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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Nope. He was a high up FAA official and he KNEW the pilot was pulling a fast one. It was a time of pilot unrest in that airline.
I flew that airline extensively and was in the Chairman's Club, their top level frequent flier category requiring 100,000 miles flown per year. I knew several pilots, flight attendants and even gate agents in three airports well. Several of them had confided in me what was going on within the ranks. This time it was the pilots; other times it was flight attendants. The airline was not well run. It consequently merged into US Airways (Useless Airways) and then into American Airlines.
I was on this flight. Fortunately the pilot and crew were top drawer! Smoke Detected in lavatory; US Airways Express Flight Makes Emergency Landing | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster
Growing up near Kirtland Air Force Base early on I developed an interest in aviation. I recall on my first ride as a passenger in a private plane from Ruidoso to ABQ the pilot who was giving me a free hop home told me that he needed to wait until the weather cleared at ABQ before we could take off. We waited a couple hours, got the clearance and took off. He explained to me "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots." I took that advice, unlike JFK Jr! 10 mistakes JFK Jr. made - AOPA |
My next door neighbors' best friends' cousin used to know a coworker that met a pilot once.
All the experts here are laughable.