Pilot, possibly intoxicated, flies around Philly for 3 hours

Ugh!
-david

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/01/16/erratic.plane/index.html

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David Gunter ) wrote:

Ugh!
-david

I like this quote from the CNN article:

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Controllers at Philadelphia International Airport made radio contact with
the pilot and offered to clear him to land, but 'instead of landing, he
flew elsewhere,' Peters said.

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The couple of times I overheard someone bust class B airspace, the
controllers weren't in such a generous mood.

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I just saw the report on CNN Headline News. I'll say one thing for their
report - it wasn't sensationalized. They just reported the facts and then
went into their next story.

Nice job, CNN.

Harry
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David Gunter ) wrote:

Ugh!
-david

I like this quote from the CNN article:

------------- start quote ------------------------------

Controllers at Philadelphia International Airport made radio contact with
the pilot and offered to clear him to land, but 'instead of landing, he
flew elsewhere,' Peters said.

------------- end quote --------------------------------


The couple of times I overheard someone bust class B airspace, the
controllers weren't in such a generous mood.

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Nice job, CNN.

Hasn't hit Fox yet--they are still riveted to Michael Jackson :-)
www.Rosspilot.com

Nice job, CNN.

Hasn't hit Fox yet--they are still riveted to Michael Jackson :-)


Just hit Fox--they performed true-to-form.

"he even flew next to a nuclear power plant"




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ospam (Rosspilot) wrote:
Nice job, CNN.

Hasn't hit Fox yet--they are still riveted to Michael Jackson :-)


Just hit Fox--they performed true-to-form.

"he even flew next to a nuclear power plant"


Did he fly next to a nuclear power plant? There's nothing wrong with
reporting the facts even though we may not like to admit that the facts
are the facts.

It sounds like this guy was as dumb as they come, yet the authorities
exercised restraint and didn't blow him out of the sky.

CBS apparently thought he should have been shot down, and then they'd be
running a story about how the government should have exercised restraint
because the guy wasn't a real threat.

As for GA airport security, I must admit that I am disappointed, at
least in some of the airports in my area. Many larger GA fields here
don't even have perimeter fencing, and many of those that do have
operable gates that aren't operating. Some of those airports who have
tried operating the gates have ended up with dead gate motors because
the morons who are using their hangars as personal storage for
everything but an airplane are staking the gates open so that they can
more easily move in and out. The bottom line is that if the small
fields don't get a grip on REASONABLE security, one of these days
something bad is going to hb_men and there is going to be UNREASONABLE
over-reaction.


JKG

"Peter R." wrote:

Controllers at Philadelphia International Airport made radio contact with
the pilot and offered to clear him to land, but 'instead of landing, he
flew elsewhere,' Peters said.

------------- end quote --------------------------------

The couple of times I overheard someone bust class B airspace, the
controllers weren't in such a generous mood.

CNN just did a little creative translation. It probably went more like "To the
idiot in the spam can over PHL, get your but down here immediately! And call the
tower."

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
CNN just did a little creative translation. It probably went more like "To the
idiot in the spam can over PHL, get your but down here immediately! And call the
tower."


"but" ??? Isn't that a conjuction?

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
"Peter R." wrote:

Controllers at Philadelphia International Airport made radio contact with
the pilot and offered to clear him to land, but 'instead of landing, he
flew elsewhere,' Peters said.

------------- end quote --------------------------------

The couple of times I overheard someone bust class B airspace, the
controllers weren't in such a generous mood.

CNN just did a little creative translation. It probably went more like "To the
idiot in the spam can over PHL, get your but down here immediately! And call the
tower."

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Where the hell is gravity when sociaty needs it most to weed out the
Darwin award winners ??

Ben Haas N801BH