Originally Posted by
orvil
The story is true. I had confirmation from an old retired guy. I can't remember the name. The pilot in question was being counseled by Pre Ball, back when we had real Chief Pilots and not pencil pushers.
In my squadrons, we had an "off the record" book. In this book, we would record, with great flourish, every major and minor screw up and humorous event. Basically, if a person did something that another person found dumb or funny, the observer would write the story down with embellishments to enhance the tale. DAL needs something like that to preserve the (absolutely hilarious and presently completely not allowed) off color history.
The world is messed up when you are supposed to feel guilty about laughing at something...that happened.