Re: How does it read for you?
by
jandjplus1
07/21/2007, 3:14 PM #
Good Point and exactly what I said in my first Post. Whoever responded to your post did the typical pick and choose what they answer and ignores the rest.
As a Captain for a major airline
that routinely flies into South America I was
very disgusted and dismayed by the crassness and disrespectful article you
wrote. I took the time to find out a
little bit about you before writing and suffice it to say you epitomize all
that is rotten with sensational journalism and your ilk. You write to get an effect without so much as
taking into account whom it might hurt while utilizing the pseudo altar of
authority to appear to have some credence.
You are so like the hundreds of
passengers who feel that because they have ridden in the back for so many miles
that somehow you are now qualified to speak about the internals and pass
judgment on the many professionals that make an airline run. Safe from behind your keyboard you criticize,
pass judgment, without once expressing sympathy, remorse or any common human
decency for the suffering of those families.
I am quite sure that had this been a US carrier you would not have dared
written as you did for fear of certain reprisals. How dare you callously admit to being smug
when so many lives were lost. What makes
it even worse yet is the manner in which you reply to those who have written to
you. This accident could have happened
to anyone anywhere. You need to educate
yourself on all of the accidents that have happened right here in the USA before taking
on any position of authority. Typical
American thinking that the world is run like ours is and is somehow subject to
that line. Go live among them and learn.
I have read your article numerous
times and with each reading become more incensed with what you use as
qualifiers. How does standing in line,
or being delayed have any bearing on anything?
It is quite obvious that you join the ranks of the many that complain
because of delays because the world is not subject to your demands. Then you
white knuckle at every bump and complain about the ride and finally the
landing. Wish that I could just ignore the weather, maintenance, and other
issues and take you for a real ride void of all the safeguards put there at the
cost of many many lives. Sorry that I can’t but I have a family to come home to
and like it or not am responsible for all those lives riding with me. Perhaps
you should become a pilot, mechanic, or ATC controller and when you are done
doing that come back and write this article again. Or better still why not go down to Brazil and make
your stand there far from the safety of your stylish office. You are a disgrace
and you should be ashamed on many fronts.
Go, fly there and share your words of comfort to the families I am sure
you will last the night.
Would that it were still the days of
old when you could tar and feather then run a person out of town on a rail. But
those are much too good for you. I am
forwarding this letter and your article to the many real news agencies as well
as the CEOS of the airlines including TAM and finally to MSN, shame on them and
shame on you. You can ignore this
post but you will be hard pressed to ignore the forthcoming wave heading your
way.
Welcome Aboard!
