[SIDENET]

A very small minority would be in favor of scrupulous adherence to the voluminous rules about flying."

Count me among that "small minority". Those rules are there to keep people alive in an inherently dangerous environment.

[Arkie2]

The guy was just unlucky. What are the odds a chock is going to fly forward into the cokpit and jam the controls. I agree with the guy who says every pilot has hot dogged and if he says he hasn't he's lying.