Northwest pilots "were on a frolic" ??

[Fuzz]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/faa-revokes-northwest-pilots-licenses-2009-10-28

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Northwest pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination last week because they were distracted by laptops, conversations and a bathroom break had their licenses revoked, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday. The FAA said the pilots, Capt. Timothy B. Cheney and first officer Richard Cole, "were on a frolic," violated a number of regulations and operated the plane in an "extremely reckless manner," The Wall Street Journal reported. Flight 188 was traveling from San Diego to Minneapolis on Oct. 21 when it fell out of radio contact with ground controllers for 91 minutes, passing over its destination and continuing for another 150 miles before turning around to land safely.

[bbinacan]

1. "On a frolic"?

What exactly does that mean?

[trumad]

2. LOL---Sounds like a Brit term.

[Cassandra]

5. Skipping around the cockpit...

throwing rose petals out the window, perhaps? :shrug:

[AngryAmish]

22. It is a legal term of art

Under normal conditions an employer is liable for their employees actions on the job -- you drive a truck and cause an accident then it is on the employer through vicarious liability.

But if the employee takes the employers truck and decides to help his brother move without telling the employer, then the employee is on a frolic of his own and the employer will not be held liable for an accident.

[bbinacan]

23. Thanks for the info. n/t

[progthinker]

3. They

Were playing mine sweeper. Can't blame them realy.

[Name removed]

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[EOTE]

10. I counted one spelling error and one capitalization mistake.

However, you should know that your grammar could use some brushing up on as well. It should be "your spelling and grammar ARE atrocious." What was that I recall hearing about casting stones?

[KatyMan]

15. :) Skitts Law

A thread on internet 'rules' was posted here earlier. Funny how it was immediately relevant:

"Expressed as "any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself" or "the likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster."

It is an online version of the proofreading truism Muphry’s Law, also known as Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6408927/Internet-rules-and-laws-the-top-10-from-Godwin-to-Poe.html

[pipi_k]

17. Yep, I see it all the time

That's why I generally refrain from putting someone down for spelling or grammatical errors. Don't wanna look like a fool, ya know... ;)



Plus, sometimes the errors are made by people whose native language isn't even English.

How rude is that...to publicly point out errors made by someone who can write/speak a second language when many of us can't even handle our own native language...

[woo me with science]

16. The poster's "spelling and grammar is atrocious"?

They is?

Is they?


:rofl:

[pipi_k]

18. Know it snot....

so there!


:7

[VWolf]

20. Is our children learning?

Or not?

[Xipe Totec]

14. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[BolivarianHero]

4. Ummm...

My guess is that they were attempting to hike the Appalachian Trial but got lost in the Northwest Passage.

[spinbaby]

7. LOL

I'm not sure why that sounds really dirty, but it does.

[Jennicut]

26. That is exactly what I thought too.

;-)

[Angry Dragon]

6. Capt. Tim Cheney

I wonder if any relation to Dickie. Asleep at the Wheel was a country swing band out of Texas.

[Lex]

9. sounds like sex

[Raster]

19. "Oh yeah, pull back on the throttle, Captain."

"Ooops, we overshot."

[Fuzz]

21. Imagine having to clean up all those dials n stuff. That's what took all that time.

;)

[Raster]

24. "This is your Captain speaking: we are going to need a clean-up in the cock-pit."

[LisaM]

11. It's funny you picked up on that

I noticed it, too, and thought the language was a tad unusual!

[marmar]

12. I was "on a frolic" too.....in the Dampkring coffee shop in Amsterdam....two years ago.

:smoke:

[pipi_k]

13. I suspect they were Farkling

on Face Book.

So easy to get distracted...


:+

[Berry Cool]

25. Oh man. Well, is it surprising that pilots are fool enough to think they can multitask

when we live in a country of people trying to eat breakfast, brush their teeth, change the radio and talk on the phone as they drive to work in the morning?

"On a frolic"...jeez.

[Stevenmarc]

27. "On a frolic" well they don't call it the Cockpit for nothing