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Flight attendant helps land plane...?
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Flight attendant helps land plane...? |
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Posts: 2 (11/20/08 14:37:52) |
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Kimmar |
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Posts: 13 (12/22/08 08:57:54) |
The "flight attendant" was also a *fully trained commercial pilot*, so no worries. She didn't *land* the plane, she probably worked the radio and
let the co-pilot do the landing. No worries there he does a takeoff and/or a landing on probably *every* flight he flies and is rated to fly that plane alone
if necessary. There was never any threat to anyone on the plane.
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Posts: 724 (12/22/08 09:32:19) |
Yeah, if I had been a passenger on that flight and and heard that some former fighter pilot in the raid on Daquiri with a drinking problem--you know, the kind
of guy who would tell his life story to whomever sat next to him--was the one to help land, I'd have probably had a couple drinks to dull the fear.
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