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This is what happens if you try to sneak a Galaxy Note 7 onto an airplane
In the wake of Samsung officially axing Galaxy Note 7 production last week, the FAA this past Friday banned all Note 7 devices from U.S. flights. Whereas previous bans prevented passengers from charging or using a Note 7 device in the air, the Note 7 is now classified as a forbidden hazardous material because it may "cause an ignition or a dangerous evolution of heat or become a fuel source for fire." (www.yahoo.com) Ещё...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I'd like to know who came up with the maximum fine amount of $179,933. Some complex numbers must have been crunched to arrive at such an odd amount.
Maybe it's metric?
Historically, things like this were kept as nice, round numbers. And from 2012 until this past August, it was still a nice, round number ($175,000). Enter the "Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015" (quite a mouthful). Since the existent penalty figure dated from 2012, it was adjusted up by a factor of 1.02819. Voila! - $179,933 (and 25 cents).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m-16-06.pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m-16-06.pdf
Just a nice, round number.
Office coffee prices rising, team of expert homeland defense experts and lawyers flying to location and their hotels and dinner prices, over weight baggage fees for the same after massive shopping spree, overtime pay, hazardous duty pay being near Note 7. You know, the usual procedures and figuring.
So this will be a farce, just like when a passenger smokes on a plane or does something against FAR's...the local police likely won't show up and if they do they are powerless to detain or arrest on a federal regulation. The FBI or a some other federal agency needs to be in all the airports in the US to handle these situations.
I know what you are all thinking, "I've seen police do XYZ or meet the airplane," yes you have. But they are powerless to do anything about a violation of a FAR on board the airplane--including following crew member orders. The police will arrest fighting passengers at the gate or on the ground or disorderly passengers and so on.
I know what you are all thinking, "I've seen police do XYZ or meet the airplane," yes you have. But they are powerless to do anything about a violation of a FAR on board the airplane--including following crew member orders. The police will arrest fighting passengers at the gate or on the ground or disorderly passengers and so on.
Was a mechanic for years and came across such people who you couldn't get it thru to them it was not ok.