Originally Posted by
CPRich
"“Co-Pilot Lands Jet in Syracuse After Pilot Dies." is misleading? You refer to yourself as " copilots like me", so if someone like you landed the plane...what am I missing?
In your earlier article on the topic,
This reads pretty much the same as the NYT article, to my untrained eyes.
If I'm jointly/mutually X, how does that imply that I'm not X? It's seems to be the exact opposite.
What would you have preferred the NYT to use instead of "Co-Pilot Lands Jet"?
The problem is with the combination "pilot and copilot." I do prefer captain and first officer. Both are fully qualified pilots, and the more senior one is the captain who has the ultimate authority for the flight (pilot in command). However on many, many flights the first officer is the "pilot flying" for most of the trip.
Many of the news articles made it seem as if the jet were in danger of falling from the sky had it not been for the heroic efforts of this barely capable person in the second seat. It surely was a much harder job to land the plane without the captain helping with checklists, confirming actions and communication, but all pilots are trained for these scenarios.