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American Airlines Plane Diverted Into Syracuse
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The captain died at the controls, the co-pilot took over and safely landed the plane, diverting it into Syracuse.
Could someone tell me what the significance of this story is? Okay, it's tragic for his family and colleagues but, Duh, that's why they have trained co-pilots aboard - and no one was injured or anything like that.
As international news, I opine that it is totally irrelevant.
Is the BBC desperate for news today and using this so-called story as padding?
Could someone tell me what the significance of this story is? Okay, it's tragic for his family and colleagues but, Duh, that's why they have trained co-pilots aboard - and no one was injured or anything like that.
As international news, I opine that it is totally irrelevant.
Is the BBC desperate for news today and using this so-called story as padding?
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Not sure where you are getting your BBC News. On the BBC website, it is in World News and in the US & Canada section, which is about right.
If you are complaining about TV coverage, then often the availability of good pictures and coverage, from American networks, will promote a story higher than other important news where no pictures are available.
If you are complaining about TV coverage, then often the availability of good pictures and coverage, from American networks, will promote a story higher than other important news where no pictures are available.
I've been on board three times for medical diversions, AOG, no issue there.
The last one was appallingly handled - Continental to London and the flight ok until an hour east of Labrador, a Brit patient who had been stapled up at the MD Anderson in Houston and sent home as there was nothing they could do. Not decrying that there was an incident aboard what did the b's do but turn the plane around to fly 2.5 hours back to Newark - and home base avoiding charges no doubt. If it was a genuine emergency, they could have come down into Gander or Halifax - or gone on a bit to Reykjavik. 2.5 hours added on to the flight would have had us close to Shannon and not that far from London either where at least he would have been home.
We lost 7 hours in total and the consequential knock-on ré jetlag. Wasn't impressed with Conti that night.
The last one was appallingly handled - Continental to London and the flight ok until an hour east of Labrador, a Brit patient who had been stapled up at the MD Anderson in Houston and sent home as there was nothing they could do. Not decrying that there was an incident aboard what did the b's do but turn the plane around to fly 2.5 hours back to Newark - and home base avoiding charges no doubt. If it was a genuine emergency, they could have come down into Gander or Halifax - or gone on a bit to Reykjavik. 2.5 hours added on to the flight would have had us close to Shannon and not that far from London either where at least he would have been home.
We lost 7 hours in total and the consequential knock-on ré jetlag. Wasn't impressed with Conti that night.
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It surprised me to read that pilots are allowed to fly after having by pass operations.
It surprised me to read that pilots are allowed to fly after having by pass operations.
I must say i concur with the comments of DTC.......what is the big deal?
Now, it would have been a bigger story had the Co-pilot not been able to fly an aircraft but called over the t annoy
"Pilot dead, does anybody know how to fly a plane?"...and a passenger brings it home.
Just part of the job, I would say.
Now, it would have been a bigger story had the Co-pilot not been able to fly an aircraft but called over the t annoy
"Pilot dead, does anybody know how to fly a plane?"...and a passenger brings it home.
Just part of the job, I would say.
Yes, I think it was that too, douglas and aog, padding with a 'feel-good' story, kicking something else more miserable or serious off, for example the Redcar situation, the EU court ruling on UK welfare rules, the Nobel prize for physics for solving the puzzle of neutrino particles or Hilary vowing to take on the gun lobby - if they wanted a US story.
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I suppose it is a news item (i.e. a report on something that has already happened).
The BBC R4 news at 8am today, not unusually, contained mostly items about things that had yet to happen. There was Mrs May’s speech, almost word for word a good few hours before she delivered it; there was something Boris Johnson was going to say later today; there was the expected ruling from the ECJ on prisoners’ voting rights; there was news that the Ched Evans rape case would be going to appeal; there was David Cameron telling us that parents of truants would be fined; and so it went on.
The 8am “news” is simply the reading of the latest government propaganda for the day and a few reports of other things due to happen. Rarely does it contain any reports of events having taken place the previous night.
The BBC R4 news at 8am today, not unusually, contained mostly items about things that had yet to happen. There was Mrs May’s speech, almost word for word a good few hours before she delivered it; there was something Boris Johnson was going to say later today; there was the expected ruling from the ECJ on prisoners’ voting rights; there was news that the Ched Evans rape case would be going to appeal; there was David Cameron telling us that parents of truants would be fined; and so it went on.
The 8am “news” is simply the reading of the latest government propaganda for the day and a few reports of other things due to happen. Rarely does it contain any reports of events having taken place the previous night.
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