On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:38:43 GMT, vaughn wrote:
"Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer" wrote in
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...52N63B20090325
PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead
of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane,
I have a friend, a retired airline pilot, who spent a year flying in the
middle east after he "aged out" in the USA. His main comment on returning
was that the locals had a real cultural problem with piloting because too
often their response to an in-flight crisis was fatalism. Some would
actually mumble something like "insah Allah", fold their arms, and watch
events, rather than continuing to fly the plane and do whatever it takes to
innovate their way out of an emergency situation. For that reason, (this
was about 15 years ago) he claimed that Arab airlines generally preferred
western pilots.
Duh.
Good news, more dead 'rabs the better.
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