Well; this doesn't sound good.


But; the airline official makes me feel much better...
Uhm...

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This is why there are two people in the front of the plane.

When the dude riding shotgun finds God as he's swandiving off the deep end, there's still someone with his wits about him to continue driving...

We´ve been discovering, lately, that astronauts and pilots are human beings, to our utter displeasure...

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If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.

I understand that... and in most circumstances I wouldn't think twice about it, and I'm sure the plane was in autopiloot, or was switched on rather quickly.
But; this case sounds like there was one heck of a struggle in the cockpit, and there was more at issue than just having somebody be able to control the plane.

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I find it perfectly acceptable, to be honest. Maybe someday that'll occur to people and we'll see fewer idiotic lawsuits and torte lawyers will join the ranks of other failed lawyers in politics to put food on the table...bleh, I'm dreaming again...

...but not always:

(my boldface)

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...22X00388&key=1

Yes; Why can't they say that. I would have had more respect for the airline if the spokesman said something like:
It was an unfortunate personal situation that we could not foresee, but the crew was successful at keeping things safe and under control.

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Right. Screening/training/etc should minimize these types of incodents...and I believe it does, otherwise stories like this wouldn't be so "newsworthy"... but unfortunately people are always going to be people.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

My first thought also. Instead we get the pablum line about never being any risk. There is no moment in life that is completely without risk.

Whenever you hear PR staff or "spokes" people babble like that you can be sure of one thing - nothing they say will be of significant substance.

What in the world do "spokes" people do when there are no news conferences or disasters or lawsuits going on? Do they just kind of hang out thinking of the "correct" thing to say for every possible scenario?

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

They never think of what they say. If they get in front of a mike, they go on auto-pablum mode. "It's all right, everything's fine, nothing's wrong, it's all under control".

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Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

So how were his flying skills affected? The article doesn\'t say.