__ Religious Indoctrination on American Airline flights

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"- DefaultUser"	2/8/2004 12:34:56 PM
Pilot's crazy rant By MAKI BECKER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said yesterday. Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones, witnesses told CBS News. Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to "raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger, Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS. He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand raised is crazy," Nelligan said. "He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan said. Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger. Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre" and wondered whether his comments were a threat. CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available. American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate behavior. The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica, the spokesman said. "It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said. The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident. The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman said.



Al Klein	2/8/2004 9:50:23 PM
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:34:56 -0700, "- DefaultUser" <root@dev.nul> posted in alt.atheism: Pilot's crazy rant By MAKI BECKER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to "raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger, Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS. He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand raised is crazy," Nelligan said. "He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan said. Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger. I'm just surprised that some passenger didn't "relieve him of duty". We already know that religious nuts are capable of crashing planes they're in. -- "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment. " - Letter to M. Berkowitz, October 25, 1950; Einstein Archive 59-215 (random sig, produced by SigChanger) rukbat at optonline dot net



Phillip Brown	2/9/2004 11:23:46 AM
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:34:56 -0700, - DefaultUser wrote: Pilot's crazy rant By MAKI BECKER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said yesterday. Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones, witnesses told CBS News. Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to "raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger, Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS. He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand raised is crazy," Nelligan said. "He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan said. Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger. Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre" and wondered whether his comments were a threat. CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available. American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate behavior. The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica, the spokesman said. "It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said. The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident. The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman said. Why do they need pilots, anyway? After all, everyone knows is Jesus that keeps all those planes up in the air. Well, most of them. -- phillip brown



gene@pad39a.com (Gene Seibel)	2/8/2004 7:40:08 PM
What an interesting experiment. ;) -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. "- DefaultUser" <root@dev.nul> wrote in message news:<KbwVb.35$Z71.35041@news.uswest.net>... Pilot's crazy rant By MAKI BECKER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers aboard a Los Angeles-to-New York flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and then called those who weren't Christian "crazy," witnesses and an airline spokesman said yesterday. Fearing the pilot might have some sinister plans for the flight, many frantic passengers tried to reach their families on their cell phones, witnesses told CBS News. Shortly after takeoff on Friday, the pilot asked people aboard Flight 34 to "raise their hand if they were Christian," according to one passenger, Amanda Nelligan, of Los Angeles, who spoke to CBS. He then told the passengers that "everyone who doesn't have their hand raised is crazy," Nelligan said. "He continued to say, 'Well, you have a choice: You can make this trip worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie," Nelligan said. Flight attendants contacted ground control about the incident, assuring passengers that they didn't think they were in any real danger. Nelligan said she and other passengers thought the behavior was "bizarre" and wondered whether his comments were a threat. CBS identified the pilot, but confirmation was not immediately available. American Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said the incident was being investigated, and added that the company has guidelines about appropriate behavior. The pilot had apparently just returned from a missionary trip to Costa Rica, the spokesman said. "It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," Wagner said. The 8 a.m. flight arrived at JFK Airport about 4:20 p.m. without incident. The Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating, a spokeswoman said.

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