Ooops.A pilot spilling coffee in the cockpit of a plane flying over the Atlantic Ocean forced it to turn back and land in Ireland.
The hot coffee damaged an audio control panel, which gave off an electrical burning smell and smoke, an accident report found. It created significant communication difficulty for the pilots flying the Airbus A330, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said.
Careful with that coffee, Eugene
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Careful with that coffee, Eugene
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... rsion-aaib
DId you hear the one about the jurisprudence fetishist? He got off on a technicality.
Re: Careful with that coffee, Eugene
From the 1964 movie "Fate Is The Hunter" story board, "...ignoring the fire warnings on both engines. The plane returns safely to the airfield. McBane is disheartened that he was not able to solve the mystery of the identical second engine failure, when he notices the pilot's coffee cup on the console had spilled during the turbulence of the first engine shut-down. He opens the console's access panel and finds that coffee had seeped through the seams, shorting out the wiring of the warning system."
