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Were the passengers standing while taking off ?



Yes. Here's what Pakistan daily Dawn has to say

"As many as seven passengers aboard the Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on Jan 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers in a serious breach of air safety regulations."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1316682/pia-probing-safety-breach-...


Did they also stand during takeoff and landing?

Doesn't sound believable...


All passengers were seated, airline non-revs were on portable jump-seats. Per Captain's discretion.

Maximum certificated escape capacity for a 777-300ER is 550.


What flight are you referring to? The article says extra passengers were allowed to stand in the aisles. It also says the captain was unaware until after takeoff.


Non-rev = staff travellers, for anyone not in the airline business


Sorry but I don't understand the down vote , I was trying to understand the situation ?


The downvoters were annoyed by bad punctuation. ;-P

Don't put spaces before commas or question marks.

Single question mark is enough. "??" looks sloppy.


> Don't put spaces before commas or question marks.

Actually, I do this all the time, when what precedes the punctuation mark is a URL. It just doesn't seem right to have the URL seamlessly run into a punctuation mark that isn't actually part of it.


URL a permissible exception to a rule that otherwise stands.

You can identify texts written by French people by the extra spaces (if they're careful or have a good word processor, it'll even be a non-breaking space).

PS: Spaces before smileys also permissible :-)


Yeah, I sometimes do it too, even though it doesn't look pretty.

Another possibility is to put <> around the URL; but that didn't work correctly on HN last time I tried.


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Agreed , but I was unable to understand how it worked while taking off and landing .


People downvote over some dumb stuff sometimes on HN, but I'd be careful about posting a complaint about being downvoted that contains no other contents. It's against site rules and could get you in trouble.




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