This is a few years late, but I trust everyone has heard of Air India’s experiment where they tried carrying three extra passengers on a flight.

Out of the three, one woman was accommodated in the cockpit – modern aircrafts have three seats in the cabin two for the pilot and the co-pilot and one a jump seat that’s usually kept vacant -and two children were made to sit on foldable seats meant for cabin crew during take off and landing.

While they are being rapped for violating safety norms, I applaud them for trying out this experiment whilst not ignoring safety norms. If you read closely, the extra passenger was in the ejection seat. In the event of any problem, they could easily get rid of the extra person.

But Air India still has a lot to learn from the neighbouring PIA (Pakistan International Airlines), which did this experiment the right way. They first experimented with rats, before moving on to humans.

Passengers heaved a sigh of relief when their plane from Birmingham finally landed at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport here on Monday, as they had been pestered by a number of rats who travelled with them all the way from Birmingham to Islamabad.

I am super curious to know if Samuel Jackson was on the plane, mouthing his iconic line, “Enough is enough. I’ve had it with these mother******* rats on this mother******* plane” or the censored version, “I’ve had it with these monkey fighting rats on this Monday to Friday plane“.

As people, we are not too different, are we ?

Link via email by Pushkar S, Tushar B and others.