UPS Airplane Humor

Awesome.

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Walt Reply:
December 21st, 2008 at 3:11 am

Ken and I wrote this while serving in Desert Storm. Quantas has never had a accident AND carries passengers.

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You might want to check your facts. UPS HAS had uncontrolled descents.

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SO vaudeville…love it.

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Are uncontrolled descents accidents? I think that counts as ALMOST an accident, don’t you?

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UPS isn’t an airline first of all. Second, UPS has had accidents. Third, there are plenty of other airlines with accident free records. Fourth, these are from Qantas airlines, not UPS.

Someone either seriously got their facts twisted or just bullshitted this

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Funny, though this has made the rounds in various forms for years: http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/squawk.asp

Re: UPS never having an accident: http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2006/philadelphiapa/iic_opening_text.htm

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How long exactly have airliners had target radars?
I’m pretty sure UPS aren’t to worried about shooting down ‘bogeys’?

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“UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.” This is not correct. Qantas is also on this list.

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Ehm this is stolen and changed. The original list is from Qantas who in fact ARE the only major airline to never have had an accident.

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The snopes link shows that it is not from Quantas either – and that myth about “never had a crash” was popularised by the movie Rainman and is also an urban legend

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oh who cares people. shut the hell up and just laugh. its funny.

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Another point. You don’t need a college degree to become a pilot. Never have, never will.

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Amen Abby!! Who cares who has a flawless flying record or where these quotes came from. As an Aircraft mechanic I think these are funny as hell.

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GREAT post. Funny as hell also. Some of you stumblers are whiners. I hate whiners who always criticize. If you don’t like it POST your own. Thanks again for the hilarious post.

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didn’t Quantas just have a couple accidents i think they are off the list

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CHILL, people. It’s a JOKE. Like a few other people said, laugh and move on. Merde….

Nice joke though… It cheered me up a lot. ^.^

It’s been thumbed up on Stumble.

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Hey, some of you guys here forget that SOMETIMES, a good laugh is nice, regardless of where the joke came from or whatever..stop being so serious people:)

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P: I thought this was mildly amusing.
S: Then I realized I had seen it a dozen times and that it is unfunny bullshit.

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I actually lol'd. Doesn't happen too often on the internet.

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that was really funny

also Qantas is still the number 1 safest airline to travel on… No recorded loss of life, nor has a plane crashed (by crash i mean "crash", not an incident and safe landing).

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that's not necicarily an accident

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I'm glad you liked it. My dad sent this one to me.

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Mass hilarity

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Sounds like my Navy days

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I totally LOL'd over this comment. Thanks for leaving it Numpty.

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Thanks for the positive comment Adam. So it's true that Aircraft mechanics do have a sense of humor!!!

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You're welcome koncept.

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Thanks for the thumbs up.

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http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ups774/photo.sh…

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UPS is indeed an airline. UPS Airlines was started in 1988 and is owned by UPS.
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/about/history/19…

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this is so shit I am pissed off reading this trash

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veeeery funny

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haha so funny!!!

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Indeed. Three quarters of thse way down the list, there is one about an IFF. This list is from the military!

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Never let facts get in the way of a good laugh.

Some of you really do need to pop to the shops and buy a life.

I enjoyed these.

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I read this for the first time in the late 80's on much copied paper. The only difference is it was attributed to Navy pilots/mechanics.

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i just came back from work, tired and started stumbling. this made my day.
thanks alot. i almost cried reading this.
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

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That part made me laugh too.

Rodney
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cant always help PBYAC (problems between yoke and chair)

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It can't possibly take a high school diploma to find engine #3……

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maybe i just need a special pilot

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actually as far as accidents there is NO airline commercial or military that has NOT had some type of mechanical failure leading to either a crash,collision or emergency landing and no Quantas is NOT accident free

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Those were great and every single one of them were hilarious. I've got to go and find out why my UPS dude didn't make it by today. Tracking numbers are cool.

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Ha ha ha! Hilarious!!

Anybody who worries about the ‘tecnical accuracy’ of the facts needs to realize
that they are the reason this world has problems. Just laugh, its real funny.

BTW ‘technical’ was intentionally spelled wrong, so if you have already replied
pointing this out to me, YOU are one of ‘them’.

Again, Hilarious!

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For Mike 998 – Not necessarily a military aircraft. Most all commercial jetliners have IFF and can squawk an emergency code if trouble on board. And, yes, the maintenance squawks have been attributed to both military and civilian aircraft ops for many years. Mango and Joco are right – laugh a while and move on.

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Thank you! Seems we’ve got a bunch of fun-suckers on our hands!

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there . . . have . . . been , UPS airplane accidents -

in spite of their excellent mechanics ( and pilots ) :

what would be of interest ? is whether the USPS

air parcel service , can match UPS ‘ record ;

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UPS is not an airline? Wow! And I have been flying those 767′s with UPS painted on them all these years and never knew. Not to mention the thousands of passengers that flew on UPS charter operations. Thanks Grant! (Idiot)

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This stale joke has been relabled for every airline thats ever been. As far as the college degree for the pilot and a high school degree for the mechanic, you can get a pilots license with 40 hours of training, the mechanic requires more than 2000 hours of training and is required to go from basic aviation knowledge to turbine repair. Give the wrench a break, they keep you as safe as the pilot if not more and bear as much responsibility.

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QANTAS had several fatal crashes prior to the jet era. Although they have not had fatalities since, their 23 September 1999 “incident” at Bangkok resulted in massive damage to the plane (Flight #1) in which it careened through an antenna building and onto a golf course, digging trenches into the turf. Engines dangled, and although protocol specifies that passengers be evacuated in 90 seconds, they didn’t begin any evacuation for at least 25 minutes. Ceiling tiles dangled. The plane was effectively a total loss, but to avoid declaring a hull-loss, QANTASS saved face by paying more to repair it than it was otherwise worth. Can you evacuate in 90 seconds? Transat 236, a charter flight from Toronto to Lisbon, did such, having glided from 39,000 feet over the Atlantic, having lost all its fuel due to a leak. It then sat on an unused by nice runway at Lajes Airport, Terceira Island, in the Azores, 900 miles from the European shore.

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