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Nerd petition to repel ipad shut off on airplanes

Tech savvy is a term for a person who is well versed in the mystical ways of modern day technology. Fortunately for the world, more and more of our everyday life is built around the understanding and application of technology. This of course has overloaded the world with tech savvy citizens almost to the point where babies are born with an ipad infused into their hands. It’s true, the world is fast becoming run by the digital youth. It is no surprise then that Gwaker.com reported on news yesterday that a petition has begun to repeal one of the most user-unfriendly airline policies, spearheaded by these young and gun gear-heads.

A New York Times Column last week issued a statement that has since rocked the digital debate of why electronic devices must be shut off during take-off and landing. According the Times’ writer Nick Belton, there is no true evidence to support a safety hazard to using your ipads, kindles and blackberries during that rise and fall period in the flight. This, of course, led to nerd outcries across the internet and ultimately an online petition to repel the sky law that prohibits the use of electronics during take-off and landing. The petition, available to sign at whitehouse.gov, currently has nearly 800 signatures in just two days. They hope to have 25,000 by the first week of January.

The old ways appear to be facing the digital gallows. The simple reason behind this is that information is too wide-spread and accessible now. We’re informed and empowered and our fingers type text messages at tremendously daunting speed. It could be said that if this FAA rule gets overturned, it could mean an awakening in a new revolution. A technological revolution engineered by a more adapted and vocal generation. At the very least, it could kill that fifteen minutes between runway and minimum altitude with a few rounds of Angry Birds. The world should be afraid.

Tyler Baker; OSM Writer

( Source : Gwaker.com )

Airline food may be responsible for man’s death

Reported on Yahoo today, American Airlines are being targeted in a lawsuit as a result of an in-flight meal that has been said to be the reason behind a Miami man’s death. The man, Orthon Cortes, apparently passed away on an American Airline flight after health complications attributed to the airline food he consumed on the flight just before it. At least, that is what his wife and daughter are claiming.

The Cortes family, who filed a suit in a Miami district court, seem confident that the reason behind their patriarch’s death (he was 73) has to do with his meal, which they believe contained harmful bacteria. They accuse American and LSG Sky Chefs, their German based food subcontractor, of ”failing to properly maintain or prepare the food”. Sky Chefs has since partitioned to be removed from the case because they claim they did not cater the flight in question.

The flight was an international one from Barcelona to JFK, where Cortes had to catch a connecting flight to Miami. At JFK, Cortes first displayed symptoms of a food-born illness. According to the suit, Cortes began to feel “discomfort and pain that included sharp stomach cramps and sudden thirst and other clear outward manifestation of severe physical illness.” He boarded the connecting flight and while in-air, Cortes went from nausea to shortness of breath and then suffered cardiac problems that resulted in him being unresponsive. The flight made an emergency landing in Norfolk, Virginia, but Cortes was pronounced dead on arrival.

The bacteria he was allegedly subjected to is a type called Clostridium perfringens, which is the third most common cause for food poisoning in the United States. It is extremely rare that this bacteria can lead to fatal circumstances. While this is the strong point in the lawsuit, there is a portion that faults American Airlines for allowing Cortes to board the second flight in his sickened condition. One has to wonder if American will be held liable for not grounding Cortes or if the bacteria was the actual cause to his untimely and tragic circumstance.

Tyler Baker; OSM Writer

( Source : Yahoo )