Am 07.04.2015 um 22:05 schrieb Stephen:
> On 07/04/2015 18:07, clipka wrote:
>> I always knew the Brits were eccentric, so where else could this bizarre
>> air accident have happened...
>>
>> https://youtu.be/OIQQhqpVY80?list=PLRaGrXoicRyQYB4z70WljMLbQ0xUT3ntQ
>
> Would you have expected a German aircrew to behave differently?

Absolutely not... or well, maybe? There are differences in mentality 
between people from different nations, and they may result in 
differences in the way people react. That aircrew was a perfect match 
for the accident; don't know if a German crew would have been. Also, 
don't know if any crew would have been, had it not been due to the fact 
that there happened to be an extra person in the cockpit on that flight.

But I wasn't alluding to competence anyway, but to, well, shall we say, 
karma?

Somehow it seems fitting that such a bizarre thing (including the fact 
that there were no casualties, nor even lasting injuries) should happen 
not to Germans, Americans, Chinese, or whoever, but to Brits.

If karma had allowed something like this to happen to a German plane at 
all, it would have required the pilot to go the extra mile out of the 
cockpit and straight into the engine, to cripple the plane for good. 
That would have turned this eccentric Brit-ish incident into a proper 
solid German-ish tragedy.

(You know, like, German planes don't get lost. If we have a suicidal 
pilot in the cockpit, the plane doesn't mysteriously disappear over some 
vast ocean never to be found again; it just slams into the next best 
mountain, with ample evidence available as to what happened. And of 
course France is involved in some way, too.)

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