Some very interesting comments floating around on PPrune.org under Australia, NewZealand and the Pacific Airlines and RPT rumours. Information coming from Pilots who flew with him and outburst in the Flight Deck.
He would have had a psych test during the interview process should he be a candidate.…which would indicate if he was compliant with regulations, communication with crew members, problem solving, decision making etc. etc. I have seen a number of Pilot’s not disclose mental illness/anxiety due to...
Your spot on they didn’t. I worked for the same airline as Lisa many years ago and started after she had left (they could not speak highly enough of this lady).
Low cost airlines will utilise Flight Attendants do a quick turnaround clean. Some crew would help me (albeit I was a solo F/A) so you need some sort of help. Flight Crew would generally go into the briefing room for their next flight to get weather etc. I have never seen any Pilot put the...
I thought he could have been half cut but his actions speak loudly. One would think after this terrible incident you would down a few drinks if not bottles but he still had the clarity to plan all the events thereafter.
In my flying days if we experienced an inflight emergency …procedures would kick in immediately….24 hours later you would be a dribbling mess. Goodness knows how somebody operates a commercial aircraft with 200 lives in the mix knowing you had incinerated 2 human beings.
When we were in court on the day he testified from memory the gun was not loaded and the magazine was sitting on the front passenger seat. Prosecution asked how would Russell know which one to load (big gun, big magazine) !!
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