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thorntot From United States of America, joined Aug 2009, 37 posts, RR: 0
Posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 9094 times:

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Inflight Irony aboard Columbia flight 409

Not everyone will get the joke...

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IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4723 posts, RR: 25
Reply 1, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 8812 times:

That's perfect!!! Did you happen to look around for familiar faces on the monitor?

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26point2 From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 668 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 8565 times:

Looks photo-shopped to me. Maybe I miss the joke...not of the Sponge Bob generation.

By the way, are air disaster movies still restricted from in-flight entertainment? Used to be.

lostsound From Canada, joined May 2012, 161 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 8505 times:

Quoting 26point2 (Reply 2):
By the way, are air disaster movies still restricted from in-flight entertainment? Used to be.

Nope. I watched Mayday on my WestJet flight 2 years ago.

"Our hands are full, our lives are not"

mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 726 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 8348 times:

LOL this is priceless. I guess the guy is okay with watching it on a plane.

Quoting 26point2 (Reply 2):

I don't get what you're saying. While a great show (I'll admit it, I do still occassionally watch the sponge

)
, Spongebob has nothing to do with this. The irony is that he is watching an air disaster movie on a plane. Maybe I'm missing what you're saying.

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tonyban From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 311 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 8275 times:

Its photo-shopped. Unless you're looking directly at the screen, the screen image is not view-able at this angle. And no-way would they have this movie as part of IFE.

IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4723 posts, RR: 25
Reply 6, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 8221 times:

Quoting tonyban (Reply 5):
Its photo-shopped. Unless you're looking directly at the screen, the screen image is not view-able at this angle. And no-way would they have this movie as part of IFE.

Regardless, photo-shopped or not it is simply priceless as mentioned by mesaflyguy!! Love that humor.

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Seat55A From New Zealand, joined Jan 2013, 29 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 8203 times:

Quoting tonyban (Reply 5):
Its photo-shopped. Unless you're looking directly at the screen, the screen image is not view-able at this angle.

Eh? I guess I must have very special vision because I have certainly been able to view at that angle...but I guess you might be able to tell it's a shop from the pixels.

johruk From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2008, 167 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 8105 times:

But for those of the Spongebob generation...It is showing on the screen in the seat in front! (Or did everyone see that?)

mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 726 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 7981 times:

Is this from a Soap? It seems like the quality is the type that Soaps have.

Probably a stupid question.

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26point2 From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 668 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 7968 times:

Quoting mesaflyguy (Reply 4):
I don't get what you're saying. While a great show (I'll admit it, I do still occassionally watch the sponge )
, Spongebob has nothing to do with this. The irony is that he is watching an air disaster movie on a plane. Maybe I'm missing what you're saying.

Yes, I thought there was more to it. Like that particular Sponge Bob episode in ironic juxtapostion with the "Airport 75" movie reference.

With the caption "Not every one will get the joke" I was expecting there to be some sort of subtle humor. Of course we all get it.

Clever would have been an "Airport 79" screen shot. Much better.

[Edited 2013-02-05 08:57:28]

hoMsar From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 805 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 7709 times:

Is that one of the Airport films?

The photo itself looks like it was taken from an ad for IFE.

I was raised by a cup of coffee.

777jaah From Colombia, joined Jan 2006, 1401 posts, RR: 2
Reply 12, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 7330 times:

Quoting hoMsar (Reply 11):
The photo itself looks like it was taken from an ad for IFE

Specially when the pax is swipping his credit card inthe middle of the movie......take a closer look to his right hand.

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mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 726 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 7219 times:

Quoting 26point2 (Reply 10):

Gotcha, makes more sense to me

Thanx for that.

Quoting 777jaah (Reply 12):

I saw that as well.

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SouthernDC9 From United States of America, joined Mar 2011, 263 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 7176 times:

This reminds me of the bit in Airplane! where Randy the flight attendant(!) tells the worried passengers to sit back, relax and enjoy the in-flight movie, which it turns out features a fiery plane crash... (which reminds me of every other Airplane! scene/quote, which is all I'll be thinking about the rest of the work day...)

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Lucky727 From Canada, joined Sep 2003, 600 posts, RR: 2
Reply 15, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 6860 times:

Quoting lostsound (Reply 3):
Nope. I watched Mayday on my WestJet flight 2 years ago.

Not surprised... A friend of mine flew WestJet YVR-LAS on 9/11 a few years ago, and their Live TV was showing WTC footage on a 'memorial' program the whole way. Coincidental, or slightly creepy/inappropriate, depending on how you look at it.

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TWA772LR From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 763 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 6780 times:

I think CO played Snakes on a Plane on the pop down screens a few years back.

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BoeingGuy From United States of America, joined Dec 2010, 2315 posts, RR: 7
Reply 17, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 6697 times:

Quoting hoMsar (Reply 11):
Is that one of the Airport films?

Yes, it's Airport 75 in the scene when she is flying the airplane and the other young flight attendant brings her coffee.

Hope I didn't spoil the movie for you. I've seen some ratings that call Airport 75 one of the 50 worse movies of all time. I think it's okay. Not as good as Airport 70, but worth watching.

What are those way in the far lower left of the IFE screen? Are my eyes bad, or is that two elves? See what I'm looking at?

qf772 From Australia, joined Aug 2006, 99 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 6327 times:

The best example of all time was the Jetblue passengers who watched their own emergency landing

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/trave...ews/2005-09-22-jeblue-fliers_x.htm

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SANMAN66 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 609 posts, RR: 1
Reply 19, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 5377 times:

How about this tv program on a JetBlue flight?

http://youtu.be/n18oyJUH0O4

[Edited 2013-02-05 17:54:32]

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IMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43
Reply 20, posted (3 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 5210 times:

Quoting SANMAN66 (Reply 19):

That is truly funny.

What is it with all the "is there a possibilty airline X will.." threads? The answer it'll is possible.

tonyban From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 311 posts, RR: 0
Reply 21, posted (3 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 935 times:

This is slightly off-topic but I flew Air-Asia last year from Bangkok to Penang and also Penang to Singapore. I forgot the name of their in-flight magazine but they had articles in this mag on previous aircraft crashes and full detailed reports on the crashes including 'pilot error' crashes. This appeared to be on-going monthly feature in the magazines. It was a little unsettling for me to see these reports in this magazine. Not the best of reading material for the moment.

robsaw From Canada, joined Dec 2008, 173 posts, RR: 0
Reply 22, posted (3 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 664 times:

Quoting lostsound (Reply 3):
Nope. I watched Mayday on my WestJet flight 2 years ago.

Of course Westjet uses a "live" system where they are using satellite programming and not simply pre-recorded onboard video, which limits their ability to exclude airline disaster related programming.

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