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Captain's Arm 'Comes Off' While Landing Plane

by positivenegative
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I'm all for equal opportunities for disabled people, but it seems the one-arm pilot jokes I've heard in the past have manifested in this crazy story. In the UK on a Flybe flight from Birmingham to Belfast, a pilot lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said.

Ian Baston, Flybe's director of flight operations and safety, said it was an equal opportunities employer and "in common with most airlines, means we do employ staff with reduced physical abilities".

In the next sentence he says:

"The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority,".

Hmmm.

BBC News - Pilot's artificial arm 'became detached while landing plane'
  • Profile picture of the author Rick Rodd
    His co-pilot obviously lent him a hand to handle this precarious situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Yeah, there are a few reasons why you want to have TWO hands! And human hands have a LOT of tactile feedback, and they can't really put that into an artificial arm.

    As for the "The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority,"statement? That is what an old "teacher" of mine once called "code". That was her word for senseless dreck said out of need for a filler or to comply with social norms that had NO real meaning! It is simply said to allay the questions. If you gave them an FMRI, you would probably discover that the statement was simply repeated from memory. It is 100% ROTE and not even treated as english. Words like safety, priority, "number one"are being redefined NOW! In 100 years or less, this statement will probably be less meaningful than "kit and kaboodle" is now.

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  • Profile picture of the author Rick Rodd
    But I do admire this person:


    So what if he has a prosthethic arm? Nothing's stopping him, except well... yeah concern for the safety of his passengers. But still, even full-armed pilots tend to make mistakes so what's the bias supposed to be again?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
    This is one case where it's acceptable to give the pilot a round of applause upon landing.
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    Raising a child is akin to knowing you're getting fired in 18 years and having to train your replacement without actively sabotaging them.

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