Captain Sticky Fingers

[eaglefly]

I thought that was a Delta pilot who killed his wife, froze her, and put her through a wood chipper into a lake, Fargo style. He got caught because when he returned the rented wood chipper, they found bone fragments inside. Lesson learned: buy the wood chipper, don't rent.

Him too ?

God, it's been a nuthouse up in the majors................I guess anybody can slip through the hiring process there as easy as the regionals.

I'm referring to that banana up in Chicago (DC-10 F/E at the time), who was caught in the garage before he could finish the job. My guess is he saw what his fellow majorees were in the process of allowing and cracked.

 

[AC560]

I guess anybody can slip through the hiring process there as easy as the regionals.

Crazy **************************************** aren't unique to the airline industry (majors or regionals).

 

[CFI2766]

WHOOOOAAA THERE!!!!!

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I wasn't there, I've not seen the tapes. However, I'll be D@MNED if I take anything that the TSA says at straight face value. These arrogant oxygen thieves would do anything to get their name in the paper. It wouldn't suprise me at all if this turned out to be a misguided delusion of grandeur on the part of a former check-out clerk at wal-mart. Combine that with a well-known desire for sensationalism by the press, and I see the ingredients for serious slander.

I don't know this guy at all, but I think perhaps we should not rush to judge. He is, MESA and all, one of us.

(Now, if the dumb sumb!tch did do this, he deserves to have his ATP revoked.)

 

[Andy Neill]

Originally Posted by Snapshot
Wow.

I'm pretty sure that stealing from passengers while in uniform violates the "Be of good moral character." requirement.

I don't have a current FARs but I heard that they removed this requirement.

Still there - 61.153c

 

[Midnight Flyer]

WHOOOOAAA THERE!!!!!

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I wasn't there, I've not seen the tapes.
I don't know this guy at all, but I think perhaps we should not rush to judge. He is, MESA and all, one of us.

Police said Christopher Newton, 34, was spotted on camera on Thursday taking a iPod out of someone else's container while going through a security checkpoint.

We're all pilots here, and most of us have even worked in other types of jobs before becoming pilots. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, pilots are some of the cheapest people around. Not all, but many are. Where do you think they come up with the joke about how copper wire is formed? Two pilots fighting over a penny.
It doesn't surprise me that a pilot stole the ipod.

 

[Fred Rogers]

(Now, if the dumb sumb!tch did do this, he deserves to have his ATP revoked.)

What does an ATP have to do with stealing (BESIDES the moral character?)

Shouldn't he be punished in the exact same way that another passenger would be punished if they stole the iPod?

They are right when they say that we eat our young, or whatever it is that they say like that.

 

[Snapshot]

He has proven himself to be far too stupid to be allowed to continue in this profession.

I'd say it's more a case of "Culling the Herd" than "eating our young".

Would you want your family in the back of the plane with their lives depending on his decisions?

 

[shamrock]

Police said Christopher Newton, 34, was spotted on camera on Thursday taking a iPod out of someone else's container while going through a security checkpoint.

It doesn't surprise me that a pilot stole the ipod.

So just out of curiosity, will this thread be deleted like the ASA craigslist one? That thar looks like personal info to me.

From the rules of flight info.... here ya go.

NO personal information about others or members of the forums, except by Websitemaster/Moderator exception, may be posted......

I will not stand by and watch you guys destroy someone because they made a fullish mistake. Not to mention the liability that allowing such behavior imposes on us.

 

[Flyer1015]

... and in a realted news story, a teenager at Jacksonville airport reported his hair gel and backpack missing.

 

[say again]

... and in a realted news story, a teenager at Jacksonville airport reported his hair gel and backpack missing.

i swear that the backpack was gel free- it was planted there by an unknown source!

 

[Midnight Flyer]

So just out of curiosity, will this thread be deleted like the ASA craigslist one? That thar looks like personal info to me.

You're right, maybe I shouldn't have posted his name, because of FI's rules.
On the other hand, it was already posted via a newslink and besides, it's public information anyway.
I just copied it and reposted it because someone said that the incident was not caught on camera.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Maybe the ADA will come to his defense should he claim to be a kleptomaniac.

 

[acaTerry]

... and in a realted news story, a teenager at Jacksonville airport reported his hair gel and backpack missing.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[shamrock]

You're right, maybe I shouldn't have posted his name, because of FI's rules.
On the other hand, it was already posted via a newslink and besides, it's public information anyway.
I just copied it and reposted it because someone said that the incident was not caught on camera.

I wasn't blaming you, the thought just crossed my mind when I saw his name.

I really don't care about the Craigslist post being deleted, it just seemed to me that this is a similar situation, something was posted publicly in both cases. The difference is that people wanted to give the craigslist guy the benefit of the doubt (though he was never named) but are condemning the Mesa guy, who has been named. If he's guilty then so be it, but the situations seem much alike.

 

[pgcfii2002]

He claimed he took the iPod because he said it would just be confiscated by airport employees, according to the report.

What an idiot!!!!!!!!

 

[CFI2766]

I am simply suggesting that there might be more to this story than the evening news would provide. Who really knows? It's possible he had good intentions of returning said Ipod on the other side of security. It's possible the video isn't as conclusive a we are led to believe.

Similar to the Craig's list guy, I think that the benefit of the doubt is certainly earned by this guy by simply being a member of our profession. If he made a mistake, so be it. If he's a scumbag, well, that's why the ATP requires good moral character.

 

[PCL_128]

Where do you think they come up with the joke about how copper wire is formed? Two pilots fighting over a penny.

How can you keep an airline pilot busy for hours? Throw two pennies under his chair and tell him there were three. :laugh:

 

[Oakum_Boy]

The had to remove the "moral character" caveat due to Mesa (and others') hiring problems.

 

[Midnight Flyer]

How can you keep an airline pilot busy for hours? Throw two pennies under his chair and tell him there were three. :laugh:

:beer: great!

 

[Way2Broke]

That guy sounds like a tool. But I have to say that the article was very poorly written. How many times does it say "the report said." My favorite part was when the article stated, "some airports have cameras."