Southwest pilot comments caught on open mic - OOPS

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/pilots-rant-flight-attendants-caught-open-mic/story?id=13903790

http://www.click2houston.com/news/28313662/detail.html

[bluestate10]

1. I like the statement from the pilot that said "that is not us, and they wonder why

pilots have a bad reputation". Southwest should fire the asshole that was the person making the crude statements.

[Poll_Blind]

2. +1

Yeah, I heard that too. How bad does everyone else have to feel listening to that bullshit.

PB

[Hawaii Hiker]

44. LOL, yeah "that is not us",

Sure...It must have been the pilots on the Qantas LAX-Sydney flight, some 6,000 miles away...

The unamed pilot is still on the job...

[MissMarple]

3. Ouch! That's going to hurt.

He didn't get fired, but the flight attendants are not happy.

[somone]

4. Asshole should have been fired

[XemaSab]

8. He totally should have been fired

I would think that every one of those 12 flight attendants could have a potential harassment claim against the airline. Plus all the future flight attendants who are on his plane, and you KNOW they all know who it was.

[JVS]

5. Oh how sad that his job hasn't turned out to be the nonstop mindblowing orgy he was hoping for.

[Atman]

6. It would be more awesome if you posted a synopsis.

I'm not clicking on blind links. Be courteous...tell us a bit about what you've linked to.

[XemaSab]

11. It was two articles about what the pilot said

and then what happened afterwards.

[Atman]

14. And still...

No synopsis.

:shrug:

[Raine]

17. Yeah really. I'm on dial-up ... too slow to click on every link

you would think someone would be kind enough to give us a hint of what was said. :-(

[XemaSab]

24. Here:

Air Traffic Controller - (ATC) "United 242, you (center up)"
(Stuck microphone begins) Southwest Pilot: "Well, I had Tucson to Indy all four weeks and, uh, Chicago crews…11 out of 12 …there’s 12 flight attendants, individual, never the same flight attendant twice.
"Eleven (expletive) over the top (expletive), (expletive) homosexuals and a granny." (silence)
"Eleven. I mean, think of the odds of that. I thought I was in Chicago, which was party-land."
(Possible attempt to interrupt by ATC)
Southwest Pilot: "After that, it was just a continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes…" (off mic from his copilot - inaudible)
Pilot answers: "Well I don’t give a (expletive). I hate 100 percent of their (expletive)."
"So, six months, I went to the bar three times. In six months, three times." (Another possible attempt to interrupt by ATC)
"Once with the granny and the (slur against gay people), and I wish I hadn’t gone."
"At the very end with two girls, one of them that was part do-able, but we ended up going to the bar and then to the crew at St. Louis, and all these two women wanted to do was, one wanted to berate her sister and the other wanted to bitch about her husband."
"Literally, for three hours, me and the F.O. (First officer). When that was done, got back to my room, I’m like why the (expletive) did I stay up?"
ATC: "OK, whoever is, uh, transmitting, better watch what you’re saying."
(Tones beeping)
Southwest Pilot continues: "They’re still both (inaudible), you know what I mean? I still wouldn’t want anyone to know if I had banged them."
(Tones beeping)
"So, I mean it was a complete disaster for six months."
"Now I’m back in Houston, which is easily where the ugliest base is. I mean it’s all these (expletive) old dudes and grannies and there’s like maybe a handful of cute chicks."
ATC: "OK, someone’s got a stuck mic and, uh, telling us all about their endeavors. We don’t need to hear that."
(Stuck microphone episode ends)
(Silence)
(Five seconds later, other commercial pilots check in with controllers)
"Uh, Houston, Skywest 6285, we're (gives numbers for his heading) ...and that was not us."
ATC: (Chuckles) "Skywest 6285, Houston Center: Roger, Climb and maintain flight level 360."
Skywest pilot: "360, Skywest 6285….And they wonder why airline pilots have a bad reputation."
(ATC calls another plane with instructions.)
(Aircraft answers)
ATC: "Number 7 Hotel Bravo: (gives instructions) Final 240."
Aircraft answers "7 Hotel Bravo.....And it wasn’t us either." (beeping times 2)
ATC: 'Roger, I didn’t think that was you." (Recording ends)

[City Lights]

28. Thank you very much for posting that! nt

[Pithlet]

36. I love the end where the pilots let ATC know it wasn't them.

Major awkward moment for asshole Southwest pilot.

[marmar]

38. What assholes !!!!

nt

[Raine]

18. but WHAT did the pilot say, not all of us can click on links that easily

can't you give us a hint ... PLEASE.

[LiberalAndProud]

16. He vented because the flight attendants weren't suitable for dating.

"gays, grannies and grandes"

lots of expletives and derrogatory terms deleted

His mike was stuck, so it also interfered with communications between FAA and other planes.

[girl gone mad]

50. In this case, "dating" would be a euphemism..

for fucking and chucking.

Those poor pilots. They so deserve supermodel flight attendants who will cater to their every sexual whim after they land the plane. So heartbreaking that they have to work with gay men and non-doable women.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. +1

[TygrBright]

7. So he apologized to the FAA controllers, but not the flight attendants?

Dude wants to keep his job, he should have to apologize personally to every single flight attendant he's ever flown with.

What an austrolopithican asshole.

disgustedly,
Bright

[IScreamSundays]

9. to be fair...

the pilot thought he was having a private conversation with a co-worker. The guy is entitled to his own thoughts and ideas. It is not like he said those things to the flight attendants.

[XemaSab]

12. There's still on the job professionalism

How does he know that his co-pilot isn't gay? Or that his co-pilot doesn't have a gay friend or family member?

I, for one, do not want to be exposed to racism, sexism, homophobia, or any other -ism on the job, and I would complain to my supervisor if that was my colleague.

[IScreamSundays]

15. I am very sure he knew his co-pilot

I worked at the same job for 20 years and I knew who I could confide in and who I could not. I would not go off on a rant to someone who I did not feel comfortable with. I am sure it was done in joking and fun and all of that.

[JVS]

13. But also to be fair, being upset that none of your coworkers is particularly attractive/fuckable...

isn't really the kind of griping about your job that would indicate a real problem.

[IScreamSundays]

It sounds to me like it really was probably a joking type of

conversation. I mean really...come on...Surely the man can find someone in the hotels that he stays in. It is probably a typical cockpit joking around subject. You people are taking the subject IMO, and it is just my opinion, way too seriously.

[marmar]

27. "You people are taking the subject IMO, and it is just my opinion, way too seriously"

Not everyone thinks homophobic, sexist, ageist banter is humorous.

[IScreamSundays]

31. OK marmar

it is lucky for you that you cannot read people's minds nor eavesdrop on their private conversations because you would spend all of your life miserable,

[IScreamSundays]

19. It sounds to me like it really was probably a joking type of

conversation. I mean really...come on...Surely the man can find someone in the hotels that he stays in. It is probably a typical cockpit joking around subject. You people are taking the subject IMO, and it is just my opinion, way too seriously.

[ergot]

30. Well, as much as I think the guy is a huge dick, I agree with you

and I do so not without some regret...as a gay commercial pilot myself...freedom of speech shouldn't be restricted to words we happen to like. Dammit. ;-)
The obvious invertantcy of the incident absolves him to a large degree.

[Pithlet]

42. If he weren't at work, that would be one thing.

But if you are on the job, and your speech which would be considered harassment is accidental broadcast, then it doesn't matter if it's inadvertent. He was being unprofessional, whether he thought he was being overheard whether via an accidental open mike or other co-workers. Why should his co-workers have to suck it up just because he didn't mean for it to be heard.

[IScreamSundays]

10. to be fair...

the pilot thought he was having a private conversation with a co-worker. The guy is entitled to his own thoughts and ideas. It is not like he said those things to the flight attendants.

[Pithlet]

20. True. But it turned out he wasn't. Oops.

Consequences time. Sometimes it's good to make darn sure some thoughts and ideas remain private.

[IScreamSundays]

22. yep and

sucks to be him

[IScreamSundays]

23. yep and

sucks to be him

[seabeyond]

29. to be fair.... every gay, granny and "chick" gets to think he is a piece of shit man. nt

[IScreamSundays]

33. fair enough nt

[Capitalocracy]

46. I'm not a gay, granny, or a chick...

but I'd be willing to defend my right to also think he's a piece of shit.

[seabeyond]

48. high fivin ya.... nt

[ergot]

21. My buddy, an Eastern Airlines pilot years ago, didn't notice a stuck microphone button

after the usual after-take-off PA announcement, he was heard to say "Now all I need is a cup of coffee and a good piece of ass"

The senior stew...er, flight attendant ran forward to tell him about the open mic and an older lady in a aisle seat yelled out "Honey, you forgot the coffee!"

[LiberalAndProud]

25. Okay, that's funny.,

[XemaSab]

26. That IS funny

:D

[sufrommich]

32. lol. nt

[cordelia]

34. Thanks for the laugh.

I worked for Eastern but never heard that story. It's great!

[IScreamSundays]

35. lol nt

[SoCalDem]

39. That guy watched a few too many 1960's movies..n/t

[sufrommich]

40. Or thinks Mad Men is a documentary. nt

[IDemo]

41. I guess it could have been worse

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

[muntrv]

43. Please expose this dirtbag for the world to see.

[Capitalocracy]

45. Captain Quagmire? nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. oops

[originalpckelly]

49. FAA to create new regulations renaming cockpits to assholepits after latest incident.

[Aerows]

51. Well

everyone he works with, now knows what an asshole he is. If he's based out of Houston, I'd imagine things won't be too pleasant for him anymore. I'm sure most people will know exactly who he is LOL.