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Baroque Bloke |
“A Jet2 flight bound for Madeira has made an emergency landing at Porto after the pilot fainted and another, who happened to be on board the plane on holiday, entered the cabin for landing. The Boeing 757 was on its way from Manchester to Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, when the pilot fell ill. The 40-year-old pilot is understood to have been taken to hospital on arrival…” https://mol.im/a/7395387 Serious about crackers | ||
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Optimistic Cynic |
Good thing Ted Stryker didn't have the fish! | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
 What? You knew it was coming... Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Big Stack |
I'm assuming the EU requires two pilots to operate a commercial jetliner. Why couldn't the copilot land the plane. Or did he, and the "guest" pilot essentially became the copilot? | |||
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Yep, and all this in just 20 minutes. Truly amazing. Incidentally, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal is one of the most gorgeous place I’ve ever seen. Mike I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
Likely the copilot could’ve landed the plane by himself. But much better to have two pilots in the cockpit, especially for a landing. And certainly the copilot knew of the pilot onboard. Serious about crackers | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
Mind-bogglingly bad reporting. Yes, the plane can be landed by one pilot. There are tons of reasons why two pilots are better than one, but when the plane is behaving well, one pilot can do the job. Hero pilot? Horse shit. Of course if the Captain got sick, there are some airlines that hire very low time pilots to sit in the right seat, which can make it exciting. Someone like that can get overwhelmed very quickly. Pilots fly planes, that's what we do. Stepping in to help land a plane isn't heroism, that's what I call a "short notice crew activation."  ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
thats why you never eat the fish on a flight.... | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Tabloid sensationalism. Q | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Better to have the lasagna. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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When my wife & I were dating/engaged, nearly every time we got on a plane (737-size), she'd ask me "Could you fly this?" At my 26 hours in a single engine prop, I'd usually respond with something along the lines of "Probably, though it probably wouldn't be fun for those onboard", followed by "That I can recall, it's never happened in American commercial aviation, that a passenger has taken over for an incapacitated pilot" The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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In Vino Veritas |
The Maderia airport is one of the most difficult airports to land at if I recall. Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun!!! | |||
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Crew Scheduling probably met them at the plane and reassigned the vacationing pilot...  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Meanwhile, in Santa Barbara this happened
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