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Blind, disabled 'should be able to fly'
Daily Telegraph ^
| September 27, 2002
| MATTHEW DENHOLM
Posted on 09/28/2002 9:08:35 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: Cacique; firebrand; rmlew; Dutchy; StarFan; nutmeg; Coleus; RaceBannon; madfly; backhoe
I'm not flying to England any time soon!
To: Squawk 8888
No offense intended but I had to check this source. I thought that this must be a satire piece.
My apologies, it's true and I'm speechless.
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:12:24 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Squawk 8888
This is a joke right?
Please tell me it's a joke..
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:12:31 PM PDT
by
Texas Mom
To: Squawk 8888
How about all those involved in that decision be the first to fly on a plane with a blind pilot.
To: JeanS
I thought that this must be a satire piece. Me too.. Is everyone losing their freaking minds?
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:14:33 PM PDT
by
Texas Mom
To: Texas Mom
Me too.. Is everyone losing their freaking minds? I think so. This is incredible.
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:15:42 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: JeanS
I thought so too but I'm not terribly surprised. A few years back a one-eyed pilot in the US sued an airline for discrimination when they refused to hire him and the case dragged on for quite a while.
To: reformed_dem
Oh yeah, and have blind air traffic controllers oversee their flight.
To: Texas Mom
The CASA is the Aussie version of the FAA.
As a pilot, I too am speechless.
Stop the world now, I wanna get off...
To: Squawk 8888
The finding, by the Federal Attorney General's Department Did this finding come right after the Department dropped its requirement that new employees have brains?
To: Squawk 8888
Please tell me they're joking.
Please.
This article brings up all SORTS of scenarios, all of them unpleasant.
Flight attendants aren't glorified waitresses. They're there for safety. I want them to be able to get to the emergency exit quickly.
Severa; close friends are ATC, both Center and local. They MUST be tough mentally. I couldn't do it, and I'm not marshmallow.
Hell, if they do this, the only way I'll go to the UK is by boat.
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:20:38 PM PDT
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bootless
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
God help us all if this oozes across the Pond to the States. It's bad enough when some of the local towers are home to ... uh ... developmentals, those coming back from the beach, or those from the Train to Succeed programs.
Why do I have this vision of Rainman working Boston Center...?
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:23:03 PM PDT
by
bootless
To: Criminal Number 18F; snopercod
Check this one out...
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:24:20 PM PDT
by
bootless
To: Squawk 8888
Blind, disabled 'should be able to fly' Sure, if you get them going fast enough...
To: Squawk 8888
the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ought to be the first on board when one of these disabilitites gets their license.
To: Squawk 8888
Note to Self: Scratch England off list of places it would be nice to goto.
This is beyond insane.
Tommorrows Headline: Convicted Murderer wins right to carry gun in jail.
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:34:58 PM PDT
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tonyinv
To: Squawk 8888
When I read stories like this I feel as if life is becoming one long, tedious, maddening episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:36:36 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: Squawk 8888
...and the deaf should be hired as translators for the U.N., as if they haven't been already...
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posted on
09/28/2002 9:39:04 PM PDT
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Vidalia
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