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05-17-2010, 02:30 PM | #1 |
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Fake Pilot flies Passangers for 13 years
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.
The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot - Thomas Salme - Gizmodo The hilarious thing is that by this point he's clearly logged enough hours to qualify to be a real pilot. So I'm guessing as soon as his punishment conditions are up, he'll be back to flying. I'd trust him. |
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05-17-2010, 02:31 PM | #2 |
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13 years, no faults... Alright, cool... I'd fly with him.
Its still a funny ass story... I mean, if he is an aerodynamics engineer then he probably knows a good bit already when he started |
05-17-2010, 04:47 PM | #6 |
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Article is dead on.
Could have turned out A LOT worse. Despite putting the lives of thousands at risk, Salme only got fined a couple thousand dollars and was banned from flying for a year. Thinking twice about it, it's kind of reasonable. Despite being crazy enough to pull such a stunt, it's not entirely his fault. After all, how can a company and the flight agencies involved be so absolutely inept? How can they accept a simple printout and put a random guy in the cockpit of a passenger plane without running any background checks? A simple computer search would have probably turned out enough information to stop this from the beginning. I can imagine Frank Abagnale Jr. pulling this stunt in the 60s, but now? There are no excuses. If anyone needs to be nailed, that's the useless authorities that make us follow all kinds of stupid security procedures to get into an airplane, but can miserably fail to check the identity and qualification of the pilots flying the plane. [Focus] |
05-17-2010, 05:41 PM | #8 |
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my friend had every flight simulater that came out for windows and he literally could fly any plane he wanted. so i think the simulaters are good lessons.. he was going to do commercial flights and make a career off of it. but unfortuantly he has a bad record and being in commercial piloting you can not have any kind of criminal back round what so ever
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05-18-2010, 01:06 AM | #14 |
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bottom line is that said pilot didn't have the neccesary qualifications to fly passenger jets.
It does however, add plausibility that he was able to do the job without issue until now. this isn't some random joe putting out a bogus resume & getting hired. Ppl's lives are at stake. Usually I scoff at the media for sensationalizing. In this case I'm glad it was brought to attention. Goes to show how vulnerable some of the existing security procedures are. |
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Same here......His record is better than most who are legit
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