On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:29:34PM -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> Scott writes:
> >  Well, Mr. Senator sticks his
> >  head up in the cockpit and says 'this plane WILL take - off, I have a press
> >  conference in Bangkok in three hours!"
> ...that only seems to me to be the sign of a someone in command.

Any pilot will recognize this as a sure sign of the most fatal disease in
flying, "get-there-itis". It has killed more pilots and passengers than
anything else. Was that press conference worth dying for? Had the engine not
smoothed out, they'd have run a real risk of doing just that.

Of course, Kerry, famous for asking "Do you know who I am?" when people get
in his way (even though they're only doing their jobs, or patiently waiting
their turn, or whatever), wouldn't care about that kind of little detail...

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