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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: J.B.C. who wrote (8734)9/9/2004 4:56:38 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 27181
 
You shouldn't attempt to extrapolate your personal experience to the entire commercial aviation industry without exception.

For example, the rules prohibit pilots from flying while intoxicated. Would you therefore say NO pilot ever flys drunk? From time to time it makes the news when pilots are carted away after attempting to board while obviously drunk. Are we to believe that every other rule is followed to the letter? Get real.

Since 1997 and until after 9/11 the National Transportation Safety Board had held that the FAA should require that each flight\attendant have a cockpit key in his/her possession at all times," or, if airlines consider that the mass distribution of keys is too risky, the cockpit keys must be stored "in a place convenient to the cockpit."

That you have never seen the cockpit key anywhere other than on a flight attendant does not mean others did not choose to store it, as the FAA allowed at the time, in a place "convenient to the cockpit".

I have no reason to lie. I've traveled nearly a million miles between 1978 and 1999 and I've seen a lot. Every pilot and flight attendant I've encountered has been professional and competent, and the rules are generally followed, but there are many times when they aren't.
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