Should you lose your license

[Wanna Fly!!]

Yup, lucky not 6 ft under!!!!! Idiots either way. No radio contact, could have been Abu Musaab himself up there wanting to send another stupid message of - Maybe I can kill 5 or 50, they simply don't care. Full load of fuel, crash head in- who knows what could have happened. I'm tired of the liberal "2nd chances" mentality in the USA! Got to send a message as bad as that may seem.

 

[MVSW]

Yup, lucky not 6 ft under!!!!! Idiots either way. No radio contact, could have been Abu Musaab himself up there wanting to send another stupid message of - Maybe I can kill 5 or 50, they simply don't care. Full load of fuel, crash head in- who knows what could have happened. I'm tired of the liberal "2nd chances" mentality in the USA! Got to send a message as bad as that may seem.

Thats what Iam talking about!!!

 

[Tater Salad]

I completely agree with everyone else. If you can't maintain awareness as to where you are, then you don't need to be flying at all. There are several different things the pilot could have done to get himself out of that situation. They need to make an example out of his stupidity rather then make the rest of us pilots pay for his mistake.

 

[Traderd]

I am getting soft in my old age.


I agree with the revocation but not from the punitive standpoint. I really feel badly for this gentleman and it is evident he should consider giving up flying.


He certainly made a mistake that is hard for most of us to comprehend and there is no excuse for a mistake so easily avoided. At his age, I would guess there will be no attempt on his part to reclaim his certificate.


He has been publicly humiliated and while I don't know this man, I will venture a guess there is much more to his life than this one incident. Hopefully, he will get past this event and reclaim the life he had before all of this notoriety. I for one have sat on more than a few accident investigation boards and all I can say is but for the grace of God....

 

[HerrJeremy]

I read that this guy wasn't even VFR current! He shouldn't have had the passenger on board, not to mention busting the airspace with him. Granted, the student was on the controls at the time; but students can't carry passengers either! So bassically we have two passengers flying around...good greif! This is why the pilot lost his certs, they said he was a "danger to aviation", or something to that effect. Anyone else see this, think I read it on the AP wire?