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Southwest Captain Reduced Power Before NYC Crash Landing
The captain of a Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) plane that skidded on its belly at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in July 2013 wrested control from the co-pilot and reduced power shortly before the landing, new documents show. (www.bloomberg.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
As I've been saying for years, political correctness kills. What a scary world we live in, where feelings trump facts.
"The company promptly found another check airman who did sign that captain off."
Yeah, I was teaching a course where one guy would either be sleeping through the entire class, or had his finger buried up his nose to the 3rd knuckle, and then had the nerve to complain to the dean that I "wasn't teaching him". He handed back completely blank quizzes/tests, etc., yet the school wanted me to pass him!!
The school was for adult edjumacation, and as such practically *every* student was on financial aid, which was contingent on their *passing* the course. Aha, so the plot sickens. The school didn't want to lose their bux, so was a "diploma mill" passing through even those who did zero work.
I refused, of course, so they transferred him to the other class where the "teacher" taught them how to click on a button to turn a frowny-face into a smiley-face.
Yah, I can see the job offers for *that* particular skill...
Yeah, I was teaching a course where one guy would either be sleeping through the entire class, or had his finger buried up his nose to the 3rd knuckle, and then had the nerve to complain to the dean that I "wasn't teaching him". He handed back completely blank quizzes/tests, etc., yet the school wanted me to pass him!!
The school was for adult edjumacation, and as such practically *every* student was on financial aid, which was contingent on their *passing* the course. Aha, so the plot sickens. The school didn't want to lose their bux, so was a "diploma mill" passing through even those who did zero work.
I refused, of course, so they transferred him to the other class where the "teacher" taught them how to click on a button to turn a frowny-face into a smiley-face.
Yah, I can see the job offers for *that* particular skill...
"cheapest $2 million the airline ever spent"
Administrative costs of an appeal could easily go over that with attorney fees factored in.
Doesn't include repair/ write-off costs for a dented airframe.
Administrative costs of an appeal could easily go over that with attorney fees factored in.
Doesn't include repair/ write-off costs for a dented airframe.
That is just about where SWA was with this heifer. They should have spent the money before she crashed the plane. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
Would not be surprised, and somehow that incident sounds familiar...
The company promptly found another check airman who did sign that captain off....much to my surprise. I called the CLCA and asked what was going on. He told me that the company had decided to get the captain signed off because she had sued the company on multiple occassions for sexual harrassment and that they were required to have her lawyer sit in the simulator for her check-rides. If they didn't pass her, she would sue again.
I told the LCA that this pilot should never have been allowed to command an aircraft. I further stated that dealing with sexual harrassment lawsuits was above my pay grade, but he could go to the bank with one fact: when she had her incident, or God forbid, accident, I would release both my letters to the media about her incompetence.
Two days later, on her first trip as a 737 captain, she had a minor incident in Austin, TX that scared her so badly she could not taxi the plane off the runway. The copilot called in and said he wouldn't continue the rotation with her.
She was called in, terminated on a "medical" with a 2 million dollar payout. That was the cheapest $2 million the airline ever spent.
I wonder if SWA had been warned about this captain before.