Dan Camper
April 2nd 09, 02:07 PM
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:38:43 GMT, vaughn wrote:
> "Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer" > wrote in
> message eriade.it...
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52N63B20090325
>>
>> PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead
>> of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane,
>
> I have a friend, a retired airline pilot, who spent a year flying in the
> middle east after he "aged out" in the USA. His main comment on returning
> was that the locals had a real cultural problem with piloting because too
> often their response to an in-flight crisis was fatalism. Some would
> actually mumble something like "insah Allah", fold their arms, and watch
> events, rather than continuing to fly the plane and do whatever it takes to
> innovate their way out of an emergency situation. For that reason, (this
> was about 15 years ago) he claimed that Arab airlines generally preferred
> western pilots.
Duh.
Good news, more dead 'rabs the better.
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> "Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer" > wrote in
> message eriade.it...
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52N63B20090325
>>
>> PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead
>> of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane,
>
> I have a friend, a retired airline pilot, who spent a year flying in the
> middle east after he "aged out" in the USA. His main comment on returning
> was that the locals had a real cultural problem with piloting because too
> often their response to an in-flight crisis was fatalism. Some would
> actually mumble something like "insah Allah", fold their arms, and watch
> events, rather than continuing to fly the plane and do whatever it takes to
> innovate their way out of an emergency situation. For that reason, (this
> was about 15 years ago) he claimed that Arab airlines generally preferred
> western pilots.
Duh.
Good news, more dead 'rabs the better.
--
http://tr.im/1f9p