Saturday, February 23, 2013

Was a texting pilot behind JFK runway fail?





Texting? Or just trouble getting a signal?




(Credit: CNET)

We all know that we shouldn't use our cell phones while driving.




Yes, of course we do it anyway, but always with a tinge of guilt.




Surely, though, few would take that same cavalier attitude if they were piloting a plane. Somehow, one imagines that this task requires a little more concentration, amid the prospect of even more serious danger.




Yet it seems that one pilot of a small charter plane may have needed -- or perhaps merely wanted -- to use his cell phone while he was taxiing toward takeoff on Thursday evening.




As it happens, he wasn't wafting along the slipways of some tiny regional airport in Alberta. No, he was at JFK.




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