Originally Posted by
rickair7777
That happened at multiple airlines (majors) around the 1960's. It was also a very different era from a safety perspective. Most of those noob also got to fly the panel for a while too, for whatever that's worth.
We had a bunch of thisev’63-‘66-ish hires ar EA. All over the lot—great to awful, mostly mediocre but could do the job if things went well. I had a A Hyd failure on a 727, cappy proud to be hired with Luscombe time. Didn’t go smoothly, let’s say that.