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    Default Don't worry about illusory drunk angry Russian pilots; planes fly themselves!

    "The first thought that occurred to me was, 'This guy is drunk,'" said Khatuna Kobiashvili, a passenger on the Moscow-New York flight. "His speech was so slurred it was hard to tell what language he was speaking."

    As passengers, including a Moscow Times reporter, related their concerns to the flight crew, they were told to "stop making trouble" or get off the Boeing 767 jet. A passenger who called Aeroflot's head office received a similar rebuff.

    "They told me that it was impossible for a pilot to be drunk and hung up the phone," said the passenger, Tatyana Vorontsova.

    After a chaotic hour during which passengers pleaded with flight attendants, crew and several Aeroflot representatives who boarded the plane, unexpected help came from socialite and TV host Ksenia Sobchak, who was also on the plane, and all four pilots were replaced.
    At the same time, an Aeroflot representative sought to assure them that "it's not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk."

    "Really, all he has to do is press a button and the plane flies itself," the representative said. "The worst that could happen is he'll trip over something in the cockpit."
    Immediately after the incident, Dannenberg told Komsomolskaya Pravda that the pilots were removed from the plane because of "mass psychosis" among the passengers. In the same interview, Dannenberg said Aeroflot would sue Sobchak if the costs of delaying the flight were "very large."
    http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/600/42/374157.htm

    More recently (literally hours ago), a September 14th Aeroflot crash that killed 88 people was blamed on "alcohol and pilot confusion," with "an unspecified amount of alcohol was detected in the pilot's body."

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...5Bw-AD968RNDG1
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    My roommate's sister is a pilot and she says that planes will lift-off and land without pilot intervention, but of course passengers would like the pilot to be there in the event of emergency.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy View Post
    My roommate's sister is a pilot and she says that planes will lift-off and land without pilot intervention, but of course passengers would like the pilot to be there in the event of emergency.
    but what if the pilot's teenage son is allowed to come into the cabin and accidentally turns off the auto-pilot?


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    Now that's funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy View Post
    Now that's funny.
    Indeed. I think it's also amusing that you're characterizing pilots fit to fly as a "service" to the passengers rather than something that's necessary. Oxygen masks 25 rubles...


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    In Soviet Russia, plane fly you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
    Indeed. I think it's also amusing that you're characterizing pilots fit to fly as a "service" to the passengers rather than something that's necessary. Oxygen masks 25 rubles...
    Well essentially pilots aren't 100% required. They are of course there in the event of failure or emergency. So they are now the back-up system.

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