Posted on 07/08/2013 7:07:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not exactly. She married him with the intent of becoming FLOTUS.
I meant to write it was SHE that suffered the seizure.
Actually, I was looking for news about the Egyptian situation not the plane crash. Egypt was barely mentioned on the networks.
Every pilot, at some time or another is a "virgin" on a particular aircraft or at a particular airport. The only way to get experience is by doing it. And the only way to do that is by flying as a trainee on many flights. I'm not certain what the requirements are to be "rated" on a 777, but I am certain that a lot of "trainee" hours of flying it are required, in addition to lots of hours on a simulator.
My post on another thread.
Uhn huh...
I almost thought your nom de jour was rube.... /s
LOL
Just teasing...
From what I have read, the low-time pilot (in a 777, but had lots of other expeirience) WAS the captain.
This approach should have been a piece of cake. But he made a mistake, and i believe due to cultural issues the first officer didn’t correct him until it was too late.
Yeah but not in a 777. He had only 43 hours training hours in it and had only flown it for 9 hours. I believe the mistake was made by all, not just him
Yes, that is the point I was making.
If the first officer is afraid to correct the captain, things like this happen.
This actually happened in another accident involving a South Korean airline.
Been called worse ...:0
That’s just the problem with TV news when something big is happening, especially if it’s the weekend. You’ve got people that aren’t experts in the field, pictures being provided largely at random, and air that is simply not allowed to be dead; add B team producers, directors and talkers and a lot of dumb things get said in rapid succession. That’s why when big things start happening I wait until written stuff starts showing up on the web, written articles don’t have so much pressure to talk at all times, and have the leisure to get their facts straight. Even then they get things wrong, but it’s not the rapid succession of stupid you get on TV.
Because it happened here.
More people killed as a result of the Canadian train crash, but it is hardly mentioned.
Because it wasn’t here. Americans have a long history of not being terribly interested in foreign news, and the media feeds that by not reporting it unless nothing else is happening. And when they do report it they’re always trying to bring it here conceptually, you’ll get things like “40 dead including 3 Americans” to try to make it “American” news. It’s not a good habit, but remember they’re actual job is to sell commercials, not to inform, so they need to feed us “news” we find interesting otherwise we change the channel.
First rule of nitpicking ... ;-)
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