Couldn't happen to Southwest, they'd see the mud coming up and just rotate. That's why they taxi the way they do.

Following taxiway lines is hard.

I've got no dog in this fight. But off the top of my head, 3701 happened WAY before Colgan and Pinnacle were merged.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Airlines_Flight_3701

So you're full of it...

He was being sarcastic. :rolleyes:

Some people wouldn't know sarcasm if it bit em on the arsh.

2823, in 2005. Need more examples?

http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/flying-cheap/incident/20050317X00323/1/

Maybe. It didn't come across as sarcasm at all, in the face of numerous accusations that Colgan pilots were bringing down the safety record. It appears he was serious, and full of bologna...

Maybe? Read it again.

lol

Video and stills.

Plane goes off runway at Hobby Airport | News - Home

Perhaps he was too busy to mind that pesky taxiway line (they're for noobs anyway) and instead was giving the FO some life advice or lecture about:

1. The economy and what we have to do to fix it
2. How minorities and women pilots always get hired to mainline first
3. Some great penny stock he just put his life savings into
4. How he used to be addicted to crack, but turned his life around at Gulfstream Flight Academy
5. How he failed in everything else in life until this seniority-based promotion system gave him the opportunity to make $90,000/year with no education and no accountability
6. Some pointless rant about how some hotel didn't have stale toast and bagels this morning
7. How he doesn't understand why we have to do things the (insert airline name here) way
8. The impending pilot shortage. We're all going to be 797 captains!
9. His pretend "flow" to Delta, a shrinking airline

10. Add your own! This will be fun!