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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

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is looking into a tense exchange between a pilot and an air-traffic controller.

According to WSB-TV – Atlanta, the exchange happened Friday when a controller told a pilot his plane was approaching the wrong taxiway.

“Hey, you know what? We’ll taxi out there any way we want unless you tell us to. I don’t like your attitude,” the pilot said.

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Bad day at the office.
1 posted on 07/28/2014 1:33:15 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Ground controls all taxi ways and off-duty runways. If the pilot does not obey their instructions, it is a violation of FAA rules and regulations.


2 posted on 07/28/2014 1:35:02 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Cecily

Captain Happy !


3 posted on 07/28/2014 1:36:00 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Cecily
Well...it is clear that the ATC guy shouldn't have "axed" the pilot anything.

Perhaps if he "asked" him it might have gone better.

4 posted on 07/28/2014 1:38:46 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I am a living legacy to the leader of the band.)
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To: Cecily

A-hole attitudes from TSA weirdo’s must be affecting pilots and ATC’s.


5 posted on 07/28/2014 1:39:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: rjsimmon

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


6 posted on 07/28/2014 1:40:07 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Cecily

Shouldn’t the pilot do what the controller says unless he knows something is wrong?

I recall landing at Eglin and the plane just rolling and rolling and rolling until it got to the terminal. I wondered if that single plane was using the entire runway system while it was on the ground.


7 posted on 07/28/2014 1:40:38 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Cecily

BFD. How is this an “extremely tense exchange” as ABC News billed it? Nobody even dropped an F-bomb.


8 posted on 07/28/2014 1:41:07 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: TexasCajun

He might have been a dwarf pilot, but he’s certainly not Happy!


9 posted on 07/28/2014 1:41:15 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: rjsimmon

All the pilot needs to do is request “progressive taxi instruction”. Then be quiet.


10 posted on 07/28/2014 1:41:20 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Cecily

Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9’er, you are cleared for take-off.

Captain Oveur: Roger!

Roger Murdock: Huh?

Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9’er.

Captain Oveur: Roger!

Roger Murdock: Huh?

Victor Basta: Request vector, over.

Captain Oveur: What?

Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9’er cleared for vector 324.

Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.

Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?

Tower voice: Tower’s radio clearance, over!

Captain Oveur: That’s Clarence Oveur. Over.

Tower voice: Over.

Captain Oveur: Roger.

Roger Murdock: Huh?

Tower voice: Roger, over!

Roger Murdock: What?

Captain Oveur: Huh?

Victor Basta: Who?


11 posted on 07/28/2014 1:42:23 PM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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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.”

12 posted on 07/28/2014 1:42:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I’m thinking the pilot will be remanded to sensitivity training.


13 posted on 07/28/2014 1:43:15 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Cecily

It’s about time the Delta Pilot Union got the pilots’ attitude in line with the rest of the Delta family. He finally sounds like a Delta gate agent.

I was working on a marketing plan to submit to Delta, but for some reason they weren’t too hip on my new campaign, “Delta Hates You.”


14 posted on 07/28/2014 1:43:22 PM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: MrB

You have to listen to the audio, some other pilot chimes in with “Calm Down Captain Happy!”.


15 posted on 07/28/2014 1:43:38 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Cecily

bfl


16 posted on 07/28/2014 1:43:43 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: rjsimmon

The problem is that we are hearing one small snippet of time, and obviously edited. Hard to tell what might have taken place leading up to this and what was edited out. There are also plenty of youtube videos that make the ATC look like an idiot.


17 posted on 07/28/2014 1:43:48 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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18 posted on 07/28/2014 1:45:05 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: Dexter Morgan
...but for some reason they weren’t too hip on my new campaign, “Delta Hates You.”

Your problem is American Airlines already has that campaign.

19 posted on 07/28/2014 1:47:42 PM PDT by Nachoman (libertyarmstx.com is now open!)
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To: Obadiah

LOL!

Who’s on First?


20 posted on 07/28/2014 1:47:59 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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