Delta Suspends Pilot Charged In Plane Assault

[PropPiedmont]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21598678/detail.html

 

[CitationLover]

Looks like the psychologist missed another one. Was this the psychologist who blew their brains out?

 

[JoeMerchant]

Looks like the psychologist missed another one. Was this the psychologist who blew their brains out?

A good buddy of mine was shot down by the shrink at Delta.....Now he's at SWA...That whole psych. thing at Delta is just strange when you see some of the folks that make it thru.....Heck, Scope out RJs and General Lee made it if that tells you anything....

 

[Scope out RJ's]

A good buddy of mine was shot down by the shrink at Delta.....Now he's at SWA...That whole psych. thing at Delta is just strange when you see some of the folks that make it thru.....Heck, Scope out RJs and General Lee made it if that tells you anything....

I know it breaks your heart that you didn't get hired:crying:, and that you're just one strike away from more flying and stealing someone else's job!
Heck, everyone got hired somewhere but you. At least you got the whole PFT thing going for you!:laugh:

 

[JoeMerchant]

I know it breaks your heart that you didn't get hired:crying:, and that you're just one strike away from more flying and stealing someone else's job!
Heck, everyone got hired somewhere but you. At least you got the whole PFT thing going for you!:laugh:

Right on cue....hooked the village idiot again....:laugh:

 

[Ticker]

Heck, at least he was awake, wasn't using his laptop and wasn't wearing a diaper or a wig.

...what could go wrong?!?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBvWoT_s-R8

 

[Ad Lib]

Maybe Delta gave the guy time off to get his stuff together. I mean, could anyone go through all of that and be ready to fly? At the least it would be very distracting.

 

[JoeMerchant]

Maybe Delta gave the guy time off to get his stuff together. I mean, could anyone go through all of that and be ready to fly? At the least it would be very distracting.

Good point....The stress could cause him to land on a taxiway or overfly his destination by several hundred miles...

 

[General Lee]

A good buddy of mine was shot down by the shrink at Delta.....Now he's at SWA...That whole psych. thing at Delta is just strange when you see some of the folks that make it thru.....Heck, Scope out RJs and General Lee made it if that tells you anything....

At the end of the psych eval the doctor was telling me his life story, and was crying as I left. He said I was "his hero." Some of the questions he INTIALLY asked:

When I say Delta, what two words come to mind? My answer: Wind Check.

He then asked what I would do if I farted in a restaurant? My answer: Ask for a wind check.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[JoeMerchant]

At the end of the psych eval the doctor was telling me his life story, and was crying as I left. He said I was "his hero." Some of the questions he INTIALLY asked:

When I say Delta, what two words come to mind? My answer: Wind Check.

He then asked what I would do if I farted in a restaurant? My answer: Ask for a wind check.


Bye Bye---General Lee

I rest my case about absurd the test is.....

 

[EMBpilot]

A good buddy of mine was shot down by the shrink at Delta.....Now he's at SWA...That whole psych.....

I think psych is actually doing a good job. Sorry he/she cut you and your buddy. SWA can have him.

SWA hires people who wouldn't run away - they had a big problem with that the first 20+ years. So someone who wouldn't be able to get hired by a better company, after flying 4-6 legs per day with 30 min turns in the same type of airplane, is their prime meat.

Delta has 12000+ pilots now I am surprised with such exposure they are not more in the news.

 

[jehtplane]

At least you got the whole PFT thing going for you!:laugh:

So do a whole bunch of Delta pilots who used to fly for ASA, COEX, etc....

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Good point....The stress could cause him to land on a taxiway or overfly his destination by several hundred miles...

The village idiot always bites on this!

And how many people were hurt/killed by these 2 occurances vs. the last 2 occurances at the regionals??

 

[400ADude]

Good point....The stress could cause him to land on a taxiway or overfly his destination by several hundred miles...

Or he could have done like this Delta Professional:


Suspect denied bond; prosecutor calls it 'worst case' of family violence she has seen
A Peachtree City woman suffered two broken wrists and a broken toe at the hands of her husband, who also raped her at the couple’s home in the Kedron Hills neighborhood Sunday, according to court documents in the case.
This afternoon Michael William Ellicott, 47, was denied bond on several criminal charges filed in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Lura Landis said this is the worst domestic violence case she has seen in her entire 32 year as an attorney. Landis said she has personally spoken to two members of the community who asked that Ellicott remain jailed without bond because they also were afraid of him.
Landis said neither of those people are related to the victim in the case, and they both will testify when a bond hearing is held in Superior Court on the rape charge.
Ellicott was denied bond in the case by Fayette County Magistrate Charles R. Floyd Jr. Only Superior Court judges are allowed to consider bond on violent charges such as rape.
The incident occurred over a period of time Sunday at the couple’s home, listed at 209 Portico Place, according to arrest warrants filed in the case.
Ellicott is charged with rape, three counts of aggravated battery (family violence), aggravated assault (family violence), false imprisonment (family violence) and two counts of cruelty to children in the third degree. The cruelty to children charges are because the violence occurred in front of their two children, according to arrest warrants.
Ellicott’s attorney, Allen Turner, said his client has never been arrested before and argued that he is not a flight risk. Turner said he would be willing to surrender his client's passport.
Ellicott is a pilot at Delta Air Lines, and the company will be looking into the matter, a spokesperson said.
In addition to denying bond, Floyd ordered that Ellicott may not contact the victim nor any of her family members, even in a phone call from the jail.
Floyd said he would revisit the bond matter at a later date should Ellicott gain a bond on the rape charge from a Superior Court judge.
A company spokesperson noted that Ellicott is a first officer, which is the lowest rank of pilot at the company

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/34504

 

[JoeMerchant]

Or he could have done like this Delta Professional:


Suspect denied bond; prosecutor calls it 'worst case' of family violence she has seen
A Peachtree City woman suffered two broken wrists and a broken toe at the hands of her husband, who also raped her at the couple’s home in the Kedron Hills neighborhood Sunday, according to court documents in the case.
This afternoon Michael William Ellicott, 47, was denied bond on several criminal charges filed in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Lura Landis said this is the worst domestic violence case she has seen in her entire 32 year as an attorney. Landis said she has personally spoken to two members of the community who asked that Ellicott remain jailed without bond because they also were afraid of him.
Landis said neither of those people are related to the victim in the case, and they both will testify when a bond hearing is held in Superior Court on the rape charge.
Ellicott was denied bond in the case by Fayette County Magistrate Charles R. Floyd Jr. Only Superior Court judges are allowed to consider bond on violent charges such as rape.
The incident occurred over a period of time Sunday at the couple’s home, listed at 209 Portico Place, according to arrest warrants filed in the case.
Ellicott is charged with rape, three counts of aggravated battery (family violence), aggravated assault (family violence), false imprisonment (family violence) and two counts of cruelty to children in the third degree. The cruelty to children charges are because the violence occurred in front of their two children, according to arrest warrants.
Ellicott’s attorney, Allen Turner, said his client has never been arrested before and argued that he is not a flight risk. Turner said he would be willing to surrender his client's passport.
Ellicott is a pilot at Delta Air Lines, and the company will be looking into the matter, a spokesperson said.
In addition to denying bond, Floyd ordered that Ellicott may not contact the victim nor any of her family members, even in a phone call from the jail.
Floyd said he would revisit the bond matter at a later date should Ellicott gain a bond on the rape charge from a Superior Court judge.
A company spokesperson noted that Ellicott is a first officer, which is the lowest rank of pilot at the company

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/34504

.....and he passed the pysch. test.....

 

[Scope out RJ's]

400ahole: AKA:

Chuck Yogurt
Lawman
Einstein
Texas Jet Jock
Boris Yelling
Lame Lizard
Sky fly


Chuck........................Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaz up?
How's it going since they closed up shop in MKE? Sorry to hear about Midwest. Really. I wish all the best to everyone but you!:laugh:
You still pretending to be a SWA pilot? Unemployment must be a bitch. If you need any help finding a job, you can always apply here!
Let us all know how the job search goes.

Be careful, on that unemployment salary, you can't afford another username account!
Take care buddy!

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Looks like the psychologist missed another one.

Let's say the psych. eval is 99% effective... pretty good, right?

Well, that still could mean 120 nut jobs floating around at Delta.

 

[Mamma]

A company spokesperson noted that Ellicott is a first officer, which is the lowest rank of pilot at the company

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/34504

WTF? What kind of idiotic comment is this? "Out of the two people on the flight deck, this guy is the lowest ranking."

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Anyone remember the Eastern woodchipper guy back in the 80's?

 

[Ticker]

Anyone remember the Eastern woodchipper guy back in the 80's?

Never heard this one. Sounds good. Details??

 

[ultrarunner]

Or the DL captain that was drilling holes in hotel rooms to video the girls. I think the FO had to bail him out on an RON on that one. General will fill us in.

 

[Colonel Savage]

Anyone remember the Eastern woodchipper guy back in the 80's?

Is that like a "Fargo" kind of thing?

 

[jonjuan]

Anyone remember the Eastern woodchipper guy back in the 80's?

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/woodchipper_murder/index.html

 

[Whine Lover]

This is the html version of the file http://mylifeofcrime.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/wood-chipper-killer-gets-50-years.doc.
Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.​

New Haven Register (CT) January 9, 1990
​

'Wood chipper' killer gets 50 years
Author: Mark Zaretsky

Richard B. Crafts was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison for the "absolutely horrendous and barbaric" 1986 crime of murdering his wife, Helle, and using a wood chipper to get rid of the body.

The sentence is 10 years short of the maximum allowed by state law.

"This murder was intentional. This murder probably was premeditated. The defendent showed no remorse," Judge Martin L. Nigro said before handing down the sentence.

"Helle Crafts had a right to live and that right was denied her by the defendant," Nigro said. " . . . In effect, what he has done by the murder of Helle Crafts is to murder the childhood of his children."

Crafts, 52, did not receive the maximum sentence because he had never been arrested before, Nigro said.

Public Defender Gerard Smyth said Crafts will appeal the conviction and will go before the state's sentence review board.

If appeals are unsuccessful, Crafts must serve at least two-thirds of the sentence, or 33 years, Smyth said.

Nigro set Crafts' appeal bond at $1 million. Crafts never was able to raise the $750,000 bond set after his arrest.

Crafts is being held at the Community Correctional Center at Bridgeport. Smyth said he thought Crafts may be transferred to Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers, the state's maximum security prison.

Crafts was accused of killing Helle Crafts, 39, on Nov. 18 or 19, 1986, and disposing of her body along the s************************* of Lake Zoar in Southbury with a chain saw and a rented wood chipper.

Helle Crafts, a Danish-born Pan Am flight attendant, was last seen on Nov. 18, 1986, when a friend and co-worker dropped her off at home after returning from a flight from Frankfurt to Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Crafts was arrested after the state's acting medical examiner declared his wife dead on the basis of less than three ounces of body parts, hair and clothing scraps found along the banks of Lake Zoar.

A jury convicted him of murder Nov. 21 after a second trial that spanned 2 1/2 months. It was the first time in Connecticut history that someone had been convicted of murder - or even tried for it - without a body having been found.

In pre-sentencing presentations, the prosecution portrayed Crafts, a former Eastern Airlines pilot, as arrogant, heartless and obsessed with power. The defense painted him as a likeable loner, "your average guy living in the suburbs."

In sentencing Crafts, Nigro rejected defense motions to either dismiss the case or order a new trial because of various alleged legal errors and the possibility that Crafts' phone conversations may have been illegally-taped by state police in the Southbury barracks.

Crafts, speaking in his own defense, told Nigro he felt he has been miscast by media reports portraying him as cold, calculating and unemotional.

"A great deal has been said about my apparent lack of emotions - `He has ice water in his veins,' " Crafts said. "I have feelings just like everyone else."

Crafts' eyes filled with tears before the sentencing as his sister, Suzanne Bird, pleaded for leniency, saying her brother always fulfilled his family obligations and "cried at daddy's funeral right along with the rest of us."

It was one of few times Crafts showed emotion during the three-year legal odyssey that began with his arrest on Jan. 13, 1987.

When Crafts' other sister, Karen Rodgers, urged Nigro to lock her brother up for as long as possible, the rift the case cleaved in the Crafts family became evident. Rodgers has custody of the three Crafts children.

"The children should have the security of knowing they are safe for the rest of their lives," Rodgers said, adding that she and her husband, David, "can never fill the void left by the loss of their mother."

Crafts told the judge his children, "are the most important thing in the world to me. I love them. I want them to know I love them. I don't think that, even though our relationship is physically interrupted, that it will ever be interrupted in spirit."

Across the Atlantic in Hoersholm, Denmark, Helle Crafts' 71-year-old mother, Elisabeth Nielsen, greeted news of the sentencing with relief.

"I feel that justice has been done in the United States," she said, speaking in Danish to a reporter for Ekstra Bladet, Denmark's largest newspaper. "It is, of course, a great relief for me that it is all over now and that I now can put all these awful things behind me."

Prosecutor Walter Flanagan said he was "very satisfied" with the sentence, which he called "a very appropriate conclusion to a very complicated matter."

Crafts' first trial in New London ended in a mistrial on July 15, 1988 after a 3 1/2-month trial and a state record 17 days of jury deliberations.

Juror Warren Maskell, who for days had been the lone holdout for acquittal, walked out of the jury room and refused to return.

 

[St. Nic]

Don't forget about the two drunk America West pilots

 

[Whataburger]

My local news said he was saying over and over again, "Where is Taxiway M, where is taxiway M, where the f**k is taxiway M. I'm the General, I'm the General, I'm the General. I demand to know where taxiway M is. I have 14,000 posts on FI. Where is M!!! I would fly this DC-3 to Spain if it had any gas in it.":nuts:

 

[viking737]

I like this part from the wood chipper story;

Single stewardesses liked the airline pilots both as future mates or just for a good time while they were on a layover

 

[crj567]

A good buddy of mine was shot down by the shrink at Delta.....Now he's at SWA...That whole psych. thing at Delta is just strange when you see some of the folks that make it thru.....Heck, Scope out RJs and General Lee made it if that tells you anything....[/QUOTE]

It tells us all a whole lot.

 

[crj567]

The village idiot always bites on this!

And how many people were hurt/killed by these 2 occurances vs. the last 2 occurances at the regionals??

Yeach, just keep spitting into the wind, Gen.... The potential for disaster from that taxiway thing was huge. Everyone should say a prayer of thanks that a couple hundred or so were not killed..... Anyone can screw up-and obviously these guys didn't intentionally do something dangerous, but luck was on their side.

Only someone with as little class as you would even draw such a vacant comparison.

 

[crj567]

400ahole: AKA:

Chuck Yogurt
Lawman
Einstein
Texas Jet Jock
Boris Yelling
Lame Lizard
Sky fly


Chuck........................Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaz up?
How's it going since they closed up shop in MKE? Sorry to hear about Midwest. Really. I wish all the best to everyone but you!:laugh:
You still pretending to be a SWA pilot? Unemployment must be a bitch. If you need any help finding a job, you can always apply here!
Let us all know how the job search goes.

Be careful, on that unemployment salary, you can't afford another username account!
Take care buddy!

Really?!?

-Who the hell hired this arrogant putz? I am sure he will be making the papers one day. There are clearly some serious bats in this belfry.