KFI: A man who was on the Southwest Airlines flight when an engine exploded has taken a lot of flak for trying to live stream what he thought was the final few minutes of his life.
“All I could think of in that moment was, I need to communicate with my loved ones,” he told ABC television. “I thought, ‘These are my last few moments on Earth and I want people to know what happened.’”
Marty Martinez spent $8 to sign up for Southwest’s on-board wifi and attempted to use it to live stream what he thought was an imminent plane crash.
Instead, flight 1380 made to the ground, but not before one passenger, bank executive Jennifer Riodan was killed after being partially pulled through the shattered plane window.
Once the flight was on the ground, social media users began piling on Martinez for what they said was a morbid attempt to video his death. The Associated Press collected some of the more … virulent reactions to the live stream. more here
A video has a better memory than a plane full of dead people.
Grant that I may not criticise until I’ve walked in his shoes.
Leave the man alone.
Some people need to get a life
I empathize w/ this person … no one knows how they would react in this situation … I can’t fault this man’s wish to share his expected last moments of existence with … anyone … not too many of us want to face death alone (& I don’t think it matters what your belief in the afterlife is)
p.s. my thoughts evolved in writing this … first thoughts were he’s just a creature of today’s narcissistic & on-line technology of Fakebook that we all loath … but then I thought, what would most of us do in a circumstance beyond our control that was, most likely, going to end in our death? & we had a few moments? … reach out … particularly to those we love
… we should all be lucky enough to get that chance
Was he signing up for the FREE account?
Was Surge Pricing involved?
Bet your life on it?
and now for something completely different
Elkhart woman wants to come home after she claims she was tricked into joining ISIS
http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Elkhart-woman-wants-to-come-home-after-she-claims-she-was-tricked-into-joining-ISIS-480315143.html
As I recall Flight 93 ended up the way it did and not inside the Capitol Building because some of the passengers made phone calls, which was against airline policy.
I hope this guy makes it into the TV movie.
Yikes, I hate flying. If that were me they’d spend a lot of money getting that plane to smell right. The trolls don’t sound like they’re from around here.
Sounds like quick thinking during a crisis.
Jealous?
That’s why I was a bubblehead.
There’s a whole lot more planes in the water than submarines in the air.
Better engineers.
The bottom of the barrel is officially being scraped by the virtue signalers.
I was on a flight once {military} where we had a engine explode just as we were at altitude heading out over the sea. We had to turn back and attempt to make it to a landing field. Seemed like it took forever and we brushed tree tops coming in. A few hours passed and we re-boarded on the same plane after repairs. Took off again and flew entire trip back in a heavy electrical storm. It kinda darkened my R&R a bit.
Social Media allows people to give others a piece of their mind for free.
The fact that many times it comes from a limited inventory is of no consequence!
I sctratch my head everyday trying to figger out why anyone would want to advertise that…
I don’t know how many others have noticed in the pictures in the cabin on flight 1380 after the engine disintegration at 33,000 feet that most passengers were attempting to use their oxygen masks incorrectly? Most seemed to be just covering their mouths with the yellow masks instead of their mouths and noses as the cabin crew demonstrate and the printed emergency instructions show. I guess you can still do it by just covering the mouth, but you then need to remember to breathe in through the mouth and out through the nose. As it’s meant to be supplemental oxygen and is not compressed air, it’s not going to allow full breaths if you seal the mask around your mouth.
Organgrinder: I think the military pilots (at least the ones I knew) are generally proficient at nape of the earth tactical flying, so they would probably less likely to panic at having to fly at very low level – although I’m sure the lack of engine power in your instance would have been a pucker-factor for them.
$8?? Why not, it’s not like I’m going to be around to pay it when the bill comes.