Worst Defense Going --- Pilots weren't operating plane

[wakeme2008]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-locpilots24052405may24,0,3239053.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Defense: Pilots weren't operating plane
By Chrystian Tejedor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

May 24, 2005

MIAMI -- Two former America West pilots charged with operating an aircraft while drunk were so impaired when they entered the cockpit in July 2002 that they failed simple sobriety tests, prosecutors told jurors Monday as the pilots went on trial.

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Defense attorneys said that the airplane's controls were disconnected and that the tug operator, not the pilots, controlled the plane.

"It's like a video game," said James Rubin, Hughes' attorney. "You can sit in the plane and move the controls, but you have no control."..

..more at link...

Let's see they were sitting in the cockpit..

They started the engines.....

They asked permission to "push back" from the ramp....

But they were not "operating" the plane....

Give me a break.....

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Is Florida, still part of the Continental United States?The state that ...

cost us our country, if they can get away with it, Florida will be the place.

[elehhhhna]

2. Well, they can't put a plane in reverse, thus the tug, BUT...

what were they planning to do ? Take a nap on the runway?