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Old 01-16-2009, 11:04 AM
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That pilot and staff should receive some kind of an award or special recognition! That's an amazing story. And I heard last night that the pilot is 58 and they had a law in place that you must retire at 60. I didn't get the whole story, but I heard that might have been changed to 65. This man is truly a hero.

I love to fly and have always had the greatest respect for pilots and flight attendants. They are seriously not just "glam" jobs. I have never thought of flight attendants as just "glorified waitresses" as some call them. I know the training they go through and I think they're
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