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Flight Cancelled After Disturbance

Last Edited: Friday, 06 Apr 2007, 10:29 PM EDT

Created: Friday, 06 Apr 2007, 7:13 PM EDT

A bizarre and potentially dangerous situation forces Northwest to ground a flight headed to Detroit. It wasn't a passenger causing chaos, it was the pilot. He appeared to receive some type of bad news via cell phone prior to the flight and then lost his temper.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/p...n=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
 
Sounds like like someone got extended or junior manned for Easter! I love that he locked himself in the flight deck. I bet he gets the weekend off.
 
Gee, 40% pay cut, frozen pension, 80 hour minimum lines, crap work rules, another five years before a new contract: and the phone call was either his wife leaving him for a software geek or someone telling him about the MILLIONS Frankensteenland is going to get. Can't imagine why he was having a bad day!

Take it Back!
 
Passengers are the entire reason I want to fly cargo. I was kidding kinda. Heck I have been JM for Easter as well. Good thing I dont like eggs and bunnies! Well except for Playboy Bunnies, grrrrr!!!!!
 
They must think Pilots' are robots. His Wife probably tolf him she was leaving him or maybe a Family member was in a accident?
 
Crews are under stress everyday. Some will handle there personal stress better, some wont. Gotta love how the passengers didnt want the pilot to fly them due to his emotional state. How many of our fellow bretheren out there are getting bad news and still flying? Lots would be my guess. These people want to fly for free yet they forget how we all get paid.

Nobody thinks a pilot is worth two nickles until there arse is sitting in the seat. Then they want the best dang paid, happy, stress free pilot sitting up front.
 
He probably just found out that he could have saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.
 
What about the emotional 35% + paycut he took over a year ago. Thats a lot of stress there. The public didn't seem to care then? :angryfire
 
Now TSA is not going to let cell phones past security, but of course this only applies to crew members.
 
Maybe his wife and his girlfriend were just introduced to each other.
 
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NWA pilots and LAS just don't mix well.

Remember this?

In November 1999, Northwest Airlines Captain Floyd Dean got a look at the meals being loaded onto the flight he was supposed to pilot from Detroit to Las Vegas…and decided he wanted something different. So he got off the plane - even though the Boeing 757 was scheduled for takeoff - and looked around the terminal for something better to eat. When he couldn’t find anything he liked he hopped in a cab ’and continued his search outside the airport,’ leaving 150 fuming passengers stranded on the plane for more than 90 minutes until he returned. Northwest fired the 22-year veteran on the spot for ‘abandoning his plane.
 
I have ZERO sympathy for those stranded passengers. They eaves-dropped on a pilot's personal situation, they proceeded to quarterback him as though they know the job. We fly with stress all the time. Now they're stuck in Vegas for the Easter weekend. Good for them.

Wait... I see an opportunity here. Lets see how far the media will run with this. Perhaps they will ask congress to forbid pilots from flying while under any stress. This will be our "shut-down the system for a day" event we are all looking for since virtually all of us fly with some sort of stress.
 
Funny thing is at CAL they just put out a change in our FOM that we're not allowed to talk on our cellphones in the cockpit. I remind the captain of this when they try to use their cellphone to call dispatch or mx control. Then they have to leave the airplane, find a phone, coordinate with whoever, go back to cockpit to try procedure, back to phone to tell mx what they told him doesn't work, all the while the pax are sitting there wondering what the hell is going on.

Oh well, rules are rules:rolleyes:
 
I nearly Pi$$d my pants laughing so hard at this post. I think all of the above responses are pretty accurate of about why he was upset. What else can the media and public do to screw up pilots careers. I really don't blame the pilot for looking for a descent meal. You know even in Mexico the Mexican airlines feed you a full course meal even in coach. its asanine that here in a first world country you get peanuts. wtf over?
 
Funny thing is at CAL they just put out a change in our FOM that we're not allowed to talk on our cellphones in the cockpit.
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Seriously? What is the reason for this? I like to check in to make sure everything is okay at home and the house is still standing, etc.
 
Riding on this pilot's airplane was the safest thing these people will do all year. It doesn't matter how bumbed out the guy was. We're safer than the highway, the hospital and even the library! I don't care who was on that plane, NO ONE has given up more in their professional lives, and simultaneously delivered a near perfect service, than airline pilots.

That sort of sentiment would make a good full page ad in the USA Today.
 

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