Posted on 01/10/2017 2:53:14 PM PST by lafroste
Former New York Sen. Al D'Amato was removed from a delayed New York-bound JetBlue flight on Monday after trying to rally passengers against the flight crew. JetBlue flight 1002 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was originally supposed to depart at 1:42 p.m. ET, but six delays pushed the departure time to just after 8:00 p.m.
Once the plane boarded, the pilots informed passengers that 10 of them needed to move from the front to the back of the plane due to weight distribution.
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Well I do remember the grandstanding with the briefcase in which the torn note was supposedly found, shaking it upside-down &c. It was so reminiscent of Swift's description of a legal dispute in Gulliver's Travels. I guess Senator Al just didn't have time to get a handwriting analyst to testify.
Why was there no way to investigate and prosecute the murder of a high White House staffer? I see this as a HUGE problem. But I guess you're okay with it.
ML/NJ
I remember the late Bob Grant used to say that once the NY Times praised D’Amato over something, he changed.
“I read the article, and I agree with Senator D’Amato. Whenever I’m on a flight where they request people to move, I’m usually the first to volunteer. And he’s right. The Captain should grow some balls instead of just sitting in the cockpit waiting for the flight attendants to sort it out”
I disagree 100%. Weight and balance is about the safety of the flight. Predicted weights and balance can change depended on cargo loaded. Once everything is on board the real weight and balances are determined. A couple of times I have been asked to move due to weight and balance. I understood completely and followed instructions from the cabin staff. I had no need of one of the pilots to tell me to move. The pilots and cabin staff are on the side of safety.
Damato was an idiot.
Click the link below to see what happens when weight and balance goes wrong. Probably due to cargo breaking lose that was insecurely fastened. Perhaps Damato would have like to ended up like that 747.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIjO0sKBDDw
When I was a flight instructor one of my students was a wealthy lawyer. His arrogance had no place in the air as a pilot. I later refused to instruct him. He was an accident waiting to happen. He ate some electrical lines on approach one day after he obtained his pilots licence and not with my sign off. He died and fortunately took no one with him.
I have had physicians that were also students. They were invariable very good or very bad. Those that had the “God Syndrome” were bad.
I have had engineer students, without exception they were very good.
I also had one student that was a rare bird. He was absolutely magic with stick and rudder. I could demonstrate a maneuver once and he could do it almost flawlessly. He was gifted. He was a better pilot than I. He had it. Ground school with him was most painful. It actually hurt like hell, he was not that damn bright but he was good in the air.
Some years later I read about him in our University News of Northeast Louisiana University. He was flying fighters for the United States Air Force. I chuckled and imagined his Air Force instructors saying the same thing I and other instructors said. I suspect it went like this, “That dumb Bast—d really does know how to fly.”
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