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If you are Christian raise your hand

 
 
BlueMonkey
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 10:49 am
Sorry for no link. How nice for everyone to believe I was lying. Making up this story, no. I have a way better imagination than that. Thanks though.

I do think he should be fired also. I would laugh it off when he said it and during the flight and make it a joke when I got off the plane. Not that I think it is funny that he did what he did, it was wrong people were really scared, but I would have if I was there.
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Turner 727
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 11:39 am
It's not that we didn't believe you, Blue. It's just kind of an incredible story. We've been around enough to want a link to back up the story.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 11:43 am
Wilso, you had the apostrophe right the first time.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 11:52 am
If there isn't a regulation in pilots' work guidelines against this behavior, there needs to be one soon...
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 12:06 pm
I've seen this story on television a few times. I am with those who want the pilot fired. If I were one of the passengers I would seek to initiate a law suit - not for the money, but to help those idiots get their priorities in order.
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Turner 727
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 01:26 pm
Nah, I'd do it for the money. No reason why I can't be helped out at the same time I'm helping them out!
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Heeven
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 01:37 pm
Some of the passengers were interviewed on TV last night and said they thought it was a veiled religious threat. Although he probably never intended it that way - making religious claims or even commenting on a lack of a particular religious faith - frightened them into wondering if he was going to DO something to punish them for their difference in faith.

While commenting or speaking on such things is not against the rules, it is common sense that inappropriate speeches especially about religion on board an airplane could be deemed as inappropriate. If a passenger, or crew did so, the others could ignore or disagree with such a statement, but when it's the pilot and he holds your life in his hands (literally!) it is a very serious matter and people who have a mind to do stuff like this, do not belong in the cock-pit. It's like the pilot who gave the bird while having his photo taken by customs/immigration in Brazil - not a huge issue I know, but totally inappropriate, somewhat threatening, and he got arrested for that!
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caprice
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 02:13 pm
onyxelle wrote:
wilso: i believe it should be 'peoples' "


Turner_727 wrote:
I *think* it's possesive plural, so it goes s' not 's. But I was never very good at english. . .


Here is why it is people's and not peoples'.

People is already plural. So when you refer to the lives of people it is the possessive form of that plural form, i.e. people's. Now if you are talking about groups of people, for example several different tribes in one region, perhaps then you could use the peoples' as the possessive form.
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hobitbob
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 02:23 pm
My first thought, were I one of the pax, would be "Oh shite, we're going to die!"
Followed by: This guy is crazy and intends to crash us into something, or we just had a mechanical failure and are going to blow up.
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 02:35 pm
BBB has a question
I wonder if people on the plane would have reacted in the same manner before 9/11? Would the pilot have engaged the passengers in the same way before 9/11 or only afterward?

BBB
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Heeven
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 03:53 pm
There's enough freaks out there without one of them being your surgeon or pilot!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 08:33 pm
I take quite a hard view of this, thinking the fellow should be fired for inappropriate behavior if that is at all possible, or made to go through lots of possibly endless lessons, I also note this happened on the ground. Haven't read the actual link(s) lately. Were they taxiing? Phones were at hand and laptops? Why did no attendants squawk? Were they hand-raising? Is the pilot not their boss? Aaggggh.

I don't know how I might have reacted. I like to think I would have made some kind of bruhaha, but I don't always hear the pilot. Reminds me of the United Flight with myself in the last seats and the flight attendants describing their lives loudly during the pilot's ladedah. I think I actually did write them about that. Not sure if I Mailed It. I know I remonstrated with the attendants when we deplaned and they shined me on.
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BlueMonkey
 
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2004 10:23 pm
Normaly when the piolt talks the plane is already in motion.
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Turner 727
 
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Reply Wed 11 Feb, 2004 12:53 am
caprice wrote:


Here is why it is people's and not peoples'.

People is already plural. So when you refer to the lives of people it is the possessive form of that plural form, i.e. people's. Now if you are talking about groups of people, for example several different tribes in one region, perhaps then you could use the peoples' as the possessive form.


Well, I said I wasn't good at english! Wink
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