So what made the beeping noise?
04-20-2026 | 10:56 AM
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04-20-2026 | 11:24 AM
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
When the FA's report a "possible bomb" onboard, is your immediate priority to going be a detailed analysis of their assessment? Or get the divert, checklists, and notifications going?
I guess if you're two hours out from Midway Island, you could do the former.
Ultimately, it's on the FA's if they Cry Wolf without reasonable (from their perspective) cause.
I guess if you're two hours out from Midway Island, you could do the former.
Ultimately, it's on the FA's if they Cry Wolf without reasonable (from their perspective) cause.
04-20-2026 | 11:59 AM
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When the FA's report a "possible bomb" onboard, is your immediate priority to going be a detailed analysis of their assessment? Or get the divert, checklists, and notifications going?
I guess if you're two hours out from Midway Island, you could do the former.
Ultimately, it's on the FA's if they Cry Wolf without reasonable (from their perspective) cause.
I guess if you're two hours out from Midway Island, you could do the former.
Ultimately, it's on the FA's if they Cry Wolf without reasonable (from their perspective) cause.
04-20-2026 | 12:09 PM
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Can’t Monday morning QB this situation, but you have to take anything an fa says with a grain of salt and do your own due diligence. You can’t solely go off anything they say , whether it’s an issue with a pax or equipment issue or whatever. Most of them have proven themselves not to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
04-20-2026 | 12:12 PM
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04-20-2026 | 03:20 PM
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With such key details Im sure this happened..apologies for being unfamiliar....but could you cite when the last time this happened.....and what with the 364/363 seats reference for those who don't know.
Yesterday | 05:45 AM
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From: Airline Pilot
So when you’re sitting at the other side of the big brown desk, and you’re being asked why you didn’t divert after a flight attendant reported that there was possibly a bomb on board, how will you respond?
Yesterday | 06:09 AM
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From: Airbus 320 Right Seat
I can understand the reason for divert but to land and deploy the slides so fast that you didn’t even put the reversers back in ?
The egress is more questionable without have all the facts . I hope the investigation will actually explain to us what happened and how/why decisions were made.
The egress is more questionable without have all the facts . I hope the investigation will actually explain to us what happened and how/why decisions were made.
Yesterday | 06:13 AM
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From: 737
Well the fact that I am here on the other side of your big brown desk proves there was no bomb!
Yesterday | 06:57 AM
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From: 757/767 First Officer
You’re not telling the FAs that you are refusing to divert - you’re simply setting a calm, objective threshold for doing so. I’d defend that course of action all day long at the big long table.
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