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United Pilot Spilled His Coffee While Taxiing In Chicago—And That $5 Drink Grounded A $130 Million Jet
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| September 3, 2025
| Gary Leff
Posted on 09/05/2025 6:22:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Maybe they should make an airline with pilots who don't drink coffee. Just ones with airline pilots in their native state - drunk.
To: SkyDancer
Do you drink coffee when you pilot?
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:26:15 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: nickcarraway
Airbus doesn’t have cup holders in the cockpit?
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:27:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:27:36 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
To: nickcarraway
Don’t they have cup holders?
To: BenLurkin
To: nickcarraway
Maybe they should just give it to the pilots in an IV.
To: BenLurkin; SkyDancer; nickcarraway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)
The film’s storyline concerns the crash of a commercial airliner that killed all aboard except for one of the crew, a stewardess. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators blame pilot error, but the airline’s Director of Flight Operations, himself a pilot, refuses to accept that conclusion and demands that the inquiry probe deeper into all the circumstances that contributed to the disaster.
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SPOILER ALERT
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To maintain flight, McBane orders the first engine restarted. Then he notices that the coffee cup on the console spilled during the turbulence of the first engine shut-down. He opens the console’s access panel and finds that coffee seeped in, short-circuiting the wiring and causing both the radio failure and a false fire warning. In reality both the original and test flights still had a fully functioning second engine, enough to prevent the crash.
To: BenLurkin
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!
$5 for a cup of coffee ☕??!!
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:36:17 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: nickcarraway
Oh come on. Glenn Ford and “Fate is the Hunter” in 1964.
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:36:42 PM PDT
by
willk
(Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
To: nickcarraway
Fate Is The Hunter. Great film with Glenn Ford, Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor. This very scenario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:39:19 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
To: Larry Lucido
Aw! You beat me to the punch! :)
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:39:59 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
To: SaveFerris
$5 for a cup of coffee ☕??!! Have you ever been to an airport?
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:40:04 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
(God bless Donald Trump)
To: Larry Lucido
Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor, Jane Russell, Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox....
They don’t make them like that anymore.
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:40:07 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Larry Lucido
Posted like a true aviation buff!
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:41:48 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:42:06 PM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: nickcarraway
Sounds like he has a drinking problem....
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posted on
09/05/2025 6:46:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
I spilled coffee on my keyboard aand n0w i+ dooooesnnn/////
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