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What NOT to do w/ a $264 million jet

Started by Jeff Catalina, 02/27/2008 09:22PM
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Posted 02/27/2008 09:22PM | Edited 02/27/2008 09:23PM Opening Post
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Here's something you might want to avoid trying if you're a commercial airline pilot. :S

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/02/27/fly.by.firing.ap/index.html

Maybe "Top Gun" was the inflight movie?

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Posted 02/27/2008 09:52PM | Edited 02/27/2008 09:53PM #1
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ROFL! 8)
I wonder... "what were they thinking???" :S

Is like doing a FLYBY with a SCHOOL BUS with wings! wink
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Posted 02/28/2008 01:01AM #2
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As a pilot all I can say is, simply amazing! What a waste of a huge amount of money for a commercial pilots license and all the ratings it took to fly that plane! 8O
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Posted 02/28/2008 06:49PM #3
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"the airline's chairman, Christopher Pratt, was on the plane when the pilot, Capt. Ian Wilkinson, swooped back over the Boeing plant shortly after taking off."

You don't think the chairman had any influence on the pilot's decision to do a flyby do you?

Ultimately it IS the PILOT'S decision but with the chairman riding shotgun you think he'd have some influence....

betcha the chairman still has his job...
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Posted 02/28/2008 11:13PM #4
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What a wimp!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1ZrNnveIs

This is what he should have done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IV9PZW1N9U

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Posted 03/03/2008 03:19PM #5
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Hmmm...I wonder if the Fly-By-Wire Computers were programmed for this --

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/03/germany.plane/index.html

These pilots today are almost enough to make you go Greyhound.

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