BLOGGING A DISASTER AT 30,000 FEET…
December 28th, 2005[Update -- 1454, 29 December -- In what I can only describe as an amusing at best and distrubing at worst bit of comment snarking by people apparently using IP addresses assigned to Alaska Air are jumping on Jeremy Hermans. I say apparently because, as one commenter writes, a hacker who knows what they're doing can spoof an IP address. Since Hermanns didn't attack Alaska Air or make allegations that it was incompetent, I have to wonder where the snarkiness is coming from?]
Jeremy Hermanns was on board Alaska Airlines Flight No. 536 when it lost cabin pressure at 30,000 feet. Thanks to well-trained pilots, prepared cabin staff and methodical mechanics, the plane quickly descended to 10,000 feet and returned to Seattle’s SeaTac to make a safe landing. Hermanns took in-flight photos and quickly posted them.
Jeff Jarvis takes note of the way Hermanns, KGW and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer cover the event.
My Soundtrack: This Is The Night by The Weird Sisters on WOXY.
[...] Back on 28 December I wrote a post concerning Jeremy Hermanns and Alaska Air flight 536. I later posted an update to that piece about a twist in the story. This afternoon, cathcing up on my reading I find an even more disturbing twist via Salon’s Ask The Pilot columnist who apparently has really ticked Hermanns off. [...]