Pilot Dies During Flight To Newark, Passengers Unaware

Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuits dead

Is something wrong?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

imagine if they'd announced that over the loud speaker...

"ladies and gentalmen, we'd just like to let you know that, uhhh..."

i'm imagining the coffee announcement reaction from the movie airplane.

Morals and ethics are at all time low

You know how I can tell that you're Felixthecat3? Your grammar is bloody terrible. Stop stalking me.

LOL, I'm no cat but you are a pussy.

Dude, I followed your threads back and compared them to your other account, identical grammatical nightmare and similar attempts to be offensive to the same few people.

Stop stalking me (us)

GRAMMAR NAZI ALERT!

Do we REALLY need another human spell check on this thread?

This isn't school - pull your head out of your Funk and Wagonals for 5 minutes, why don't ya?

dude eat my balls. where the f do you come from jumping in at the last minute?

my comment regarding his grammar was reinforcing my allegations that Felix has set up 4 Gothamist accounts just so he can support his own comments. in case you missed it, he is the clown of this blog, a jester if you will. so step off bitch.

Idiot, stop dragging me into your issue with stalker. Based on the above thread, I am not the only one who cares little for your juvenile comments.

on a side note, these homepage ad takovers on the side bars are really annoying.

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

There were at least two other people on board qualified to fly and land the plane. It's not like they had to try to drop another pilot in through a hole in the cockpit. Nothing to see here...move along.

Corpses routinely fly into and out of EWR.

But not in the cockpit!

Misplaced UAMs, pilots dropping, not a great week for CO.

Misplaced UAMs, pilots dropping, not a great week for CO.

Now batting for Pedro Barbon, Manny Mota...Mota...Mota...

Death is their co-pilot.

Where do they stow the body after this happens? Would that fit in the overhead compartment?

The "crew rest area" (not joking).

As long as there's no unaccompanied minors on board else they might have to go to Cleveland instead.

Continental Airlines has been in the media a lot lately.

http://www.fulldhamaal.com/current-affairs/air-france-flight-447-crashed-pictures-of-crash-taken-by-a-passenger-5958.htm

People don't have respect for the dead, these people used these false pictures from a lost episode and pass them off as flight 44 crashed pictures.

I'm sure Bloomberg will find a way to scapegoat more geese for this incident.

They had a relief pilot on board. Some airlines do this because some of the flights are in the air too long. My condolences to the pilot's family and congratulations to the the flight personnel for handling it in such a professional manner.

12,

i'm not sure reporting an unusual midair events qualifies it as being 'hyped'. the fact is, it's atypical and unfortunate for a pilot to die while flying a plane - regardless of the backup procedures that are in place - and that makes it newsworthy.

or are you just being a contrarian dick?

"or are you just being a contrarian dick?"

I think anything that happens on an airline holds an out sized, and odd fascination for people; being a dick I leave to you.

hey douche bag, not only is it clear that you are new to this 'Internets' thing, but the REPLY button is there so you don't have to write numbers referring to people while you troll.

valeriob, your mother is a douchebag

thanks for the education.... because, you know, i really give a shit about how to format replies on a messageboard.

valeriob is so juvenile, dumb and thoughtless

if you want to start shit don't ride on the coattails of someone elses' gripe.

Oh, and why 'stalkingagain'? Why not Felixthecat3?

Way to be clever and have a third Gothamist username.

someone's a bit bound up this afternoon, ay?

and virgilstarkwell is getting laarrrrger

"Two first officers were operating the plane, 'which they are perfectly qualified to do,' said Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration at John F. Kennedy International Airport."

So why is this being hyped? Emergency Landing? Nonsense, I'm sure they'll be (are) dozens of crews waiting to shoot the landing.

which country signs the death certificate?

8,

you too.

congratulations. you're part of an elite group of poor-man howard sterns'

While we're on the subject of personal gripes, there's no apostrophe with plurals, before or after the S.

YOU FRREAKIN JACKASS!!!!

OOh, sale at Penny's!

GRAMMAR NAZI ALERT!

Thanks for the spell check, English teacher!

3, 5, 7:

you're all very clever. bravo.

happy now?

losers.

one of the major points of the internet is that you can be so far removed from emotional & real situations so as you can make movie references if they so apply. And this sure did apply. you need to be manually inflated by Julie Hagerty.

Who's more of a loser: The people who have tried to add something to the conversation by leaving what they consider to be witty comments, or the asshat that added nothing, instead calling the others losers?

Given virgil's comment history of calling commenters losers, douchebags, and dicks, is it any surprise?

Why so curmudgeonly virgil? Was the father you never met a pilot?

I actually feel sorry for him. People who never develop a sense of humor die sad and alone.

just a personal gripe against people who anonymously thrive on snark and poor attempts at humor at the expense of others.

also sir, i'm not anonymous

the former, obviously.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

i hate to say this but nobody else did,

he had the fish!

omg I'm dying over here...

don't call me shirley!

It's not an emergency landing because the flight had been scheduled to land at Newark all along.

Now that's what I call dead air!

That pilot is flying dead head.

Did they alert everyone on the plane about this? I think I'd rather not know...

I think I'd rather not know that my pilot died.

Thanks for not mentioning sully.

Hope they land alright.