Posts Tagged ‘ pilot ’

US Airways Captain Valerie Wells Discusses Airport Eviction Incident

August 21, 2011
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US Airways Captain Describes Airport Eviction CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the first time, a US Airways captain has publicly described an incident where two security officials escorted her from the airport’s secure area after she would not fly a plane from Philadelphia to Rome because of electrical system problems. Captain Valerie Wells, a 30-year pilot, discussed the June 16 incident on Friday in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, where she was the star witness in the pilots union’s defense against the airline’s suit...

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JetBlue Passenger Picks Up Pistol Packing Pilot’s Backpack!

January 14, 2011
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Hmmmm..... where's my gun? It was here a minute ago.

Embarrassing JetBlue snafu! Airline pilot loses gun and flight gets grounded Airlines losing luggage is nothing new, but at JFK Airport Thursday, a JetBlue pilot lost his bag - and his handgun. The Transportation Security Administration is probing Michael Connery Jr. after an embarrassing mixup nearly sent his government-issued firearm to Florida, while he was due to fly to Pennsylvania. Connery, who is licensed by the TSA to pack heat in the cockpit, was the scheduled co-pilot on an 8:10 a.m. flight out of JFK to Pittsburgh, law...

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United pilot spills coffee causing hijacking scare and emergency landing

January 5, 2011
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Coffee spill causes hijacking scare Pilot’s coffee mishap triggers hijack alert Alert sent out after coffee spilt over equipment Plane diverted to Canada as a precaution A PILOT’S spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, to make an unscheduled stop in Canada. A Transport Canada report said United Flight 940 was diverted to Toronto and landed safely at Pearson International Airport. The coffee sent out distress signals including code 7500, which...

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Pilot Sentenced for Selling Drug Test Masking Product

September 3, 2010
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Pilot sentenced for marketing drug-masking product By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A former commercial airline pilot was sentenced to nine months in prison this morning for selling a product online designed to mask drugs in a person’s urine to beat drug tests. Stephen Sharp, of Port Orange, Fla., operated the website, yourintheclear.com and sold a powder to be mixed in cranberry juice one to five hours before a scheduled drug test. The website promised a 100 percent pass...

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Southwest Pilot ‘Flashed’ by Nude Cabaret

September 1, 2010
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Dallas strip club shuts off spotlight after complaint by pilot landing at Love Field By Gloria Salinas- Dallas Morning News The owner of a Dallas strip club has agreed to shut off a large spotlight that distracted a Southwest Airlines pilot landing at Love Field over the weekend. The pilot of Flight 939, from Albuquerque, N.M, was just four miles from the airport Sunday when a spotlight shined into the cockpit. The pilot was able to land safely. “We’re...

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Big Ooooops! 747 Pilot hits wrong button, announces water “landing”!

August 27, 2010
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Not to be confused with the "sit back and relax" button.

We’re about to crash, jet passengers told in error ‘They said the pilot hit the wrong button’ LONDON — British Airways apologized on Friday after a crew member mistakenly played an emergency message warning Hong Kong-bound passengers that the plane they were on was about to plunge into the sea. About 275 passengers on a Tuesday flight out of London’s Heathrow Airport heard the message: “This is an emergency. We may shortly need to make an emergency landing on water,”...

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Delta Passenger removed from flight after voicing concerns about pilot

August 4, 2010
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Should passengers speak up? Was Delta correct removing her from the flight? Unfairly bumped? by Toni Guinyard (KNBC) TOLUCA LAKE, CA (NBC) – A California woman was recently kicked off a Delta Airlines flight after reporting that she thought she had smelled alcohol on the Captain’s breath. Cynthia Angel said the incident occurred on July 19th as she was trying to travel home to Southern California from Georgia. Angel said the trouble occurred after she and three other passengers had...

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Ever Wonder Who Invented Luggage With Attached Wheels?

July 10, 2010
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Even carrying two bags isn't difficult with rolling luggage.

I get a kick out of people watching during airport sits. And believe me, flight attendants have a lot of airport sit time! Most will go to a ‘crew lounge’ (if available) for napping, eating, reading, or just to catch up with colleagues. Not me. I’d rather sit in the terminal observing the constant motion and parade of people on the go. No doubt, airports are fascinating, and always entertaining. Rolling luggage is such a common site, and a...

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Daddy Stork~ “Maybe Cribs Should Come With a Flight Attendant Call Button”

June 8, 2010
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by Daddy Stork , full time pilot and part-time stay at home dad. In the cockpit, when an alarm sounds, the first response is to “Identify and Cancel” the warning. This is the call to acknowledge the source of the alarm, silence the warning and then determine a course of action. If there are several warnings, you prioritize them – often based on the color of the alarm. Yes, our planes are color coded. Cyan = Let’s hope it...

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Mass. State Police Confirm Distraught JetBlue Pilot Was Armed

May 21, 2010
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Hmmmm..... where's my gun? It was here a minute ago.

“The person was so distraught that he was threatening to harm himself in spectacular fashion,” Naccara said in an interview with WBZ-TV. “Never did he threaten the aircraft or the passengers or anybody involved with the plane itself.” BOSTON (AP) — A JetBlue pilot who threatened to “harm himself in spectacular fashion” surrendered a gun to authorities in Massachusetts after they confronted him just before he boarded a flight at Logan International Airport, law enforcement authorities said Friday. The...

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Boston: Mixed Reports Concerning Possible Threat(s) by JetBlue Pilot / UPDATED 05/21/10 07:50am

May 20, 2010
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TSA airport official claims JetBlue pilot threatened to harm himself only

JetBlue Pilot Threatens To Crash Plane WBZ News Boston, May 20, 2010-A JetBlue pilot threatened to crash the plane he was set to fly out of Logan Airport Thursday afternoon, a source has told WBZ NewsRadio 1030. The pilot, who has not been identified, was taken into custody at Logan for allegedly sending an email to his girlfriend in which he said if they did not reconcile their relationship, he was going to crash the plane. The officer was questioned...

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O’Hare, Two Stories, and the Connection

March 20, 2010
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Story Number One Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago .  Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. . Capone had a lawyer called Easy Eddie (aka “Fast Eddie”). Easy Eddie was Capone’s lawyer and for a good reason. He was very good!  In fact, his skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time. To show...

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Air Canada Dismisses Crew Concerns About Suicidal Pilot

March 19, 2010
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The Canadian Press Friday Mar. 19, 2010 TORONTO Air Canada is standing by a pilot at the centre of a bizarre incident two years ago in which co-workers refused to fly with him, fearing he was suicidal and accusing him of threatening to ditch his aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. The airline insisted Thursday that the eyebrow-raising circumstances emanating from a dispute aboard a Toronto-Paris flight in July 2008 amounted to nothing more than a minor conflict between staff and...

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Air India Operates All-Female Crews on Select Flights, Int’l Women’s Day

March 8, 2010
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In1936, Sarla Thakral, a 21-year-old married woman with a four-year-old daughter, soared into the sky. In the cockpit of a Gypsy Moth, dressed modestly in her saree, Sarla’s flight into the firmament landed her a place in history. She became the first Indian woman to fly. Sarla’s husband and her father-in-law helped her achieve the ambition. CHENNAI: As part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, Air India operated an all-women crew flight on select sectors in international and domestic...

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