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Texting pilot forgets to lower gear
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April 20, 2012
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Now we know why everyone has to turn off their cell phones during landings and take offs. If you're talking on your phone, the pilot can't concentrate.
Posted by: Clankie | April 20, 2012 at 08:20 AM
"Please turn off ALL electronic devices during flight so that the Captain can get a better signal in order to sext his girlfriend. Yeah, THAT'S why it's called a cock pit."
Posted by: Punkin | April 20, 2012 at 08:21 AM
WTF - I C sparks!!1!
OMG - We R skidding :(
U no where I can get nu job??
LOL ;)
Posted by: Dan S. | April 20, 2012 at 08:56 AM
Sounds rather typical ... folks figger the rules aren't meant for them ... merely for the less smart ones ...
Yeah ... right ... (Mebbe now that he's unemployed, he will be able to use all those banked minutes he saved up by not using the phone @ werk?)
Posted by: O the Umanity | April 20, 2012 at 09:04 AM
He'll be able to spend more time playing "Words with Friends" with Alec Baldwin. "What?!? It's a town in Austria, really!"
Posted by: DrPat | April 20, 2012 at 09:26 AM
That's bad.
The first time you do that, you get the name "Sparky".
The second time, it's changed to "Spot".
Posted by: Steve | April 20, 2012 at 09:49 AM
Steve ... nah, he's still known as "Lucky" ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | April 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Currently Unemployed Texting pilot forgets to lower gear
Posted by: MikeyVA | April 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM
A flight instructor once told me it would be easy a pilot to know if he had landed with the gear up...it would require much more power to taxi.
Posted by: Emmett Flatus | April 20, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Neither [pilot and co-pilot] spoke to each other about their intentions.
Speaking to each other: only cavemen do that.
This message brought to you by [fill in the name of your CellPhone Carrier], who remind you "Text till you drop" (TTYD) is not just a motto, it's how we live
(and die).
Posted by: funny man | April 20, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Is there such a thing as a Florida pilot's license?
Posted by: Omniskeptic | April 20, 2012 at 02:18 PM
Wow. That is one lucky planeful of people. That kind of series of mistakes is usually what a crash investigator has to figure out after the fact.
Posted by: Mad Librarian | April 20, 2012 at 03:07 PM
Speakin' of Florida licenses ... here's a local item that's vaguely similar to a familiar happening near Dave's house ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | April 20, 2012 at 03:56 PM
This happens to me ALL THE TIME.
Stupid landing gear.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | April 20, 2012 at 08:37 PM