Y'all have done so well at pointing out the basic absurdity I won't
repeat. I will complain about something that's related-- The media
never gives us the end of these stories! At first it sounded like the
captain decided to land because of the child's tantrum. Then we learned
that it was the father's behavior. I'm betting that that's all we'll
hear on the subject.


We'll never hear if the man was charged or tried or sentenced. We'll
never hear what a judge and jury thinks about what happened. We'll
never hear what sort of compensation, if any, the other passengers got.
We'll never know how the other passengers felt about the man's
tantrum, if they thought it was truly threatening and worth turning
around for. It seems to me that there are 2 possibilities, either the
man was so truly out-of-control that the captain was justified in making
the emergency landing or the captain was the one making the dramatic
gesture. I wasn't there so I don't know, and while I do have an
opinion, I sure wish the media would tell me what the passengers who
were there thought.


We sure never hear what the future relationship between father and son
is like. We don't know if alcohol was involved. (I suspect the problem
beverage was not apple juice.) We don't know if the man had a record of
this sort of behavior. We don't know if the parents had tried to bring
apple juice and got it tossed out by airport security. We don't know if
he was assured that apple juice would be available on the flight and
later learned that it wasn't. The list goes on. These oddity news
items never tell us enough to make informed opinions.


(Thought: Would it be cost effective for a bus company to offer comfort
transportation? I'm thinking of a nice bus with leg room, big enough
seats and amenities like they used to offer on airplanes, without all
the hassle of checking luggage, getting there 2 hours ahead, going
through security, etc. As it is, I mostly fly, not because it is
faster, but because it is cheaper.)


--Lia


--Lia