Vaxxed and boosted. Safe and effective.
I want to give an award to the author. First article in years that told you what happened in the first two paragraphs!
That is why, at least years ago, all of the airlines had a cooperative arrangement to allow any pilot to ride free, to encourage them to be on planes as passengers, in case something of the sort occurred. I don’t know what the policy is now, but of course it makes sense for somebody with the requisite skill set to replace the pilot who fell ill. This honestly should not have been news, it should only have been news if it was found that the guy didn’t go into the cockpit.
He must have eaten the fish.
Yes, the first thoughts I think when the copilot comes on the PA and asks “Is there a pilot aboard” are all about the pilot. Naturally.
My second thought is whether I packed clean underwear.
” Two pilots still make sense in the cockpit, though eventually that will change. “
Eventually meaning when?
I guess he got over Macho Grande...
though details aren’t available on whether they were type-rated for the 737,
Yeah, let’s nitpick about that.
I wonder how they were able to find a pilot among the passengers without causing a panic.
The Experimental mRNA Gene Therapy is not safe or effective.
Crap.
I live directly under a landing flight path of an international airport.
The planes go over at less than 500 feet.
I think I better move.
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Stryker flew single-engine fighters in the war. This plane has two engines. It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.
“... The 18 year old ex-China Eastern 737-700...”
18 year old pilot!? /s
I know it was the PLANE! Why does it matter, in an article about a pilot becoming incapacitated, how old the plane was?
AND what does China have to do with it? Did EVERYONE come down with COVID?
It's an entirely different kind of flying.....altogether.
” Two pilots still make sense in the cockpit, though eventually that will change. Still, the single remaining Southwest Airlines pilot would have been capable of returning the aircraft to the ground. Having another airline pilot available to assist, though details aren’t available on whether they were type-rated for the 737, was certainly helpful and an additional stroke of luck.”
First of all, this A-hole doesn’t know the first thing about commercial aviation.
1. It takes TWO pilots to safely fly a commercial jet. The co-pilot is not there just in case the pilot gets sick (or since the jabs, DIES)
They are BOTH flying the airplane. (especially during take offs and landings. Also in bad weather.)
The pilots are described as “pilot flying” and “pilot monitoring” irrespective of which one is the “pilot” or “co-pilot.
They EACH have specific jobs BOTH necessary to safely fly the airplane.
Todays commercial jets are so complicated that it takes TWO to tango (fly the plane).
For the same reason that you wouldn’t want the driver of a car you are in speeding down the interstate talking on the phone, looking at a map, going through a written list of what you are going to do when you get there. And they are ON THE GROUND!
The pilot and co-pilot split/share the same duties. In an emergency the “pilot” may take over “my airplane” but may also decide that in the particular situation the co-pilot already flying is the best to continue. It is a “command decision” nothing more. BOTH pilots are qualified to handle all situations.
Any situation that comes up has a “check list”. You don’t want the “pilot flying” doing that. You don’t want the “pilot flying” handling communications which many times are crucial and attention/time consuming. You want the “pilot monitoring doing that.
In ANY emergency situation, two heads are better than one.
“though details aren’t available on whether they were type-rated for the 737”
He was a pilot from another airline. An “airline pilot” not a crop duster.
He didn’t necessarily “take over” as a “co-pilot”, he just helped with radio communications.
It is a TWO person job. One and a half is better than one.
Whether “type rated” on a 737 or not doesn’t mean he wasn’t familiar with the 737. You can only be rated to fly ONE type at a time. He might not be type rated currently for a 737, but might have flown them for the past 10 years. In any case, he knew how to use the radio.
“Two pilots still make sense in the cockpit, though eventually that will change.”
I don’t and won’t fly now but sure won’t under those terms.
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🚨BREAKING: A southwest pilot departing from Las Vegas become incapacitated mid flight. The pilot was removed from the flight deck mid flight and replaced with a non-southwest pilot who was on the plane.
This comes on the heels of the FAA decreasing the cardiac physical requirements for pilots, because so many failed.
4:15 PM · Mar 22, 2023
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