Put Down The Laptops and Fly the Plane NWA

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Make the accused hand fly the damn plane for 30 days and let's move on. This is getting stupid.

 

[Abernathy]

What's getting stupid isn't the media coverage. Who can blame them? These two morons keep changing their story to make this whole situation look more and more egregious each time. First everyone thought they were asleep. Then they said "no, we were in a heated discussion" about company policy. Now they say they were on their laptops. They are progressively making this profession look more and more like a joke with each statement. Tomorrow they're going to say they were mutually masturbating.

The media has multiple goals. Sensationalism and accountability are among them. They found a sensational story, and they want accountability. No thanks to these two d**chebags. It only took a few months for multiple boneheaded incidents to make what Sully did for pilot PR to completely be overshadowed and vanish.

 

[airplane wizard]

They just reversed all the good publicity from Sulley's Hudson ditching.=(

 

[airplane wizard]

They would have been better off saying they fell asleep then admitting they were playing on the computer.

 

[Abernathy]

They just reversed all the good publicity from Sulley's Hudson ditching.=(

You posted this as I was typing the same damn thing while editing my post. More obvious than I thought. That sucks for us.

They should have left it at "we had no crew meal on this transcon, we were tired from the previous day, and ended up dozing off for about 20 minutes.."

 

[Superpilot92]

These were "mainline" pilots...Let's forgive them...at least they weren't dangerous "regional" pilots..

Here we go again with mr. inferiority complex

 

[Abernathy]

Your avatar looks like a giant hurricane is about to wipe the sh** out of Texas.

 

[Superpilot92]

Your avatar looks like a giant hurricane is about to wipe the sh** out of Texas.

No it was just finishing off Mexico Didnt you hear that Bush controls Hurricanes?

 

[AC560]

You guys actually believe this?

Agree it is hard to believe that even with both using laptops they would miss radio calls for over an hour or not notice where they were at. End of the day probably only two people are ever going to know the real story of what was going on.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

This is why porn in the cockpit has its place!

 

[JoeMerchant]

Here we go again with mr. inferiority complex

No inferiority complex here...Just tired of being lectured to by pilots who land on taxiways and miss destinations by hundreds of miles while they play on their laptop....The "best of the best" aren't doing a good job of representing us lately....

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

These guys have had 80% of their procedures and policy in their airline get changed over the past few months, plus the way they bid changed very significantly this month.

Sounds like their explaination (NOT an excuse) is actually pretty plausible. I wonder when they are going to be deactivating the AC plugs in the cockpit....

 

[JoeMerchant]

These guys have had 80% of their procedures and policy in their airline get changed over the past few months, plus the way they bid changed very significantly this month.

Sounds like their explaination (NOT an excuse) is actually pretty plausible. I wonder when they are going to be deactivating the AC plugs in the cockpit....

:bawling::bawling:

They screwed up...Just admit it....Quit making excuses...

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

:bawling::bawling:

They screwed up...Just admit it....Quit making excuses...

Do you read, or are you just stupid?

 

[JoeMerchant]

Do you read, or are you just stupid?

I read you make excuses for why they did this.....

 

[whaleroast]

This is why porn in the cockpit has its place!

Just to add a strange twist onto this, the captain was from the same town as the infamous Mr. Hands: Gig Harbor, WA.

A little history:
In 2005, Kenneth Pinyan (Mr. Hands) was videotaped getting sodomized by an Arabian stallion. The aerospace engineer for Boeing frequently participated in these videotaped displays, most still displayed on the web. Pinyan died from a perforated colon from the receptive anal sex he received from that stallion in 2005.

So maybe they were trying to get that link and it took them until Wisconsin to finally get it? Just a thought.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

Do you read, or are you just stupid?

Both?

 

[JohnDoe]

I read you make excuses for why they did this.....

You need to work on your reading comprehension Joe.

He clearly stated "NOT an excuse." He said their explanation was plausible. In other words, it is a believable explanation in light of the amount of changes.

He clearly (well, to most) was not saying it was a valid excuse.

 

[JoeMerchant]

"These guys have had 80% of their procedures and policy in their airline get changed over the past few months, plus the way they bid changed very significantly this month."


Read between the lines...The excuses are coming out...The new procedures shouldn't even be a factor unless you are trying to make excuses......

 

[Skyboy722]

Exactly right. And look for FAA and company check airman to meet the aircraft when it pulls into the gate to be there when the cockpit door opens and inspect the cockpit for any contraband. Any newspapers, books, magazines, laptops, cell phones, found and you're fired.

If that's the case then I think we'll see USA Todays blowing around taxiways everywhere...