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Old Jun 16, 2015, 8:17 am
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cruiser9999
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
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I am utterly disgusted with what I am hearing in the media re passengers being disgruntled with their makeshift accommodations and meals. Be thankful that there was a landing site and that you had a roof overhead! Look at how passengers in a somewhat similar situation re a forced landing in Goose Bay (9/11) reacted. They were grateful instead of whining about accommodation and meal service. Yes your barracks may have been cold (although believe it or not, 14 degrees centigrade is quite liveable in Canada) but you had a bed. Maybe a geography lesson would be useful here - Canada is a vast country, largely uninhabited and when there are airline emergencies, the landings are at times in much less hospitable sites than you had i.e. tundra in the middle of blizzards with casualties.
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