When a jet is fueled up, it will not explode, it will start burning, just like a car will not blow up, if it's gas tank is punctured and the leaking fuel ignited. It will burn very fast, but still within reasonable speed for a fast extinguishing work to be effective in saving the passengers (Specialised airport fire crews with high-volume foam monitors must be at the scene within less than a minute, according to regulations). When, however, during tanking, a leak in the refueling lines or couplings occurs, the high pressured jet fuel will spray, and under right circumstances will form an explosive mixture with air. Then it only takes a small static charge, or anything else, to cause a condition, where an explosion damages the fuel lines, tanks and/or the passenger cabin, resulting in a much larger fire and an EGBA. Everybody gets burned alive.
A few days ago I was flying from Frankfurt to Berlin on the early flight. I got there just as boarding started and instead of letting people on in the normal order they just said "Everyone can now make there way on to the plane, please use the turnstiles if your ticket has a bar code."
And that was it. It worked perfectly! 99% were business travelers (it was a week day) and everyone knew exactly what to do. And everyone had wheely bags, the ones specially designed to fit in the overhead compartments. So everyone took off their coats and jackets before getting on the plane, went right to their seat without needing to look at every single seat number, lifted their case into place, GOT OUT THE AISLE QUICKLY, sat down and was reading the financial times within seconds. IT was the quickest filling and seating of a plane I've ever experienced. I really, really wish they could play a video or give instructions to this effect in the departure lounge for all flights, so people get just as used to sorting out their shit on the plane as they are comfortable enough with the safety demonstration that they ignore it.
When I sat down I had this podcast to listen to as I've recently been learning some computer programming, and the whole first part was Rym and Scott going over the exact same things as I had been thinking just seconds before.
My only disagreement is with the wheeled cases. You guys obviously don't travel much! Or with much.
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And that was it. It worked perfectly! 99% were business travelers (it was a week day) and everyone knew exactly what to do. And everyone had wheely bags, the ones specially designed to fit in the overhead compartments. So everyone took off their coats and jackets before getting on the plane, went right to their seat without needing to look at every single seat number, lifted their case into place, GOT OUT THE AISLE QUICKLY, sat down and was reading the financial times within seconds. IT was the quickest filling and seating of a plane I've ever experienced. I really, really wish they could play a video or give instructions to this effect in the departure lounge for all flights, so people get just as used to sorting out their shit on the plane as they are comfortable enough with the safety demonstration that they ignore it.
When I sat down I had this podcast to listen to as I've recently been learning some computer programming, and the whole first part was Rym and Scott going over the exact same things as I had been thinking just seconds before.
My only disagreement is with the wheeled cases. You guys obviously don't travel much! Or with much.
Edit: Changed the link.