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Old 03-22-2014, 07:30 AM
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Got to love the media. All the speculations, all the so called experts they bring on live tv. There was some dude yesterday on CNN that claimed the FO sounded suspiciously with the way he spoke with air traffic controllers. I mean seriously???
He went on to say that both the captain and the FO looked a bit "terroristy."
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Old 03-22-2014, 08:19 AM
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Analyzing from a transcript of an unconfirmed source that was translated 3 times from different languages......???? LOL! There is more credibility in the WWF at that point....!
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Yes and we know the phony parts of WWF.

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Old 03-22-2014, 09:20 PM
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There were probably lots of them... In everyone's smartphone and laptops. Once again, though, fires tend to burn through the plane and take them down in unholy glory within 20 minutes. They tend to not reprogram the FMS and fly along for another 6 hours.
Exactly what was programmed into the FMS? Oh that's right we don't know yet.
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Old 03-23-2014, 01:38 AM
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Old 03-23-2014, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Amjadian View Post
Got to love the media. All the speculations, all the so called experts they bring on live tv. There was some dude yesterday on CNN that claimed the FO sounded suspiciously with the way he spoke with air traffic controllers. I mean seriously???
Because he didn't say "SEE YA"
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Old 03-23-2014, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Amjadian View Post
Got to love the media. All the speculations, all the so called experts they bring on live tv. There was some dude yesterday on CNN that claimed the FO sounded suspiciously with the way he spoke with air traffic controllers. I mean seriously???
Well, along with crash courses in "aircraft everything," they are also psychologists. A lot of what I hear, see, and read in the media makes me cringe when it relates to my own field. I imagine you pilots have done a great deal of your own cringing with regard to theories about the missing aircraft.
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Old 03-23-2014, 07:43 PM
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CNN could at least get a real life 777 pilot/instructor who has actually flown the aircraft in revenue service (and looks the part - think silver haired dude in a uniform) instead of the dude in t-shirt, stash, and goatee that looks like he should be selling stolen hubcaps. Sim instructor - really? MS Flight Sim?

Having this dude together with Anderson Cooper doing his handsome earnest serious thing (is that LeTigre?) has got to be one of the most absurd things I've seen on the news in a long time, the tragedy not withstanding.

Major fail for CNN.
uFly Simulator ? Mississauga, Toronto, Canada ? fly in a real B 777 200ER cockpit ?
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Old 03-24-2014, 03:35 AM
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The experience of thier pilot/instructors is conspicuously absent. So likely not even certified 777 instructors giving approved instruction for the purposes of ratings or currency, but essentially hacks of unknown experience giving amusement rides.

The network news media just went another few notches in credibility if there was any left.

THIS race to the bottom for finding any source, regardless of qualifications for a scoop is a story in itself.
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