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Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:33 pm

The world has gone mad, a decorated war hero (with an amazing 'tash) in the poo!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 034412.stm
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby C » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:43 pm

Tell 'im he's a very naughty boy and give him his job back...


...and wait for him to say up yours and take redundancy.

Whatever happened to the days when a Captain had final say on what does and doesn't go on his aeroplane? This was a private charter (albeit on a well known airline) and serves to show that airline bosses nowadays are a bunch of eejits who would have difficulty finding there own nether regions if the was a big sign on them saying "nether region"... >:(
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby Anark » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:38 pm

Absolutely bloody ridiculous.
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby Craig. » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:42 pm

Tell 'im he's a very naughty boy and give him his job back...


...and wait for him to say up yours and take redundancy.

Whatever happened to the days when a Captain had final say on what does and doesn't go on his aeroplane? This was a private charter (albeit on a well known airline) and serves to show that airline bosses nowadays are a bunch of eejits who would have difficulty finding there own nether regions if the was a big sign on them saying "nether region"... >:(

Post of the day, funny and true all in one go. ;D
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby Hagar » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:56 pm

The point is, who blabbed? ::)
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby C » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:00 pm

The point is, who blabbed? ::)


From other perusals elsewhere, I believe it may have been a member of the cabin crew.
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby spitfire boy » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:01 pm

The point is, who blabbed? ::)


Possibly the co-pilot? I can't think of anyone else who'd have known such detail as was mentioned about Robbie's visit to the flight deck; "...was allowed near the controls..."

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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby C » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:34 pm

The point is, who blabbed? ::)


Possibly the co-pilot? I can't think of anyone else who'd have known such detail as was mentioned about Robbie's visit to the flight deck; "...was allowed near the controls..."

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To the press, being in the cockpit is "near to the controls". If it was the co-pilot I'd have serious reservations as to why he hadn't objected to it in the first place if he were to then complain.
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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby expat » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:50 pm

I would not be surprised if there is a lot more to this than just this one story. Pablo Mason has always been a man who calls a spade a spade and did things his way. Maybe this was the excuse that Mytravel where looking for.

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Re: Pablo Mason in trouble!

Postby beaky » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:03 pm

This really is silly... even if this was an airline flight, there was probably just as much chance that the other flight officer was a terrorist "sleeper".

So far, no well-known athletes have interfered with the controls of an airplane, but there has been at least one instance where the pilot at the controls of an airliner has intentionally killed himself and everyone aboard.
 Food for thought... although I'm not saying the locked door policy is not a good idea for airline flights.
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