-------------------------------------------- On Wed, 6/18/14, John Lenti <johnle...@hotmail.com> wrote: "So that's just four incidents in maybe 120 flights."
"Just" four incidents!? That's pathetic. Who would feel like getting on an airplane at all if passengers faced the same odds of coming out the other end unharmed? What kind of review would be written about a concert in which the ensemble couldn't even make it through the same percentage of pieces? Folks, we need to stop buying the airlines' schtick that delivering goods intact is some kind of incredible courtesy. They are in the transportation business and are PAID to transport people and goods safely and effectively. Most stories, (like John's of instruments being dropped from great heights or run over by trucks) tell of either gross incompetence, willful negligence or outright malevolence on the part of handlers. That should happen basically 0% of the time. I think the only reasonable solution is to enact a new policy: whenever a damage report is filed, the entire baggage crew responsible must get into locked coffins, be loaded/unloaded on the next outgoing plane by their fellow baggage teams and make the flight in the unpressurized cargo hold. If they survive, damages will go way down in the future. Chris Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A. Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
