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Old 25th Jun 2006, 12:57
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Originally Posted by jondc9
the reason this happened is that pilots screw up and quite frankly aren't as professional as one would hope.

Don't think for a moment somthing equally unprofessional didn't happen in this case.

jon
Hello Jon,

Where you there? This is a pretty strong accusation you make here. As far as I understand based upon one situation you encountered in your flying carreer.

As mentioned by someone else in a previous post .... there can be various reasons for this to happen. I agree that a pilot should be sure there is two way radio communication. But sometimes things go wrong. Maybe beacause both pilots were reading a golf magazine, or the playboy, or the .... The exact reason in this case I don't know. Do you?

Get my point?

Happy flying.
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