Kentucky controller slept only 2 hours

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 | JEFFREY McMURRAY

[Paleo Conservative]

A group stands under umbrellas in a light rain at a
temporary memorial to the victims of Comair Flight 5191
at the Blue Grass Airport Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, in
Lexington, Ky. The crash killed 49 people on Sunday.
(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

If you want on or off my aerospace ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.

[Howlin]

Law firms lined up to represent family members who want to sue for negligence. One Fort Worth, Texas, firm published a full-page ad in Wednesday's Lexington Herald-Leader promising families it would seek "the greatest amount of damages allowed by law."

Scum sucking SOBs, the lot of them.

[COEXERJ145]

Airplane crashes attract lawyers like sh*t attracts flies.

[July 4th]

Thankfully, air accidents usually don't get too out of hand when it comes to compensation. Because of the issues and dollar amount involved, all of the individual cases that get filed get sucked from state court into federal court. Then they usually all get consolidated into one big federal action that ends with a fairly reasonable settlement from the airline's insurers a number of years later.

[JennysCool]

Comair offered to pay $25,000 per passenger to each family who lost a loved one.

I'm afraid Comair is going to have to add a zero or two.

[phantomworker]

"..slept only 2 hours"

Isn't that typical for our medical professionals as well?

[DarthVader]

Maybe three.

[Nathan Zachary]

This may be too simple, but why aren't runways marked "short runway xxxx feet" in big yellow or red letters on the approaches?

[Doofer]

"If they don't believe they're fit for duty, they're supposed to tell us that," Brown said. "You won't be penalized for not reporting for work."

Why do I have a hard time believing this?

[Torie]

Comair offered to pay $25,000 per passenger to each family who lost a loved one.

That dog isn't going to hunt.

[ccmay]

Airplane crashes attract lawyers like sh*t attracts flies.

The simile would be better if there were something that attracted sh!t, because that's what these heaps of dung are. Sh!t to the very marrow of their souls.

-ccm

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Airplane crashes attract lawyers like sh*t attracts flies.

Our unit experienced a significant jet crash in the 90s. Within 5 minutes of it making CNN the lawyers were swamping the phone lines.

I never thought I could hate lawyers more, but I took it to another level that day.

[Marius3188]

"The controller, a 17-year veteran whose name has not been released publicly, worked from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. He came back to work at 11:30 p.m. on the same day to begin an eight-hour overnight shift."

-Looks like the had the option of getting sleep, but chose otherwise.

[308MBR]

Oh well. I guess that makes too much sense for the FAA.

It's because of the same reason small aircraft engines haven't been allowed to advance at all in the last 60 years.

Trial lawyers have helped civillian aviation almost as much as the FAA. The day is coming soon that private aircraft will be outlawed so we must all use the cattle pens and airborne buses that pass for commercial aviation these days.

[FreedomCalls]

This may be too simple, but why aren't runways marked "short runway xxxx feet" in big yellow or red letters on the approaches?

If the pilot won't or can't read the huge numerals indicating the compass bearing, why would they pay more attention to the smaller distance warning?

[ordinaryguy]

The runway number is identified in yellow numbers, on a black background. The runway distance remaining signs, in thousands of feet, are indicated with white numbers on a black background.

[ducdriver]

Doesn't matter. It was not his job to operate the aircraft. That's what the captain is paid to do.

[ordinaryguy]

The pilot had trouble figuring out which plane he was supposed to fly. He had to be told he was prepping the wrong plane.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Airplane crashes attract lawyers like sh*t attracts flies.

Sh*t attracts more lawyers than flies if someone slips in it and breaks a hip.

People are foolish to join large class actions suits, the only one who ends up with the money is the lawyers, all the plaintiffs split what's left after "expenses" like $10,000.00 20 word letters that take their secretaries 5 min's to write, informing the company's lawyers that they will be 10 min's. late for a settlement meeting. You're better off independent