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Forum Archive 2023 => Laugh? I nearly started. => dMw's Community Centre => Community Archive => Look What I Found on the Internet => Topic started by: delanvital on March 01, 2008, 01:48:19 PM

Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: delanvital on March 01, 2008, 01:48:19 PM
From the Danish newspaper politiken.dk,

(http://politiken.dk/archive/00238/Flyby_Firing_238634i.jpg)

The pilot got fired, apparently he was highly experienced... I wonder if he had passengers on the plane. This was in Washington.
Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: Blunt on March 01, 2008, 02:02:03 PM
He did have passengers....they were senior executives of Cathay Pacific.

see here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7263007.stm)
Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: delanvital on March 01, 2008, 02:10:19 PM
From the article they said it was on Youtube... found this very poor video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1ZrNnveIs

I wonder if one of the VIPs went "I dare you to do blah blah.... I will pay you blah blah..."
Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: Liberator on March 01, 2008, 02:30:24 PM
The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/777_flypast/), says he had clearance from the tower but not his bosses.

Co-pilot is suspended for 6 months.
Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: Luminance on March 01, 2008, 02:48:03 PM
that sort of things only works twice, and they both happend in top gun allready ;)
unlucky pilot, skillz he had!
Title: This pilot got fired for this low level fly-by
Post by: T-Bag on March 01, 2008, 03:39:57 PM
Yeah, I don't think one of the passengers was very happy about the fly-over and took it out on the pilot. Since the passengers were his bosses they can hit back hard.
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