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So now you're a drone fan boy? Once again, say quals.

The second pilot is in pretty bad shape and definitely not out of the woods yet. Thoughts and prayers for all involved.

You probably know already as it's been 2 months since your post, but yep, just made a deposit yesterday.

Agree about the suck part and am definitely they're both safe. But why do you hope it wasn't pilot error vs a maintenance problem (for example)? Don't get me wrong, the witch hunt that can occur after a mishap can be hell for the aircrew, especially if it was pilot/aircrew error. But humans are very fallible, unfortunately, and I'd feel better knowing that a couple of well trained pilots possibly made a mistake, etc vs having severe maintenance problems with our aircraft, which would lead to the question of are there more problems with our other aircraft? Are they safe to operate? Sometimes us aircrew guys lose sight of the bigger picture when mishaps occur, which makes sense because it's easy for us envision it happening to us. I guess I'd be more concerned if we had problems with our aircraft vs accepting the fact that as humans, who perform a very challenging job in a very dynamic environment, we can make mistakes/have momentary lapses in judgement. Fortunately we'll have the SIB to tell us what happened and what we can do prevent similar future mishaps. Beers to to the life support/mx folks who made sure their seats/life support equipment were good to go.

Old, but still relevant.

The one with the cheapest fare headed where I need to go. I'm loyal only to my wallet. (Sort of)

I still want a permanent indoor GCS on the top floor of One World Trade Center in NYC tasked with smoking bad guys 24/7. NYC is already the city that never sleeps, let's make sure terrorists don't ever get to sleep either.