Remain seated...and freaked out

Halfway into the flight to LA, a passenger took a photograph and the icy blue flash from the camera bounced momentarily across the dimly lit cabin.

The anxious stares of near neighbours and the swift arrival of a flight attendant illustrated all too clearly the concerns felt by those travelling to a nation targeted by terrorists - for whom the plane is the weapon of choice. - ‘I boarded a plane with an aerosol can’ - BBC News



Comments

[Alan Birnbaum]

Personally I can't imagine ever using a flash aboard an airliner. My cameras particularly my S90 do perfectly well with available light, and of course anything taken through the window shouldn't use flash (and should have the "infinity" setting turned on as well.) Obviously beyond that none of us shoudl do anything to make our fellow passengers, or the flight attendants, nervous.

[Till]

Well, this was probably a case of someone who knows less about photography than you and I. I suppose it was somebody who doesn't even know how to turn OFF the flash on their P&S camera.

It just shows how this poor people is literally scared shitless and hysterical. They got exactly what they wanted.

How can one not do anything that makes them nervous? They are getting nervous if somebody as much as sneezes (biological weapons) or stays in the bathroom too long because he is really sick. I'd recommend not to give in to the hysteria and carry on with business as usual. It will be a more friendly world.