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...pilot error. Police in Seoul say that as the plane neared the runway, the Canadian pilot accused the South Korean co-pilot of trying to manipulate the joystick, since the two disagreed on exactly where to land. Interested parties will have to wait for a police analysis of the cockpit's voice recorder to see if the squabbling may have caused the accident...
America has been hard at work in the past 10 days, and here is what happened: a Federal Express pilot took a claw hammer and attacked three others in the cockpit, forcing one of them to put the fully loaded DC-10 cargo plane through a series of violent rolls and nose dives in a melee that brought the whole crew back bleeding. A purchasing manager in suburban Chicago stabbed his boss to death because, police say, they couldn't agree on how to handle some paperwork. And a technician who quit because he had trouble working for a woman...
...case of Auburn R. Calloway, on the other hand, who attacked three of his fellow Federal Express pilots while flying as a jump-seat passenger, is mystifying. The crime-conscious Calloway had organized a Neighborhood Watch program. As an ex-Navy pilot, he knew to respect the cockpit code of solidarity that says you leave your differences on the ground. His possible motive: he was scheduled to appear the next day before a disciplinary hearing at Federal Express to face charges that he lied about his military and work experience...
Perhaps such incidents should come as no surprise from the heirs of an airline whose legacy includes a pilot who, in 1986, tried to demonstrate his feel for an Aeroflot passenger jet by attempting to land with the cockpit blinds closed. More than 60 people were killed. But like the skipper, who survived, the tradition lives on. During a recent flight from northern Russia to Moscow, one curious passenger discovered a party in progress at the back of the plane. Vodka and sandwiches were being shared by most of the crew, including the copilot who, less than an hour from...
...Aeroflot jet pilot was apparently showing his children "the principles of flying" in the cockpit shortly before the plane crashed in Siberia last month, killing all 75 on board, according to a Russian government report. Aeroflot disputed the story...