Flybe pilot drowns neighbours dog!

[mrloudly]

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/video...

Absolutely disgraceful! No way to deal with a problem if he had one! Wouldn't want this jerk flying me around!

[scubadude]

What a bizarre story, more to come no doubt...

[anonymous-user]

What does the fact that he's a "Flyby pilot" have to do with anything?

[mrloudly]

el stovey said:

What does the fact that he's a "Flyby pilot" have to do with anything?

If he can behave like this in his private life would you trust him in a cockpit? He went out searching for the dog with the owners, properly twisted and indeed deceitful!

[MarkwG]

mrloudly said:

el stovey said:

What does the fact that he's a "Flyby pilot" have to do with anything?

If he can behave like this in his private life would you trust him in a cockpit? He went out searching for the dog with the owners, properly twisted and indeed deceitful!

The only relevance I can see is, if his actions are deemed inappropriate for the holder of a licence by the licencing authority, they can take action to remove it - unlike most other professions where he could just carry on regardless...
And also that, prior to this offence, his behaviour was not brought into question, or he wouldn't be flying in the first place...

[jamieduff1981]

I can't get the video to play for some reason.

Is there a history to this story? E.g. loud barking irritating animal sting everywhere or what? Seems a bit bizarre.

I can't stand dogs and would struggle to live beside one I couldn't easily ignore. I don't think I could bring myself to kill the animal but I'd certainly have a very strained relationship with the owners and would probably (and infact actually did, for a number of similar reasons) just move house to somewhere where neighbours couldn't get on my nerves.

I have to admit to not really seeing the Flymaybenot relevance. Unless the pilot has actually just gone mad and is psychotic. If he just lost the rag with an irritating animal penetrating his skull day and night then although not defensible in itself, then I don't personally think that reflects on flying an airliner.

[otolith]

Not right in the head to do such a thing - from the point of view of cruelty to the animal, but also of the hurt caused to the owners.

[IanMorewood]

No doubt his criminal record will affect his future employment prospects. He will end up flying rubber dog turds out of wherever they are made these days.

[awg454]

otolith said:

Not right in the head to do such a thing - from the point of view of cruelty to the animal, but also of the hurt caused to the owners.

I totally agree

[jamieduff1981]

Having thought on this some more, the deception part mentioned above is a problem and does reflect quite badly on a pilot who needs to be open and upfront professionally.

[Ali Chappussy]

I can't even see where the article confirms which airline he flies for.

Anyway, don't flame me for missing it, I'm not letting it bother me at all.

[pushthebutton]

Ali Chappussy said:

I can't even see where the article confirms which airline he flies for.

Anyway, don't flame me for missing it, I'm not letting it bother me at all.

It was there at the start, but I should imagine that the airline(s lawyers) contacted the newspaper and politely questioned its relevance.

[JuniorD]

It's serious, to the extent there's even a twitter campaign "Justice For Meg".

You are not a cause unless you have social media campaign.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/justiceformeg

Woof!

A much more entertaining Flybe story of middle aged military men acting very cross on the fightdeck

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132088/Fl...

Edited by JuniorD on Thursday 12th February 17:24

[Grant76]

el stovey said:

What does the fact that he's a "Flyby pilot" have to do with anything?

Find it strange you have to ask this question...

[trickywoo]

Grant76 said:

Find it strange you have to ask this question...

Me too for what it's worth. Hope el stovie isn't also in a position of trust.

[anonymous-user]

Grant76 said:

el stovey said:

What does the fact that he's a "Flyby pilot" have to do with anything?

Find it strange you have to ask this question...

Would you expect to see a thread titled "RBS branch manager drowns neighbours dog! " or "Virgin train driver drowns neighbours dog!" how about "Carnival Cruise ship captain drowns neighbours dog!" "

So why is the blokes employer of any relevance? What are you going to do with this information? Have you seen the disclosure Scotland of all the pilots of all the aircraft you fly on? It's unnecessary sensationalism.

Edited by el stovey on Thursday 12th February 21:05

[JuniorD]

trickywoo said:

Grant76 said:

Find it strange you have to ask this question...

Me too for what it's worth. Hope el stovie isn't also in a position of trust.

Oh FFS don't be such a big fanny

[mrloudly]

It's not the fact he drowned a family pet, not his, that worries me. It's how he deceived afterwards that concerns me.....

[PulsatingStar]

mrloudly said:

It's not the fact he drowned a family pet, not his, that worries me. It's how he deceived afterwards that concerns me.....

What do you actually expect him to do at this point though. Neighbour comes around asking if youve seen the lost dog. Youre not going to say "actually, I drowned it" are you.

[cold thursday]

PulsatingStar said:

What do you actually expect him to do at this point though. Neighbour comes around asking if youve seen the lost dog. Youre not going to say "actually, I drowned it" are you.

^^^^ This Never admit anything.

Edited by cold thursday on Friday 13th February 02:19