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to: rec.aviation.piloting
from: Mxsmanic
date: 2008-01-19 16:20:18
subject: Re: Some info released on Heathrow crash

Denny writes:

> Just to hijack the thread:
> I saw the TV footage of the Captain...  Maybe I'm over sensitive but
> it struck me that he is a grand standing whippy dip (plus his hat is 2
> sizes too small)... He rambled on how as captain of the aircraft he
> was responsible for safety, yadda, yadda, but he had a great crew,
> yadda, yadda... Then lamely concludes his FO was actually flying the
> airplane...  Since the FO was the flying the beast we should have
> heard from him instead of Cap'n Whippy Dip...

Most laypersons assume that the captain flies the plane, even when he's not
flying the plane.
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