"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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If nothing was wrong, why did you get off the plane?

He already explained that. In fact, that's what his initial post was about.
Did you read it? He left the airplane on a "hunch".

And there is nothing wrong with yelling fire in a crowded theater, if it's
on fire.

What if you simply think that the theater might catch fire at some later
moment. Is it okay to yell "fire" in the crowded theater then?

100 people died in a Rhode Island nightclub last year because people
waited
too long to"yell "FIRE"".

Your assertion is that someone should have yelled "fire" before the club
actually caught fire? Or are you claiming that the fire was allowed to
progress for some significant time before it occurred to anyone to say
anything about it?

Regardless, that case (and others like it) had much more to do with
violations of safety rules than it did with the actual fire. And, I
seriously doubt that once an actual fire was present, anyone sat around
wondering whether they should say something about it.

The whole point here is that the original poster did not KNOW anything. And
in fact, seeing as how the flight proceeded uneventfully, it could even be
argued that his "hunch" was wrong. It would have been irrepsonsible at
best, and criminally disruptive at worst for him to make a general
announcement to the other passengers that he believed something to be wrong
with the airplane. There was absolutely no actual evidence to that effect.

Get off the guy's back. You might be willing to go around making
pronouncements regarding things you know absolutely nothing about, but that
doesn't mean that's reasonable behavior, nor that you have the right to
criticize someone else for not doing so.

Pete