup i am a mechanic for planes" i would pick ANYONE else but him to go and check the plane out.



Why, because he might be the only one on the plane who does know how to deal with it, and actually was.
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st3v3
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PostPosted: 13:26 - 12 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't get:

BBC wrote:

"It was reassuring to know the person who had fixed it was still on the aeroplane. What are the odds of something like that happening?"
So, did they expect him to fix the fault and stay behind, missing his flight? I'd say the odd's are that he would be on the plane, considering it was his only way home.
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Chris Browne, managing director of Thomson Airways, said she was "delighted" that one of the company's engineers came to the rescue of fellow passengers "even when the flight was that of a competitor".
So, it was a Thomas Cook flight, and the plane was fixed by a Thomson Airways techy when they have the maintenance contract anyway? Where is the need to bring the company rivalry in there?

Publicity stunt indeedy methinks.
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