On 18 Jan 2004 16:14:38 -0800, (Gene Seibel) wrote in
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... and flown around in controlled airspace.
What about equal coverage of the 800,000 pilots that didn't do that?

What of the military pilot who, on November 16, 2000, lead his flight
in excess of 450 knots through busy Miami Class B and Tampa C airspace
without a clearance ending in a midair collision with a Cessna 172
under positive air traffic control and its ATP rated flight instructor
pilot scattered over four acres of golf course?* The Associated Press
reported that the military found verbal reprimand to be appropriate
reprimand for the irresponsible conduct of the lead airman whose
unbelievable hubris left the Cessna pilot's daughter an orphan. Did
CBS News report the lack of criminal due process in that case of
homicide and abuse of power?

Did they inform the flying public of the danger they face daily from
the threat of our own military pilots? Did they expose the lax
punishment imposed by the military? Does CBS News practice fair and
impartial journalism?

Perhaps it's time someone put up some cash for an Anti-Pulitzer Prize
award, or at least a web site exposing these breaches of public trust


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http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...A028A &akey=1