[jim35]

"...You, sir or madam, are a KOOK..."

You mean, a member of "Keep Our Own Kids Safe?" No, that's the anti-soccer group hailed by El Rushbo. Oh, I know. A person of the Christian faith. Righto. I'm definitely one of those kooks. My whole object is to turn atheists away from religion. So far, so good. Oh, I also like to offend people within earshot who may overhear me when I mention anything from the Bible. And, BTW, I'm a "sir," but there's no need to be formal.

[proud American in Canada]

"Just given the history of what's happened on planes in this country, anything can happen at this point. So we weren't sure if something was going to happen at takeoff, if he was going to wait until JFK to do something... But there was definitely [an] implication there that we felt that something was going to happen."

This is why what the pilot did was wrong. He frightened the passengers--because of the context of when he said this, not the content.

The passengers' had to wonder why the man who would say something like this, and in the context of the reality that he held their lives in his hands because he's at the controls of an aircraft, I'm sure the experience was really frightening.

If he said it once the plane had landed and everyone was casually walking to get their luggage, or in the coffee shop before they boarded, it would be completely different.