Boeing pilot 'sacked for Top Gun stunt'

[myke]

Anyone have a video link, sounds interesting and thats a fit plane but a stupid manoeuvure (sp?)

[xxMATTGxx]

Anyone have a video link, sounds interesting and thats a fit plane but a stupid manoeuvure (sp?)

Its not a stupid thing to do, its normal for delivery flights like i have said. Its called a ceremony, where the aircraft do a low fly by over the boeing field, where it was mostly likely made then flies off to its destination. This has happened many of times, just this once unfortunately the airline sacked the pilots for doing it.

[myke]

But if they've been told not to then it is stupid imo.

[xxMATTGxx]

But if they've been told not to then it is stupid imo.

Nooo, You don't see. They had permission to do it from the ATC right, they got to their destination the so called FAA in that country didn't like what they did and contacted the airline for them to do something or it may loose its license. But they sacked the flight crew who were in command of the aircraft at the time.

[Swearwolf]

if they had permission then why did they get sacked ? :s

[myke]

I understand now Matt, thanks !

[xxMATTGxx]

if they had permission then why did they get sacked ? :s

Federal Aviation Administration in Hong Kong, has a different name but you get the idea. The aircraft has an hong kong registration which if it breaks any laws even if its not the country they still can get done. So thats why they got fired.

Some of the above will be wrong, as i'm not sure how it works. But thats how it kinda worked and why.

[jesus]

Not really, its very common they do such of things like this at the Boeing field on the delivery flights, but these crew were one of the hopeless ones and got fired for it, because they never got permission from the airline.

Thus making him 'crazy' as I previously mentioned.

[---MAD---]

He did a low fly past, which in reasons and without permission the pilots can get fired. The pilots had permission from the airports atc and all that but the guys back in the airlines country didn't like it and they did not have permission and all that so they got fired.

Ah I see. Not sure whether I agree or not with the firing as I don't know enough about how things like this work .

[cocaine]

daaaamn that was low