Dramatic Footage of Aftermath of BA Hijack in 2000
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VintageKrugParticipantWith fewer and fewer exRAF-trained pilots, I suppose it’s going to be rarer to find such exceptional abilities flying commercially in future.
However, I have the utmost confidence in BA pilots, this cannot always be said to be the case with some other airlines.
27 Feb 2013
at 08:25
MartynSinclairParticipantVK, I think you are being a little unkind about the flying skills of non RAF trained commercial pilots. The UK has some of the very best flight schools, with instructors who are not aspiring pilots just out of nappies, but several thousand hour experienced former airline pilots.
UK trained commercial pilots have excpetional abilities flying commercially.
Please also remember that flying military jet requires a totally different set of skills to flying a passenger jet.
27 Feb 2013
at 09:08
IanFromHKGParticipantIndeed, Martyn. I am not a pilot, but I do recall reading that many military jets are designed to be inherently unstable in flight in order to maximise manoeuvreability. I very much hope the opposite is true of passenger jets!!
27 Feb 2013
at 09:23
MartynSinclairParticipantThis is also why commercial cargo pilots and commercial passenger pilots generally dont switch … different sets of flying skills …
27 Feb 2013
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canuckladParticipantVK…..I am not in agreement with the US policy, actually quite the opposite…..
I agree with Martyn about skill set…..in actual fact it goes further than that..
It is generally recognised that ex-military pilots are not physcmetricly suitable for cockpit management….having said that it’s a generalization and there are many examples of ex-military captains rescuing situations…
On the other hand there are many more examples of ex-military captains tendancies to adopt “agressive behavioral traits” rather than “assertive traits” that lead to one dimensional decision making etc…
Giving a pilot a gun, increases testostorone levels within an already very pressurised working enviroment!! But then from a country that is thinking about arming teachers anything is possible!!
27 Feb 2013
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NameRemoved-18/12/14ParticipantWell done that man… an unmistakable Northern Irish accent.
27 Feb 2013
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Henkel.TrockenParticipantI agree with all the recent posts about different skill sets of pilots operating in different areas.
I have a feeling this is a thread that gets bumped when one poster wants to control what we see in the top ten.
27 Feb 2013
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SergeantMajorParticipantThe Report into this incident has now been obtained from the House of Lords library:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/180157/response/446314/attach/2/FOI1114.pdf
Interesting reading, especially for MartynSinclair as it informs the reasoning behind use of crew rest seats on the Upper Deck.
5 Nov 2013
at 12:28
FormerlyDoSParticipantNot interesting, 13 years old, the flight deck has been sterile, between engine start and shutdown for 12 years, this type of incident won’t happen again.
Time to move on, nothing to see here.
5 Nov 2013
at 12:51
FormerlyDoSParticipantIt was a different world then, Esselle.
Unlikely to happen today, with the security trainingthat airline and airport staff undertake, he’d be pulled as a potential threat behaving like that.
But yes, I agree with you about the unjoined dots and the very short conversation between captain and sccm.
5 Nov 2013
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JohnHarperParticipantI just see it as another bumped thread, it’s happening quite a lot at the moment.
New handle, same old game playing.
Will it be dealt with?
5 Nov 2013
at 15:37
SergeantMajorParticipantThere were in fact quite a few famous people on that particular flight.
I understand the pilot was looked after rather well for his quick-thinking and heroic actions.
7 Nov 2013
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