Any you boys seen an aircraft carrier around here?

[DCA_HORN]

Link

 

[EuroHorn]

To make this West Mall related. He must be a democrat.

 

[dognduckhorn]

"One of the passengers on Flight AC848 from Toronto to Heathrow, Sean Finucane, said the co-pilot was taken into the cabin in restraints in front of business-class passengers 15 minutes before the aircraft began its descent.

He told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: "He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly.

"His voice was clear so he didn't sound drunk or anything. He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God.

"When they tried to put his shoes on later, he swore and threatened people. He was very, very distressed."

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It's current events here, too Eurohorn. But since you started the roll, my money is on the fact that he was an evangelical Religious Right Republican. After all, he wanted to talk to God....

Can you imagine being a passenger on this flight? They drag the copilot out of the cabin, and he is wanting to go see God? And you're sitting there thinking "By God, if HE wants to go see GOD right now, that means we're ALL going to see GOD BECAUSE HE'S FLYING THIS PLANE....."

And I thought the only things to be terrified about flying is that some nut in the cabin would hijack the plane and kill us all because THEY wanted to see God. Little did I know about the nut in the cockpit.....

 

[EuroHorn]

Maybe he was thinking about the poem "High Flight", which is pretty well known among pilot types. It references God too.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

 

[dognduckhorn]

You can't fool me. Obviously Magee stole that from Reagan, who used it to pay tribute to the Challenger crew. Never mind that he wrote it in 1941

 

[zzzz]

"The captain and crew of AC848 followed Standard Operating Procedures"

SOP: "Get him!"

 

[ScoPro]

"Kn..kn..kn..knock hi..hi..hi..him th..th..th..the fu..fu..fu..fu..**** out!"