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wrote in message ... On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:51:45 GMT, Jerry Springer wrote: I believe that any pilot that flies drunk should be hung out to dry by any means possible. Those two A**H*** jerks were responsible for a whole lot of lives. I would hate to be on the airline that had a drunk pilot or two flying it. I don't even want a drunk pilot flying anywhere around the airspace I am flying my RV-6 in. How can two people that are intelligent enough and spent years getting to the positions they were in blow it like that? Jerry Course Bernie this is off topic for this newsgroup. :-) Yes, off topic, but permit this one final thought. Institutionalized alcoholism is a fact of military flying. Officer's Clubs, Stag bars (flight suit only), rolling dice for who buys ... it's a macho pilot thing where the millitary will deny a problem exists ... but in fact, they serve serve up the booze and enable the whole drinking culture. Most airline types are ex-military. Where did you get your statistics? It was my understanding that the current rank of airline pilots are about 50% military. Military has a "drinking culture". You can draw the connections. Not to defend what they did ... but perhaps to explain how they might have gotten there. timepilot I used to drink alot when I was young, but don't anymore. What the millitary members did while they were young has very little do with current behavior. -- Jim in NC |
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