[jdm]

Why won't they release his name?

[SlapHappyPappy]

Probably because they are treating this as a medical issue, and are protecting his privacy.

[the invisib1e hand]

they'll be no talking to God on THIS plane!

[cmsgop]

Did the name “Allah” come into play at all ???

[ECM]

Perhaps he is of swarthie descent.

[camerakid400]

I’m sure his name Joe Smith. Nothing to see here......

[Red_Devil 232]

Was there not another one of these guys that drove an airliner straight into the Atlantic ... while he was talking to his god?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The UK has a different approach to things than we do when it comes to certain offenses.

For instance, in the US, we can easily learn the name of a man charged with rape but not the victim's name.
In the UK, you will learn the name of neither.

In this case, the principle may be the same.

Although, I could be wrong and the perp could be a stinking Muslim slime bag who wanted to meet with allah.

[Westbrook]

I could be wrong, but I have a hunch that he is a pie-eyed proselyte of the Pirate Polygamist Pedophile “Prophet”.

[IonImplantGuru]

Ping to Aeronaut's ping list!
Our errant co-pilot failed to remember the below poem, by a fellow Canuck:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[Rummyfan]

And when he said God did he use the word allah? Just wondering.....

[IonImplantGuru]

Ping to Aeronaut's ping list!
Our errant co-pilot failed to remember the below poem, by a fellow Canuck:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[Ezekiel]

He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God."

Poor guy. He had to complain about the food to someone.

(Was it really halal?)

[Turbopilot]

The quote about “wanting to talk to God” was from a passenger on the flight who heard the pilot’s rant after he was removed from the flight deck. I doubt he would censor “Allah” and replace it with “God”.

[RonF]

I wouldn’t mind my pilot wanting to talk to God.

Now, if he wanted to visit him while I’m still on the plane ....

[Terriergal]

‘who wanted to talk to God’

NO one ever told him he could do that anytime?

[null and void]

Why won't they release his name?

Because the small g god he wanted to talk to is called allah?

[Greysard]

Since we are talking about a pilot who by requirements of his job has to pass physical examinations quite frequently, I do not quite believe that he just got ill gradually and on his own. When a healthy man suddenly gets ill like that it is wise to check his blood on presence of psychotropic drugs. It’s not too difficult for a cafeteria worker to give a pilot a cup of coffee with a tiny pill inside. In right circumstances this can crash the airplane.

[cgk]

ping.

[Deb]

Some time last year the British media decided (under pressure) not to mention the "ethnic origins" of people in the news. Too prejudicial.

Note: The Brits call Middle Easterners, "Asian". Something to remember.