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Message from discussion Northwest pilots appeal license revocation - Idiot pilots who overshot airport by 150 miles

Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS

More options Nov 6 2009, 5:42 am

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From: "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2...@yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:42:32 -0600

Local: Fri, Nov 6 2009 5:42 am

Subject: Re: Northwest pilots appeal license revocation - Idiot pilots who overshot airport by 150 miles

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"Dave C." <no...@nohow.never> wrote in
news:20091105135133.86ec5250.noway@nohow.never:

> They absolutely should lose their livelihood. They violated serious
> safety regulations. And as someone else wrote earlier, this
> situation could have been a lot different if their destination had
> been Seattle. Auto-pilot isn't going to turn you around just
> because you are reaching the point where you will have to make a
> water landing due to not enough fuel to circle back to Seattle.
> Even with auto-pilot, someone still has to navigate, and ummmm, fly
> the plane. If two pilots think other activities are more important
> than aviate, navigate, communicate (apparently the computers were more
> important than all three mandatory tasks) then they should be two
> EX-pilots. -Dave

No one is defending what they did. But isn't the penalty too severe in
light of how accepting we are of car drivers who play with cell phones
while driving??? Again i say cell-driving is much more dangerous to others
than what these clowns did.

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