I don't give a shit if you flew a billion miles. Pilots fly the same friggin airplane type day in day out. Everyday they pull out their checklist that they know verbatim, yet they go down through it. It is procedure. I am not extrapolating. There are ALWAYS 2 pilots; there is ALWAYS a flight crew (stewardess/minimum 1 on the smallest aircraft). There are too many people in the process and procedures that they just don't get skipped. Ever been getting ready for a flight, with the passengers getting aboard the aircraft and the stewardess announces that the plane can't depart the gate until everyone is seated and buckled? You have. Ever been on a flight where the flight attendant says, oh heck there's only 10 people on the plane, we'll let the pilot leave before you're all seated. You haven't, yet this is tantamount to what you suggest. If the pilot doesn't shut and lock the door, the co-pilot will, if he doesn't, the flight attendant will BECUASE IT IS REGULATION. If they don't they are subject to disciplinary action. NO IF"S AND OR BUT's, even on flights of 10 passengers.
>>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.,,
Hundreds of thousands of pilots take off and land daily in the US. They spend hours away from home bored stiff. Yes, every once in a while a pilot tries to fly an airplane under the influence. The issue starts when the pilot makes that decision while being impaired, this is spiraling down affect. And is poor judgment compounded on poor judgment. In the past ten years, I believe there has been something like two or three cases that this has happened on, the number is amazingly small. That decision to fly impaired rested solely with a single person, the person under the influence. Closing and locking of a cabin door does not. You know not what you speak of and understand little of the process and procedures for commercial airline flight.
However, your original premise was this:
>>9/11 would not have happened had the FAA required cockpit doors to be locked while in flight.<<
I knew the rule existed since at least the '70, AND IT IS ADHEARED TO. Thank you for Mr. Lucky for pointing out it was 1968. Which was after the guy hijacked a US airliner demanded some sum of money ($300,000 ??) and demanded several parachutes. He bailed out somewhere over Washington or Oregon, and has never been found. Your own argument doesn't even support your original premise, >>I've been on DC9 2 hour+ flights with as few a eight passengers. I can assure you SECURITY was quite relaxed in those situations. << They relaxed security. What SECURITY if your original premise was that the FAA should have had a rule requiring that cockpit doors be locked????
The liberal spin goes on-and-on....
Jim |
