Off duty pilot arrested for attempt to bring plane down (Alaska Air)

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Oct 23rd, 2023 | 03:21 PM

annw

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Off duty pilot arrested for attempt to bring plane down (Alaska Air)

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/ar...harecount=MQ==

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...isable-engines

Oct 23rd, 2023 | 03:51 PM

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Been following this story all day. The ATC recordings are amazing - the captain/first officer were so calm. So far the assumption is alcohol was involved. His career and life in general are over . . .

Oct 23rd, 2023 | 04:19 PM

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. . . He was dead heading Sunday down to SFO on Horizon to pilot a mainline Alaska flight Sunday night. He would have been responsible for 200+ passengers and crew - one can only imagine.

Oct 23rd, 2023 | 07:29 PM

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. . . He was dead heading Sunday down to SFO on Horizon to pilot a mainline Alaska flight Sunday night. He would have been responsible for 200+ passengers and crew - one can only imagine.

Mama mia! didn't read that part. Ugh!

Oct 24th, 2023 | 01:38 PM

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OMG -- apparently he was high on mushrooms!!!

Oct 24th, 2023 | 07:33 PM

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OMG -- apparently he was high on mushrooms!!!

WTF! Guessing his flying (in a plane) days are behind him.

Oct 24th, 2023 | 08:27 PM

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As someone mentioned earlier, life as he knew it is behind him. I'm glad they caught him before he was able to actually hurt people.

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Oct 29th, 2023 | 07:04 AM

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One wonders if this was the scenario with the mysterious Malaysian flight that disappeared a few years ago. Could that pilot or one of his colleagues, have engineered that tragic disappearance?
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