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Pilot's crazy rant
By MAKI BECKER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New
York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called
those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said
yesterday.
Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many
frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones,
witnesses told CBS News.
Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to
"raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger,
Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS.
He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand
raised is crazy," Nelligan said.
"He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip
worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan
said.
Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring
passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger.
Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre"
and wondered whether his comments were a threat.
CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available.
American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being
investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate
behavior.
The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica,
the spokesman said.
"It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be
appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said.
The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman
said.
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| User: "Phillip Brown" |
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08 Feb 2004 06:23:46 PM |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:34:56 -0700, - DefaultUser wrote:
Pilot's crazy rant
By MAKI BECKER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New
York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called
those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said
yesterday.
Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many
frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones,
witnesses told CBS News.
Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to
"raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger,
Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS.
He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand
raised is crazy," Nelligan said.
"He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip
worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan
said.
Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring
passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger.
Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre"
and wondered whether his comments were a threat.
CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available.
American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being
investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate
behavior.
The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica,
the spokesman said.
"It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be
appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said.
The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman
said.
Why do they need pilots, anyway? After all, everyone knows is Jesus that
keeps all those planes up in the air. Well, most of them.
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phillip brown
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: __ Religious Indoctrination on American Airline flights - Ashcroft's master plan? __ |
08 Feb 2004 03:50:23 PM |
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:34:56 -0700, "- DefaultUser" <root@dev.nul>
posted in alt.atheism:
Pilot's crazy rant
By MAKI BECKER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to
"raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger,
Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS.
He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand
raised is crazy," Nelligan said.
"He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip
worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan
said.
Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring
passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger.
I'm just surprised that some passenger didn't "relieve him of duty".
We already know that religious nuts are capable of crashing planes
they're in.
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"My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid
consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and
ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who
works on the basis of reward and punishment. "
- Letter to M. Berkowitz, October 25, 1950; Einstein Archive 59-215
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "Lord Calvert" |
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08 Feb 2004 04:28:46 PM |
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I'm just surprised that some passenger didn't "relieve him of duty".
We already know that religious nuts are capable of crashing planes
they're in.
Why do you think the pilots are armed now? To prevent exactly that from
happening.
It seems that the best way now to repeat 9/11 is to get a religious
fundamentalist wacko hired by an airline...and the Bush administration has
taken considerably steps to insure that such people CANNOT be stopped.
Rich Goranson, Amherst, NY, USA (aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1)
EAC Department of Applied Rattan Use
"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which
leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy." - Robert Anton
Wilson
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| User: "Gene Seibel" |
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08 Feb 2004 09:40:08 PM |
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What an interesting experiment. ;)
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.
"- DefaultUser" <root@dev.nul> wrote in message news:<KbwVb.35$Z71.35041@news.uswest.net>...
Pilot's crazy rant
By MAKI BECKER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New
York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called
those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said
yesterday.
Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many
frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones,
witnesses told CBS News.
Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to
"raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger,
Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS.
He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand
raised is crazy," Nelligan said.
"He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip
worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan
said.
Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring
passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger.
Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre"
and wondered whether his comments were a threat.
CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available.
American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being
investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate
behavior.
The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica,
the spokesman said.
"It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be
appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said.
The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman
said.
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