Posted on 01/15/2024 10:02:36 AM PST by NetAddicted
OMG.......that disease spreads easily.
(and now United has turned their focus to incorporating drag into their business and sponsoring drag shows.)
Great. Makes me not want to fly on United. With their priorities like that, one wonders if they pay proper attention to aviation safety protocols.
Yikes 😳😳😳
Guess we’ll have to wait for confirmation
Asking for deletion
Hiring on merit WILL include people of all sexual kinks... that’s a given. But when people are hired BECAUSE of sexual kink the odds of getting a lot more ‘fails’ is obvious.
It would be the same as if some group wanted people with ‘red hair’ to be half the pilots. There are qualified red heads - just NOT enough to be half of any profession.
CornPop
I thought airplanes always have some drag.
“In Hispanic cultures the strict respect for ‘elites’ was causing the second in command to NOT tell the first officer of a problem if the comment had already been rejected once. The solution was to enforce an ‘English only’ rule in the cockpit.”
You mean like the KLM-Pan Am crash at Tenerife, where the KLM First Officer questioned the Captain’s decision to take off and the Dutch Captain responded by saying “We’re going!’
EXACTLY
AND the pilot was literally the KLM poster boy for safety. I kid you not.
Rolled WITHOUT takeoff clearance on a fog-bound runway knowing that Pan Am was back-taxiing moments before (he assumed they were clear but they said they’d report clear - when it occurred).
KLM received departure clearance but not take off clearance.
The FO got him to stop once.
Second time he wasn’t gonna listen to the FO....
“Un-tied”
Great comment!
Unfortunately
The stupidity rolling through the world these days is unbelievable
And has been; especially since the Lying Kenyan showed up
F: You share a fascinating story about culture and airline safety.
G: Korean Air had more plane crashes than almost any other airline in the world for a period at the end of the 1990s. When we think of airline crashes, we think, Oh, they must have had old planes. They must have had badly trained pilots. No. What they were struggling with was a cultural legacy, that Korean culture is hierarchical. You are obliged to be deferential toward your elders and superiors in a way that would be unimaginable in the U.S.
But Boeing and Airbus design modern, complex airplanes to be flown by two equals. That works beautifully in low-power-distance cultures [like the U.S., where hierarchies aren’t as relevant]. But in cultures that have high power distance, it’s very difficult.
We asked Malcolm Gladwell for his thoughts on the use of his essay in the particular context of the Asiana crash. “I can understand why my Outliers chapter has been of interest, given how central cockpit communication issues are in plane crashes,” Gladwell told The Atlantic Wire in an email, adding, “My sense is that we should wait for the full report on the crash before drawing any conclusions about its cause.” As for the applicability of his work to the recent Asiana crash, Gladwell noted that his essay was specific to the problems (and solutions) of one airline — Korean Air, “which I think did an extraordinary job of addressing the cultural issues involved in pilot communication. This was a crash involving a completely different airline,” he said.
On Wednesday, CNN re-aired part of a 2009 interview with Gladwell about his essay, as part of their “just raising questions” approach to using the essay to explain the Asiana crash. The argument has been popular among many outlets since the slow trickle of details from the NTSB on their investigation began. Among the evidence cited? The flight attendent who said that she asked the pilot about starting an evacuation after the crash, but was told to wait. The quiet of the cockpit on flight recorders, indicating little communication. The unequal standing between the man flying the plane — a trainee — and his more experienced mentor in the seat next to him.
I googled it - it wasn’t ‘Hispanic’ it was Korean. My memory is still telling me it also applied to Hisanic pilots - but I could be wrong...
There he is.
Pan Am pilots had stepped it off. They were 20 feet short of getting past him because he chose to top off his tanks.
Otherwise they would have been gone saving the lives of 577(?) people.
KLM was in a hurry because they were going to have to put people up in hotels if it was much longer. Should have gotten gas later.
A radio communication got squashed too. IIRC KLM never heard it.
STILL KLM had NO departure 🛫 clearance from what I’ve seen.
CRM
Well, he landed about 1,500 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
☹️😔😞😦
Never name your boat “Titan.....”
Darn autocorrect
Is there even one regular white male worth considering/
One not named DeSantis or Christi?
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