Salukipilot4590

Because it just came from the factory.

Just like when something just comes out of MX.

freezingflyboy

Come on, this isn't airliners.net Everyone doesn't need to wish everyone on the plane is ok before bashing those reckless union pilots for charging those high fares. Give me a freaking break. This forum is for professionals, even from half-assed media reports I'm sure most of us were able to conclude early on that the outcome was less than tragic except for a few missed connections.

SUX4U

Pax sits down, shakes his head and says to himself... "man that guy has some serious anger and self confidence issues. Might be better to fly with the guys that went off roading".

On a side note, as small as this industry is you are really pushing the envelope of possibly running your mouth to someone that could maybe help get you out of your crappy regional.

Bozo the pilot

Agreed +++

FLowpayFO

How did the pilots at AA feel when they saw their F100's getting parked and replaced with low paying ERJ's?

This "Legacy Eagle" talk is comical. When I was hired at AE, there were guys in my class with 250hrs! Still had paper tickets, a couple months later they were in ORD, JFK, etc flying paying passengers as a "legacy eagle" pilots.

I'm just glad no one was hurt, because quite frankly that could have been anyone of us, no matter who you work for.

Bzzt

Let's be honest here. No one on this forum is going to "help out" any faceless poster. I think this thread has been predominately a joke and everyone is getting hypersensitive.

Boomer

The term "Hypersensitive" is insensitive to those that suffer from hypersensitivity.

Please use the more polite term... "Butthurt"

ILOVELAMP

Plane had steering malfunction while exiting the runway. Mx fixed the issue couple hours later and the plane flew again today. Look how dramatic that was!!! At least this is what I was told by one of my evil Republic AE pals lol.....

51driver

Something for everyone to get excited about.... Maybe one of you regional FOs will finally upgrade over this!!!

WalkOfShame

I haven't flown the 140/145 so I can't speak for that a/c's systems, but I have flown the 170/190 and the steering disconnect switch (more like a trigger) is on the back of both pilots yokes/ram horns. Now I'll wait for the NTSB report to come out before I pass judgment but I will say that it can be easy to accidentally hit this switch with a finger, especially if using the yoke mounted PTT switch. Even just a light touch and, boom, no steering. No warning, No master caution, no sound, nothing. Just a small white "steering disengage" message on the EICAS. Now I'm not saying this is what happened but it is possible. We've all been into ord and know how the operation there runs and how, no matter what the conditions, tower expects a/c to exit at certain highspeeds regardless of the conditions and we have this become accustom to these procedures as well.... So this could've very well been a AE, OO, AA or UA flight instead. It's happened before. So maybe before posting idiotic, racist, or "they stole my flying" post, you should sit back and consider if it could've been you instead.... And if you say to yourself, "oh that would never happen to me", then please, do us all a favor and step out of the cockpit and quit, because your ignorance is endangering your passengers.