Passenger lands plane after the pilot has a medical emergency (and gets his pilot’s license granted for doing so).
Yes, you read that headline right. It really happened (except the second part). This occurred in Florida and thankfully all went well. Makes you think, right? Why do we need pilots anyway? Does training matter? One landing should be enough.
Here’s another article that just came out:
Regional carrier Republic Airways has asked the DOT to grant it an exception to the 2013 rule that requires pilots to log 1,500 hours of flight time before flying for a commercial airline.
Most airlines ask for this exception due to the pilot shortage. Sound familiar. Republic came up with a new twist:
“Sluggish industry progress toward diversification of cockpit participation calls for a renewed, industry-wide commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. This is clearly a broken pipeline,” the application reads.
Brilliant!!!! They used the old DEI excuse. Who can argue with that? Sure, the plane went down but it doesn’t matter because of diversity, equity and inclusion. No one can ever argue with DEI or they are a racist, xenophobe, bigot, etc.
We have talked about how NPs and PAs have used the “doctor shortage” as a Trojan Horse for full practice authority. Here are our articles comparing it to the pilot shortage:
We predict that the new Trojan Horse plan from the AANP and the AAPA will be this:
NPs and PAs Need Full Practice Authority Due to a Need for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
You heard it here first.
Well Doug, Your article about a passenger landing a commercial airline was a piece o’ crap. I flew smaller airplanes for 157 hours and if I was in a jet like a 737, 717 or DC9, if the captain, 1st officer and flight engineer (who many times were a qualified pilot in the past and wanted to stretch out a flying career as flight engineers) were incapacitated, I’d find the radio and do a Mayday! on 121.5, tell flight controllers the situation and recommend they send up an experienced flight instructor in a personal jet or fast prop plane to talk me down. I’m confident I could have pulled off the landing as I had a good feeling about the changes in flight of flying a in a jet as a passenger. Someone who knew what it felt like to fly onboard. Just needed someone to tell me where the controls/instrument are and what to expect. If someone else isn’t left qualified to fly, I’d step up in an instant.
Oh, actually a Cessna Caravan wouldn’t be that hard for me to land as I’d just need an instructor to direct me to the right controls, flap switch and the landing gear down switch. Prop control they could cue me in on and it would have been an easy landing with supervision. Yeah, I know this might have been satire but it hit a very raw nerve. Kurt Savegnago
I’m still waiting for any nurse “practitioners” to come on here and defend allowing LPN’s to push IV meds, because, y’know… underserved areas … diversity, inclusion, equity … income inequality, the patriarchy, … LPN’s can do 90% of what RN’s can do …
For that matter, why can’t LPN’s be designated as Nurse Practitioners? Why does it require being an RN first?
Standing by for a response from all of you health care team members …
NPs doing online degrees being there’s no criteria for aptitude, intelligence, clinical acumen, or experience. It’s just tuition. The massive increase in NPs is leading to a nursing shortage, which is further supported by the nursing industry because it leads to massive salary increases. Interestingly enough we have a booming industry of NPs setting up Botox clinics. They don’t have to take call or deal with pressure sores or medicare. How does this help our healthcare?