Jason Maloney is the 24-year-old pilot who had to land his single-engine aeroplane on Rockaway Beach on Monday night – a frightening ordeal that resulted in no injuries to any of the three people on board. Save your applause, however, as another Captain Sully this guy is most definitely not.
Not only individuals are standing up against TSA’s body scans and practices, but the most powerful pilot union in the world is fighting them too, according to this ALPA security alert sent by a Continental pilot. Napolitano’s enemy list keeps growing.
A low-cost airline wants flight attendants to fly aeroplanes in case of emergency. The reason: Having two pilots in the cockpit is too expensive. That’s great, because I really can’t wait to see Steven Slater landing a 747 at JFK.
“Welcome aboard, Captain,” my co-pilot Julian said to me this morning as I stepped into the cockpit of a Boeing 737-800, the world’s most popular commercial aircraft. Despite a complete lack of training and experience, I strapped myself in, adjusted my harness and confidently got ready to take control. At least I knew I couldn’t crash…
Poor bastard RAF pilot couldn’t quite pull off this landing at Kandahar, Afghanistan, although to his credit he stayed with it for as along as he could before popping the top.
This is Thomas Salme, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot licence. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for 13 years without any incidents.
