He should say "Aloha Box, TED wants you to be safe"

My MacBook of choice tips the scales at 1,826 clams/3,652 yielded OP miles. All you Mac devotees better not be :rolleyes:-ing me if I'm going to drop that kind of coin on an unfamiliar product.

It's never too early to crack the first disaster joke. Of course my perspective is skewed by having been in middle school when the Challenger blew up.

http://www.ooze.com/articles/9-11-jokes.html

Boeing's better! One of theirs didn't crash today! </a.nut nerd impersonation>

So strange and non-sequitor that they added the last paragraph to that article about the Colgan crash. I guess that makes it relevant, huh?

This is :rolleyes:

Did the Colgan pilots come from there :
Continental Airlines told CNN, “We expect our partners to adhere to the highest safety standards.”


But, there have been other recent plane crashes involving pilots from Gulfstream Academy, including a Colgan Air crash that killed 50 people as their plane neared Buffalo, New York. In 2004, two pilots, both graduates of Gulfstream Academy, died near Jefferson City, Missouri after taking a Pinnacle Air plane on a joy ride up to 41,000 feet. They crashed after losing control of the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed “the pilots’ unprofessional behavior” and “poor airmanship.” And in 2003, a pilot of a private airplane, who was still training at Gulfstream, crashed into another plane off the coast of Deerfield Beach, Florida, killing all five people aboard both airplanes.

“The one thing that ties them all together is poor airmanship,” said Captain Jack Casey, Chief Operating Officer of Safety Operating System, an aviation consulting firm. “You cannot build sophisticated airline pilot skills on top of a soft foundation.”

Relevance is created by any connection, no matter how Kevin Bacon-ish, the talking heads can make that will in their minds create fear and widespread panic.

The PIC did complete training with Gulfstream's training arm, though that is a whole different world than the actual airline. Specious connection at best.

The revenue passenger side of Gulfstream will often cherry-pick the top of the class to stay there and start in the right seat of the Beech. It usually takes those people a year or two to upgrade to the left seat, and they will either stay there doing shorthauls or gain enough time in the left seat to shop themselves to a regional, now with a ton more turboprop time and a much better shot at getting hired. One of the videos on their website covers this, IIRC. That's how the connection doesn't become so specious...they're keeping the top pilots in-house and sending the middle and lower tier grads out on RJ interviews.

Neither do I. :rolleyes:

CO.com has gone off the :rolleyes: cliff. Still unable to book a ticket. :mad: :mad:

Has the DHARMA Initiative released a statement on the AF plane yet?

Good Morning Box.