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Delta Pilot Snaps at Air-traffic Controller in Heated Exchange
WSB-TV ^ | July 28, 2014

Posted on 07/28/2014 1:33:15 PM PDT by Cecily

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To: Cecily

1. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.

2. The comments from all the losers below the article are hysterical. They can’t stand anyone they think makes a lot of money.


21 posted on 07/28/2014 1:57:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: Cecily

CNN will run this as breaking news 24/7 .....


22 posted on 07/28/2014 1:58:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: skeeter
According to what little we see here, the pilot is complaining that he didn’t receive detailed enough instruction.

He had his plates to follow. Ground gets really busy and they expect the pilots to keep up. I have taxi'd at some exceptionally busy airfields and have know what to do every time.

23 posted on 07/28/2014 1:58:51 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Cecily

Sounds like the ATC didn’t tell the pilot how to get out there.

Sounds like the ATC can’t speak standard English.


24 posted on 07/28/2014 2:06:03 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Cecily

Warms the cackles of the heart as a passenger. Used to like flying but now the experience usually sucketh....


25 posted on 07/28/2014 2:17:31 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: gaijin

Have you attended college lately?

You think those grad student teachers’ assistants, that the average undergrad is stuck with, speak standard English?


26 posted on 07/28/2014 2:18:02 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Cecily
Not being a pilot or an air traffic controller I guess I'm in no position to pass judgment here but one would think that it *is* essential for the controllers to give proper instructions and for pilots to obey those instructions.Both are high pressure jobs and pressure sometimes gets to people.
27 posted on 07/28/2014 2:19:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Obadiah
You tell your old man to try carrying Walton and Lanier around on his back for 48 minutes!
28 posted on 07/28/2014 2:21:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: skeeter

“According to what little we see here, the pilot is complaining that he didn’t receive detailed enough instruction.”

Sounds like the pilot goofed and turned down the wrong taxiway.


29 posted on 07/28/2014 2:32:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: gaijin

“Sounds like the ATC didn’t tell the pilot how to get out there.”

The pilot has an airport map. If he was told to use taxiway ‘Mike’ he should know how to get their.

Lima is the taxiway next to the ramps. Mike is the second one. DUH! They are also marked so if he turned down Lima he was not watching where he was going.


30 posted on 07/28/2014 2:36:29 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Cecily
"Hey, you know what? We’ll taxi out there any way we want unless you tell us to. I don’t like your attitude"

We had a Delta Connection flight try to takeoff on the wrong runway - 49 dead, one survivor. Details matter.

31 posted on 07/28/2014 2:45:01 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: SkyDancer
CNN will run this as breaking news 24/7 .....

From a rented airplane simulator no less, with the reporter describing what it must be like to blow a gasket in the cockpit.

32 posted on 07/28/2014 2:50:31 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was on a plane in ‘12 that had to pull out on final approach due to an event that looked just like that.


33 posted on 07/28/2014 2:55:16 PM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Some fat potbellied reporter with his tie askew, hat on backward (contrary to popular images, pilots do not wear their hats while flying) ...


34 posted on 07/28/2014 2:57:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: TexasCajun
"Captain Happy, meet Officer Friendly."

Officer who? What a dumb name. Get lost."

Leni

35 posted on 07/28/2014 4:21:26 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Combined US Senate & House has completely lost its voice, its compass, its patriotism & its soul!)
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To: Cecily
Delta says customer safety was never in question.

Oh really?

Comair crash in Lexington kills 49;plane used wrong runway, NTSB says

36 posted on 07/28/2014 4:51:28 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Question:
How are an ATC and pilot the same?

Answer:
If the pilot is wrong, the pilot dies.
If the ATC is wrong, the pilot dies.


37 posted on 07/28/2014 7:35:49 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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To: Cecily

Bkmk to listen later at home


38 posted on 07/29/2014 11:50:56 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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