Communicating with naked people on commercial flights
Airliners really need to sort out their policy and their communication strategy with naked or allegedly naked people on their flights.
The Spanish airline Iberia says a man stripped naked on a recent flight bound for Germany carrying 110 passengers, causing the pilot to turn back to Madrid airport minutes after takeoff. God forbid that the Germans might have had to have seen a naked person on their soil.
"The flight took off around 7:45pm and, not long after, a man took all his clothes off, became disruptive and then locked himself in a toilet," said an Iberia spokesman.
He declined to give the passenger's German nationality but said the incident caused considerable inconvenience to a "nearly full flight of passengers who reached their destination of Frankfurt late, after police had to come aboard to take the man off..." to be naked back on Spanish soil which, no doubt, they took in their stride.
The spokesman added that on this occasion alcohol hadn't played a part...just excessively tight trousers, big bad boxer shorts and a wish for some free expression at altitude.
A toilet is a good enough place to be naked at a head-spinning, trouser and underwar dropping height. It's more thoughtful than wiggling and wobbling around in the Economy section.
Mind you, the Americans are even more paranoid about even the threat of bearing all - but only in First Class, it seems, as this incident testifies to.
If only they had left him to it, let him be naked and even had a bit of fun, using the tannoy system, to communicate something comedic about his "shortcomings," then such incidents would not be such a big deal in such a confined space.
Gauche communications about awkward issues afflict too many businesses and people and only make those situations even more interesting and more awkward. The more relaxed, honest and even light-hearted you are, the more you will be seen to rise above something that should not distract or even detract from what you are.
The Spanish airline Iberia says a man stripped naked on a recent flight bound for Germany carrying 110 passengers, causing the pilot to turn back to Madrid airport minutes after takeoff. God forbid that the Germans might have had to have seen a naked person on their soil.
"The flight took off around 7:45pm and, not long after, a man took all his clothes off, became disruptive and then locked himself in a toilet," said an Iberia spokesman.
He declined to give the passenger's German nationality but said the incident caused considerable inconvenience to a "nearly full flight of passengers who reached their destination of Frankfurt late, after police had to come aboard to take the man off..." to be naked back on Spanish soil which, no doubt, they took in their stride.
The spokesman added that on this occasion alcohol hadn't played a part...just excessively tight trousers, big bad boxer shorts and a wish for some free expression at altitude.
A toilet is a good enough place to be naked at a head-spinning, trouser and underwar dropping height. It's more thoughtful than wiggling and wobbling around in the Economy section.
Mind you, the Americans are even more paranoid about even the threat of bearing all - but only in First Class, it seems, as this incident testifies to.
If only they had left him to it, let him be naked and even had a bit of fun, using the tannoy system, to communicate something comedic about his "shortcomings," then such incidents would not be such a big deal in such a confined space.
Gauche communications about awkward issues afflict too many businesses and people and only make those situations even more interesting and more awkward. The more relaxed, honest and even light-hearted you are, the more you will be seen to rise above something that should not distract or even detract from what you are.
posted: 13 Jun 11