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The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot

Übermittelt vor 13 Jahren

This is Thomas Salme, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot license. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for thirteen years without any incidents. (gizmodo.com) Mehr...

Karl Lehenbauer

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Victor Bretones vor 13 Jahren 0

holy s*(&^ i would be suing of the airline gave me a pilot with no experience

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dbaker vor 13 Jahren 0

According to the comments on the linked site, the guy held a commercial pilot ticket.

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Casey Strickland vor 13 Jahren 0

Awsome story but true :) I fly flight simulator for 9 years now :)

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Casey Strickland vor 13 Jahren 0

Awsome story but true :) I fly flight simulator for 9 years now :)

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Keith Woody vor 13 Jahren 0

Most FOs I know think the old Captain is stupid and the Captains think the FOs know nothing.
They are probably both right in this case.

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P.J. Tiernan vor 13 Jahren 0

You just never know

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Joe Guercio vor 13 Jahren 0

I'm amazed that no one noticed until just a few months ago. People are sure to look at documents a little closer now!

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Rick Gull vor 13 Jahren 0

Headline should read: "Pilot With Fake License". He obviously was a pilot, his skills were real, just the piece of paper was fake. I know lots of people with pilot's licenses that aren't pilots. I guess you could say that they are the "fake pilots".

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krasi valkov vor 13 Jahren 0

should give him a license that is not cool to penalize

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krasi valkov vor 13 Jahren 0

should give him a license this cool

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krasi valkov vor 13 Jahren 0

yes yes

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dodger4 vor 13 Jahren 0

It shows you just how valuable the paper licence is...not worth a pinch of coon shit.

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Thomas Moore vor 13 Jahren 0

I was driving race cars and dirt bikes @ 8 yrs old.. Nobody bitched at me for not having a license..Common sense far ourweighs a piece of paper.. besides, lets save some trees instead of wasteing them on some legal bull **it

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Zigrida Dzenis vor 13 Jahren 0

Hmmmmm, interesting comments that reflect our careless attitudes in our present society.
I wonder if we would be so glib if an incident had occured. I guess that is what keeps our lawyers happy.

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Zigrida Dzenis vor 13 Jahren 0

Hmmmmm, interesting comments that reflect our careless attitudes in our present society.
I wonder if we would be so glib if an incident had occured. I guess that is what keeps our lawyers happy.

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