Melit

Another armchair QB. My apology if you are a trained professional for these kind of situations

UAL T38 Phlyer

^^^^This, and to Tired Soul, too:

In 1989, a MiG-23 from western Poland flew across the inter-German border. Soesterberg Eagles were scrambled...jet was flying a straight line.

When they joined on it...nobody in the cockpit. The pilot had bailed out shortly after takeoff when the AB failed...but the jet kept going.

The intercept pilots and authorities debated what to do. At this point, it was over Frankfurt and the Ruhr valley. They ultimately decided to just monitor it. They hoped it would make it to the North Sea, and then they could splash with less risk (although there is still a lot of shipping there...just less dense than all the villages and hamlets of the continent).

Unfortunately, it flamed out over Belgium, and crashed into a house, killing an 18-year old.

I think in the Q400 case, they were hoping they could get him to land.

tunes

My apologies...latest report says ground service agent now instead of mechanic.

cactusflyer

Reports are now saying that the employee in question was part of the tow team, which means he would have known more about how to use some stuff on the airplane (namely the radio) than someone who wasn't involved in towing the airplanes around.

Flight tracking sites show the last revenue flight the airplane did was YYJ-SEA (which meant the airplane was towed after arriving in SEA), and if it was left on the north end of the airport, it was in one of the few places where there could be sufficient room to taxi the airplane out of the parking spot under it's own power.

domino

He flew the plane better than most new hires

Albief15

Does sitting alert on 9-11 after years of sitting alert in Alaska and Zulu Alert in Germany make me a trained professional?

FYI...when we got rid of missiles on the alert jets for a period since the Ruskies were our friends again (92-95) we kept a hot gun on alert jets and maybe one aim-9? That was a downshift from a full up 4x4 Aim7/Aim9 loadout previously carried. 9/11 had the jets go back to a full WRM...

I wish they'd have shot him down. If only to say "you will die" if you ever try this stupid stunt... Sharing the rambling audio only makes this guy a media darling. Copycats are a potential problem. Expect our flightlines to start to look like prisons.

This guy just made our lives much harder. The TSA intrusion into our workplace just got a lot worse. Lots of stupid stuff by the .0000001% puts more sand in the gears of the rest of us who just want to go enjoy our jobs without being hassled.

Av8rPHX

My thoughts exactly...copycats would be worrisome. "Look how easily he flew it before he started doing stunts".


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Smutter

Why? People go to atp and have all we have in 3 months. We have such an easy job. This **** is funny, this man was having fun, and went out the way he wanted to dangerous to everyone on the ground, but he didnt. Not the first time either, the pilot in Utah killed his girlfriend then stole a crj200 and crashed it.

tunes

While i agree they should have, they probably didnt because of the time it takes to get the actual approval

Stinger6

Ha! I was thinking the same thing!!!