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The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot

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This is Thomas Salme, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot license. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for thirteen years without any incidents. (gizmodo.com) Más...

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VICBRET1S
Victor Bretones 0
holy s*(&^ i would be suing of the airline gave me a pilot with no experience
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dbaker
dbaker 0
According to the comments on the linked site, the guy held a commercial pilot ticket.
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CaseyGa1991
Casey Strickland 0
Awsome story but true :) I fly flight simulator for 9 years now :)
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CaseyGa1991
Casey Strickland 0
Awsome story but true :) I fly flight simulator for 9 years now :)
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kwoody
Keith Woody 0
Most FOs I know think the old Captain is stupid and the Captains think the FOs know nothing.
They are probably both right in this case.
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trawler26
P.J. Tiernan 0
You just never know
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PA28140Aviator
Joe Guercio 0
I'm amazed that no one noticed until just a few months ago. People are sure to look at documents a little closer now!
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gadget1
Rick Gull 0
Headline should read: "Pilot With Fake License". He obviously was a pilot, his skills were real, just the piece of paper was fake. I know lots of people with pilot's licenses that aren't pilots. I guess you could say that they are the "fake pilots".
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kristian180
krasi valkov 0
should give him a license that is not cool to penalize
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kristian180
krasi valkov 0
should give him a license this cool
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kristian180
krasi valkov 0
yes yes
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dodger4
dodger4 0
It shows you just how valuable the paper licence is...not worth a pinch of coon shit.
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nctrooper10722001
Thomas Moore 0
I was driving race cars and dirt bikes @ 8 yrs old.. Nobody bitched at me for not having a license..Common sense far ourweighs a piece of paper.. besides, lets save some trees instead of wasteing them on some legal bull **it
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rigadimd
Zigrida Dzenis 0
Hmmmmm, interesting comments that reflect our careless attitudes in our present society.
I wonder if we would be so glib if an incident had occured. I guess that is what keeps our lawyers happy.
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rigadimd
Zigrida Dzenis 0
Hmmmmm, interesting comments that reflect our careless attitudes in our present society.
I wonder if we would be so glib if an incident had occured. I guess that is what keeps our lawyers happy.
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