Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Historically, crossing the threshold of the aircraft is used legally as the declaration of intention to fly... not any of the other mindless speculation from this thread. If you cross the threshold of the aircraft, you have no chance of getting admitted into a HIMS program. Up until that point your career still may be saved.
Interesting. After I posed this question to a local prosecutor, I got a strange look and was offered the scenario of "intent to commit murder" only involves the planning type of answer. You don't actually have to pull the trigger on the gun and find out that it has blanks.
As far as the van driver comment - yes - let's try and say that the van driver did something wrong or even insinuate that other van drivers are going to be getting up close and personal *just hoping* to smell alcohol. I'm sure that a pilot who got into a van with an intoxicated van driver would just turn the other cheek too or maybe we could expect every pilot to save his or her crew from the next intoxicated van driver they come across. Really?
If the facts are as they are currently being presented; there is only one person to point the finger at in this scenario.
USMCFLYR