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I Need To Have My Faith Restored In Airplane Windows

Footage has emerged apparently showing a flight attendant's attempt to fix a broken window during an Air India flight, in an incident that injured three people. 
As flight AI 462 from Amritsar to Delhi climbed after take off on Thursday the aircraft encountered "severe turbulence," causing the inner layer of a passenger's window to come loose a spokesperson told Newsweek. 

Full story here.


Not only do we have the above flight, but we also have the terrible event on a Southwest flight that we all heard about last week, (EDITOR'S NOTE: and today) where a woman was killed after her window was shattered and she was basically sucked out. Terrifying.

It's not the expected thing to fail with airplanes, which brings us to the point of today’s blog: you can’t have windows breaking on an airplane. You just can’t. You can’t really have any other thing go wrong, but windows are absurd, people. Come on. When talking about airplanes you have to keep in mind that sometimes shit just doesn’t work, or you’ve got people who put the wrong screws in the wrong places: I hate to do it, but you have to consider those possibilities.

The same is not true with windows. Every one of them should be impenetrable by tank shell. I’m talking a million times more bullet proof than bullet proof. There’s no scenario where you want an airplane window to break: you know they’re too small to escape through, and you’ve got that whole inside vs. outside pressure thing (science). There’s no moving parts! There’s no excuse! If you can’t promise me no more broken plane windows ever, and I mean ever, then there shouldn’t be windows on planes. If you can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen; and as far as I’m concerned the most devastating flaw in airplanes for the past two weeks has been windows, so time to cut them loose. 

Put screens in their place, and have cameras on the outside of the plane that broadcast the view to needy passengers. Wow, that’s a great idea. I need a science guy to put these ideas into action and make me rich. So hey, if you’re a person who’s worth any sense of a damn in science, hit me up and we’ll get rich. That’s why I got into blogging in the first place: the money.

Editor's note: In a classic case of "wrote the blog before reading the full article" it appears that only the inside of the window in question fell off. An apology, or correction seems appropriate but at the same time, my blog - my rules, so I'd argue that my point still stands, and is indubitably correct.

Editor's note to the Editor's Note: This shit happened again today so ignore all previous editor's notes, other than the parts that say I'm right.