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Posted on 08/14/2014 10:26:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Some posters will claim its Tony Stewarts fault.
How does someone not realize they’ve dropped 5k feet? Unless it was a slow sink rate - but - shouldn’t they have been on auto-pilot? Boeing planes have an altitude deviation alert at 700’ +/- when auto is selected. You drop and it’ll bark at you. Naps aren’t that big a deal though. Canadian pilots are authorized power naps (just saying). ATC should have been monitoring and call ... anyway there has to be more to the story than the knee jerk reporting as they usually do...
Immediate termination and fining. Unless, of course, she is a member of a protected victim group, in which case she can fly and endanger other people.
Ya, just read it and answered in MHO - full story not in but as usual the news reports inaccurate stuff before full story in.
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Love reading this stuff while waiting to board an 11 hour flight. Ugh.
Don’t be judgmental. Support Sisterhood!
After all, she just overlooked one switch and that cockpit is sooo confusing.
Fiddle - I’m just curious as to why the drift down and no barking from the flight computer ... makes no difference if she was on her iPad or the captain was dozing - just saying the full story is still out there. The MSM always likes to get all hysterical ...
Of course the Lamestreamers are hysterical. As would you be, if your salary depended on decreasing sales and you watched advertising money going to the Internet.
Isn’t it fun to watch them hyperventilating in unison?
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