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Earlier, yesterday, the BBC reported that in fact a security person near that plane stopped him and ushered him back to the terminal, so not sure how he actually boarded as it was ready to taxi.

Carlos Belt up! As per your previous posts, you seem to have nothing better to do than stir things up. I was replying to Glynn and Julian, so do not need your oar in!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37033281

An interesting discussion here http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-36985862

A word of advice, Andrew. For your own sakes, never ever publicise your order number on a public forum like here. If you have a validation issue, please submit a Support Ticket at http://support.precisionmanuals.com/Main/frmTickets.aspx I'm sure they will sort you out. EDIT: You just beat me to it, Romain.

Brilliant, Peter. Thanks. Having seen one of those at close up courtesy of a USAF friend at base in Nevada, they are awesome.

Thanks for that, Glynn.

Thank heavens I had the foresight to realise that Microsoft would inevitably end up screwing this, and completely turned off letting them Update anything. Now that link mdriskell points to proves I was right to give them a wide berth. I will not install that Anniversary Update until MS gets its act together. Disaster, beginning to end, Microsoft!

Vinod, what part of the differences between Ray's quoted 'nationalities' and 'nationality' (your quote) are you having difficulty with? But as you say, let's move on. :smile: At the end of the day, everybody who de-planed other than the firefighter who sadly lost his life, was safe

So, it is okay to jeopardise other passengers blocking the aisles while they stopped to collect their hand luggage, waste valuable precious time filming, when they should have been heeding the flight attendants' advice and evacuated immediately?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36985168

Jim, my brother is Australia is best friends with a ex-Uni friend of his, an Indian, also called, Manny.

Excellent posts, Karan & Manny. Puts into perspective what I watched in amazement on that Air France, and later on an Air India flight too, upon touching down on Rwy 27 at Mumbai.

And the technical Press is also reporting that MS is thinking of making it subscription-based in future to recoup giving it away to millions for free before the July deadline. It's already got data collecting in place, so could also go down the road of bombarding an end-user with adverts. Question of 'watch this space'.

Just heard the BALPA's flight safety officer, ex-military and commercial pilot, Steve Randell, of 27 years flying experience, point out that during the safety brief prior to departure, the cabin crew do issue instructions on evacuating an aircraft in an emergency, and how a pilot will only issue that command if it is a life and death urgency, and yet, in that video shot from inside that Emirates 777, smoke can clearly be seen entering the cabin. He suggested that mindsets need to be changed. He also stated that he obtains one of those liquid see-through bags and puts his mobile, his CC,and his passport in it and keeps it wih him during T/O and arrival. Ray, I have a job avoiding old ladies in their moto-scooters, never mind young ladies! :wink: :wink: