UNBELIEVABLE: This Is Not How You Deice An Aircraft!

As you may have seen on the news, Istanbul is being hit by a massive blizzard this week.

Typically when a hub city is hit by a major weather event it causes major problems for the local airline, which has certainly been the case here. Turkish Airlines has had to delay or outright cancel hundreds of flights, and by all accounts operations at Istanbul airports are just a mess.

More concerning than the delays, however, is this clip which was shared on Twitter this morning:

I have no words…

Hopefully someone from the airport or Turkish will be able to clarify that this is not, in fact, an acceptable deicing procedure. I understand desperate times calling for desperate measures, but oy — this is not a good idea.

So I generally wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Turkish (I flew them twice last week myself, and had a great experience), but if you’re scheduled to fly them in the coming days you might want to make other arrangements.

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Views from my Turkish flight last week

What do you guys think? Anyone seen something like this before?

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Robert Hanson Diamond

OK, I'll try this comment again, without a URL this time. To see the multi-decade temperature chart will only involve googling the title of the post I tried to link to, which I'll include further down this comment. Dear climate alarmists: Yes, indeed, some 20 or so years ago it was confidently predicted by the Global Warming establishment that by now children 10 years or younger living in New England would have never experienced snow in their lives. Well on Jan 6 of this year every state in the US except Florida had subfreezing temperatures, and the New England area was hit by a snow storm of "historic proportions". Despite increasing levels of CO2 emissions over the past several decades, the other unquestioned predictions by Global Warming models have also totally failed to occur. For instance the US was predicted to be hit by 5, 6, or even more Super Hurricanes like Katrina on a yearly basis. Instead the US mainland hasn't be hit by an actual Hurricane in 10 years. The Arctic that was supposed to be totally ice free every Summer hasn't been anywhere near ice free even once. Most telling is that despite the increased levels of CO2, there has been no warming over the past several decades at all. Sure, due to the occasional El Nino, and the Urban Heat Island effect, local temperatures are up from time to time. But I invite any of you to look at the temperature readings for the Lower Troposphere, as measured by satellites and weather balloons, and show where there has been any warming at all since the 80s: Google: "Earth cooling at the fastest rate on record"

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Robert Hanson Diamond

For everyone who NOW wants to claim that Global Warming causes colder winters and more snow, that's not at all what the Climate models that predicted Global Warming originally said. This is from GeoEnginerring Watch dated March 20, 2000: (Google this title): "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past" "However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent. This year, for the first time ever, Hamleys, Britain’s biggest toyshop, had no sledges on display in its Regent Street store. “It was a bit of a first,” a spokesperson said."

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Robert Hanson Diamond

@ Ryan Well, I did reply, using facts and logic, before my "ad hominem" comment, and that first comment didn't post for some unknown reason. I assumed it was being held for approval since I included a URL to a chart of satellite and weather balloon temperature readings, but now half a day later it still hasn't shown up. I'll try it again below... And I stand by my comment that "right wing BS" is indeed an ad hominem slur with no value in terms of facts or logic. ;)

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J Dee Guest

@Owen S A self-claimed billionaire is '...a man of the people...'? What have you been ingesting?

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Owen Guest

@Eric W "global warming doesn’t mean it’ll never snow again. It means that the planet’s average temperature is slowly, inexorably increasing to unprecedented levels as a result of carb" Sorry, Eric. You and your global elitist friends are just going to have to go back to Davos and cry in your wine. We've seen through your Red Chinese cuckspiracy of global warming. Now that a man of the people is president and not so easily fooled by conspiracy theories, nobody is going to fall for that climate change nonsense ever again.

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