Southwest Lands at Wrong Airport
01-26-2014, 05:10 PM
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If this is true, I'll lose all sympathy for those guys.
Maybe they should ban non-pilots from the JS. Don't know about the rest of ya'll but I get real non-talkative below 10K on the JS.
Maybe they should ban non-pilots from the JS. Don't know about the rest of ya'll but I get real non-talkative below 10K on the JS.
01-26-2014, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Larry in TN
There have been three recent wrong-airport landings; SWA, Atlas, and the US Air Force (C-17). Of the three, the USAF is the only one that has had multiple wrong-airport events.
01-26-2014, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Maybe they should ban non-pilots from the JS. Don't know about the rest of ya'll but I get real non-talkative below 10K on the JS.
So, its not just non-pilots who are a problem.
01-27-2014, 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Packrat
Personally, I've had to shut up two PILOT jumpseaters who were busy discussing waterskiing as we descended below 10K.
So, its not just non-pilots who are a problem.
So, its not just non-pilots who are a problem.
01-27-2014, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Larry in TN
Aren't dispatchers still required to have periodic observation flights?
Originally Posted by Packrat
Personally, I've had to shut up two PILOT jumpseaters who were busy discussing waterskiing as we descended below 10K.
So, its not just non-pilots who are a problem.
So, its not just non-pilots who are a problem.
In all fairness, she (the FO) was easy on the eyes
And that's not an isolated incident. Complacency and human nature. I would wager 99% have at one time or another violated sterile cockpit rules.
The article referenced about the investigation was hack journalism. The NTSB listed that as one of the many factors being investigated. The reporter keyed on it due to a lack of real operational knowledge. (Surely there can't be a non-pilot sitting in the cockpit... That's insane. They just let any guy off the street sit up there). The article could have just as easily, and accurately, used the headline "NTSB: captains lunch could have prompted errant flight".
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