A Grandmother dies during flight MIA-CCS
Dec 11, 2017, 10:18 pm
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A Grandmother dies during flight MIA-CCS
Unfortunately, grandmother who died on AA flight from MIA-CCS. Because she had a heart attacks. They don't know where she's going. Why she flying alone? She didn't have her entire family who took care of her.
Woman dies on American Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas | Miami Herald
My condolences to her existence family. Hopefully someone will claim her body.
Woman dies on American Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas | Miami Herald
My condolences to her existence family. Hopefully someone will claim her body.
Dec 11, 2017, 10:56 pm
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American usually records the information for someone to be notified if there’s any incident when we fly. I’m guessing her family will be Found and notified. That’s very sad.
Dec 12, 2017, 7:42 am
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That was indeed a bit of a interesting add in the article along with the note about her Italian nationality even though you have the bit about not commenting on the medical condition.
Dec 12, 2017, 7:47 am
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I could be wrong, but I think non-US passport holders can opt out from providing emergency contact information on international flights. I think only US passport holders are required to provide emergency contact information on international flights.
Dec 12, 2017, 10:40 am
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ANYONE can opt-out of this.
Dec 12, 2017, 1:10 pm
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Wow. In the liniked aritlce, there's a link to a Spanish-language report about her. When I asked Google to transslate that page:
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
Last edited by sdsearch; Dec 13, 2017 at 12:10 pm Reason: correct which language the report was in
Dec 12, 2017, 2:33 pm
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Wow. In the liniked aritlce, there's a link to an Italian report about her. When I asked Google to transslate that page:
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
Dec 12, 2017, 2:41 pm
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Wow. In the liniked aritlce, there's a link to an Italian report about her. When I asked Google to transslate that page:
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
Muere pasajera en pleno vuelo Miami-Caracas de American Airlines 800Noticias
Google showed me this horribly-translated headline:
American Airlines dies in Miami-Caracas flight
(I don't know why they left out "passenger", because without exactly knowing Italian -- just other romance languages -- I can tell that "passenger" is in the original headline.)
Does Google hate AA or something?
In the translation you see, Google picked what it believed was the correct translation in context. If you copy the headline to translate.google.com, and click the english translation, you will see a better alternate translation of:
"Passenger dies in midair Miami-Caracas American Airlines"
Dec 13, 2017, 12:05 pm
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But I meant that's the headline I get if I click "Translate" when Google offers to "Translate this page".
It's Google that figures out the language (when it offers to "Translate this page"), not me. So the Google's mistranslation was totally independent of my misstating of the language in my post.
Last edited by sdsearch; Dec 13, 2017 at 12:10 pm