🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Weiss wrote:
> 
> "Matthew T. Russotto" wrote:
> >
> > In article <C6C8184D921E4419.C10188D8B523605A.365910F4881DD92C@lp.airnews.net>,
> > Adam Weiss  <aw722@pdq.net> wrote:
> >
> > }The answer to that is simple.
> > }
> > }Packages should be put through x-ray systems and sniffed by drug and
> > }bomb sensing dogs.  Only if the sniffs or x-rays alert the airline to a
> > }possible danger should the package be opened.
> >
> > Oxygen canisters lack any such characteristic odors and x-ray
> > signatures.
> 
> Which is what I adressed in the other part of my post.  My hunch is that
> someone at Sabre Tech knew that the oxygen canisters were illegal and
> dangerous as they were being loaded.  ValueJet was not notified of
> this.  Sabre Tech was ultimately the guilty party, but in a different
> airline where all cargo loading was handled by airline employees and not
> contracted employees of a different company this would not have
> occured.  This, in essence, is what I see as wrong with ValueJet (aka
> Air Tran).

Good to see you backing off your original claim, which was WAY out of
line:

> > You know, just this evening I heard a Value Jet (aka Air Tran) ad on TV,
> > touting how cheap it was to fly with them.  I immediately though "yep,
> > amazing how saving a few dollars on aircraft maintenace can cut ticket
> > prices".  They're doing it again; another few hundred people will be
> > killed by Value Jet in a few months.


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