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Northwest pilots' licenses revoked; Franken calls for cockpit laptop ban
Minnesota Public Affairs News Service ^
| October 27th, 2009
Posted on 10/27/2009 8:49:18 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: swatbuznik
I’d still be more embarassed about the Twins at the moment.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:00:17 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("All right then. I'll go to hell." -Huckleberry Finn)
To: gwilhelm56
I am convinced that Bachmann fans dont eat toxic lutefisk
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:00:20 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: presidio9
Video games or porn? Or were they checking out Free Republic?
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:00:52 PM PDT
by
stop_fascism
(Georgism is Capitalism's best, last hope)
To: presidio9
Guess I will be the only one, but I feel bad for the guys. It does not take long at all to go 150 miles in a jet traveling at high speeds.
What they did was dumb, I think they could have been furloughed for a time period, schooling on proper procedures reemphasized, etc. etc.
There is a lot of harsh punishment without loosing their jobs.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:03:25 PM PDT
by
rose
To: presidio9; pnh102
Where is Captain Obvious when you need him?
To: stop_fascism
Or were they checking out Free Republic? That might explain why Senator Franken chose them as his first official political project.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:03:49 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("All right then. I'll go to hell." -Huckleberry Finn)
To: presidio9
Can you get the internet in the cockpit of a plane at 30,000 feet? If the pilots could not get on the internet, Besides watching DVD’s, what use or fun would a lap-top be to keep them so engrossed for 76 minutes?
The story still does not seem complete.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:08:59 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: originalbuckeye
Where is Captain Obvious when you need him? Captain Obvious can't be making an appearance every time Senator Franken opens his mouth.
His early routine in comedy (which Jerry Seinfeld stole and perfected) consisted of pointing out the irony of everyday coincidences.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:10:14 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday -WC Fields)
To: stop_fascism
Or were they checking out Free Republic?losing a mere hour and a half ain't NOTHING whilst FReeping.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:10:22 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Smells funny. First the Department of Transportation doesn’t issue licsenses. Second, a 10 day letter is the most that can be delivered. it in no way suspends, removes or requires the surrender of any certificate issued by the FDOT.
Northwest Airlines has more stringent rules. If the flight crew involved has been suspended it was NWA which envoked the suspension. Not the FAA or FDOT.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:12:27 PM PDT
by
MCCC
To: presidio9
a day after Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., called for a ban on using laptop computers in airline cockpits. Grandstanding buffoon.
They are already banned.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:13:26 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: MCCC
You’re on the something there.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:19:23 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: presidio9
Sorry... BS meter is still pegged. You don’t ignore Air Traffic Control for 1.5 hours for browsing on the internet. These guys were asleep.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:24:34 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
(You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
To: presidio9
"Franken calls for cockpit laptop ban"
Captain ACORN is going to make an excellent dem congresscritter...he's as sharp as a marble.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:33:08 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(To Congress: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10!)
To: pgyanke
You would be correct if the airplanes were there for ATC.
ATC is there for the airplanes, not the other way around.
Regan proved it when he fired PATCO in 1982.
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:36:44 PM PDT
by
MCCC
To: presidio9
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posted on
10/27/2009 9:45:06 PM PDT
by
LaineyDee
(Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
To: PGR88
^Can you get the internet in the cockpit of a plane at 30,000 feet?^
I was wondering the same thing and was hoping someone would provide an answer.
To: presidio9
Franken, you idiot!
Which would you rather have:
Pilots accessing their manuals and FAA regs with a few keystrokes on a laptop.
OR
Pilots carting stacks of binders into the cockpit and being forced to sift and flip through numerous books during an emergency.
By all means, let’s be really safe and ban laptops in the cockpit.
To: PGR88; the anti-liberal
“Can you get the internet in the cockpit of a plane at 30,000 feet?”
Nay.
To: presidio9
It must have been a real tense auction on Ebay.
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