FedEx Cockpit Mutiny

CaptainEd · Post by **CaptainEd** » 12 Sep 2005, 17:26

Scary stuff. Long download, includes CVR.

http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm

Flight Engineer Auburn Calloway knew his career was about to end. His employer, Federal Express, had recently uncovered a series of irregularities and outright falsifications in both his original employment application and in hundreds of hours of flight records. He was ordered to appear at a disciplinary hearing in the second week of April, 1994. He understood that the likeliest outcome of such a hearing would be his termination, and subsequently the loss of his FAA flight certification.
His solution was as simple as it was horrifying. He ........

athos · Post by **athos** » 12 Sep 2005, 18:20

Scary stuff indeed

vc-10 · Post by **vc-10** » 14 Sep 2005, 09:10

Some people are sick. How could that person try to kill people just because there were some problems with the airline?

regi · Post by **regi** » 14 Sep 2005, 10:21

and even that is not considered an act of terrorism , because it was an american.
If we remember how heavely Egypt Air was handled after the succesful suicide plunge of an Egypt Air flight, we understand that there are double standards in this world.

moons · Post by **moons** » 14 Sep 2005, 12:33

Pretty sick bastard if you tell me.

Luckely his plan didn't work out as he wanted to.

TCAS_climb · Post by **TCAS_climb** » 14 Sep 2005, 15:10

Based on the current definition, the foundation of the United States' independance -the Boston Tea Party- is also a terrorist act.

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

I don't understand why this flight engineer was still allowed to fly while waiting for his hearing. Total non-sense !

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants." (Thomas Jefferson)

n5528p · Post by **n5528p** » 16 Sep 2005, 10:28

regi wrote:and even that is not considered an act of terrorism , because it was an american.
If we remember how heavely Egypt Air was handled after the succesful suicide plunge of an Egypt Air flight, we understand that there are double standards in this world.

Sad but true, I totally agree.

Regards, Bernhard