Safe landing by co-pilot and reserve captain.

Transatlantic flight ends safely after pilot collapases...

Apparrent massive MI.

AD

I hope this comes out right, but I would imagine he left with a wonderful view and in the seat of a grand machine... RIP Captain

I'm still amused that the newsies keep taking time to say "the passengers were never in danger"

No shit... "George" was almost certainly flying the aircraft.

AD

Yeah, really.

I was riffed back to FO on the Hercs doing the Sudan run when things got slow and was flying right seat on some airdrops in Southern Sudan. The Capt. went back to the cargo compartment to use the facilities and took his time. When he returned, his eyes were kinda big and we asked him what was wrong and he said his heart had acted up. The only hospital at Lokichoikio was a Red Cross MASH with no EKG. They examined him and told him they thought he had suffered a mild heart attack, but he wouldn't take himself off of flying status. They say denial is a common attribute of a heart attack.

Anyway, I got the Flight Engineer off to the side and told him that if this guy falls forward over the yoke, to drag his dead ass out of my seat. I could have flown it from the right side in the air, but the left side provides the only nosewheel steering on board, so we had it all worked out.

Turned out he did have a heart attack and required a quad bypass, and eventually returned to flying status after some recuperation time.

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Originally posted by Allan DeGroot:
I'm still amused that the newsies keep taking time to say "the passengers were never in danger"

No shit... "George" was almost certainly flying the aircraft.

AD

You don't think that the two other captain qualified F/O's on the flight deck might have had something to do with it do you?

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Originally posted by surestrike:

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Originally posted by Allan DeGroot:
I'm still amused that the newsies keep taking time to say "the passengers were never in danger"

No shit... "George" was almost certainly flying the aircraft.

AD

You don't think that the two other captain qualified F/O's on the flight deck might have had something to do with it do you?

Yeah...

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You don't think that the two other captain qualified F/O's on the flight deck might have had something to do with it do you?

The FO's on this particular flight were well qualified. One is a friend of mine who left Eastern in 1990, hired by CAL in 1990. the other spent 20 years in the the left seat of a KC-135 and has a USAF pension. The top 15% of the guys in the right seat of the B777 have over 23 YEARS with the company, they could be widebody international Captains but are enjoying the QOL.
The domestic structure is so F'ed up, most of us in the middle of the seniority list want nothing to do with it, would rather sling gear for the gummers than put up with the domestic flying headaches. Major airlines have farmed out a large % of US route structures, frozen pensions, paycuts, TSA BS, etc. has soured the appeal of wearing 4 stripes.

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Originally posted by Vemo:

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You don't think that the two other captain qualified F/O's on the flight deck might have had something to do with it do you?

The FO's on this particular flight were well qualified. One is a friend of mine who left Eastern in 1990, hired by CAL in 1990. the other spent 20 years in the the left seat of a KC-135 and has a USAF pension. The top 15% of the guys in the right seat of the B777 have over 23 YEARS with the company, they could be widebody international Captains but are enjoying the QOL.
The domestic structure is so F'ed up, most of us in the middle of the seniority list want nothing to do with it, would rather sling gear for the gummers than put up with the domestic flying headaches. Major airlines have farmed out a large % of US route structures, frozen pensions, paycuts, TSA BS, etc. has soured the appeal of wearing 4 stripes.

This reads like a crystal ball looking into my soul!

I am currently in the bottom 1% on the captains list at my airline. Soon to slide off the bottom back into narrow body right seat HELL!!!

That is what 13 years at my airline will get you. NADA, NOTHING, ZIP!!