Comments on: The dog ate my homework and other lame excuses

By: Sallymay-123

Sallymay-123 — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:28:00 +0000

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By: Karen Fawcett

Karen Fawcett — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:56:00 +0000

The FAA has no other choice but to revoke the pilots’ licenses.
Why is it not going to shock me when we find out they were “tweeting” rather than paying attention to their jobs. It wouldn’t be the first or last time. Now the pilots will have a lot about which to twitter.

By: Laura Townsend Elion

Laura Townsend Elion — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:00:10 +0000

Well, with all the media attention it was assured these guys would face some repercussions – its been announced now that the FAA will revoke their pilots’ licenses. Perhaps harsh for an hours’ lapse, but there was a lot at stake (what if the flight attendant hadn;t alerted them and they had missed, say, communications that they were entering another planes’ airspace?), and a pretty good warning to others.

By: Anne Kerr

Anne Kerr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:29:58 +0000

I was a stewardess back in the 1950′s when those ex-WWII jocks you mentioned were manning the flight decks. Which occasionally led to a whole different hazard involving laps. Seriously, I don’t doubt for a minute that these guys are telling the truth. How many of us have lost an hour – maybe more, at our laptops. Granted, not at 37,000 ft with 147 passengers and cabin crew in the back wondering when they were going to land. The inattention displayed by these pilots resulted in a fantastic tale that captured the 24/7 news cycle and filled the void left by balloon boy’s safe return. Their airline and the FAA have no choice but to mete out some pretty dire consequences.