Blimey Paul.

Idiot’s text while doing all sorts of things.

I've seen Drivers Text, Cyclists, Skateboarders & I've even seen someone Text on a Horse once. (But then again the Girl did look like she had more beauty than brains & she weren't very pretty. )

I've even heard stories of Motorcyclists Texting while riding. I didn't even know that was humanly possible.

Now bearing in mind, the gear handle is on the co-pilots side, he could have reached out and lowered the gear himself, then used some choice language to get the captains attention, landed, "discussed" the situation in the privacy of the cockpit and gone home. Instead, the airline is getting lots of negative press, that could ultimately effect his own job security. In the meanwhile a captain that had forgotten to turn of his phone, is being bombarded with text messages probably about, welcome to country X, how much he can surf on his phone and at what cost along with the one from his wife asking if he can call her. His phone would have been making a hell of a racket and would have been even more distracting has it been ignored in the event of an emergency at this stage of the flight. The press have him texting when his phone records show he was turning it off. A major shot in the foot for all concerned, the airline, the captain and the co-pilot. I get the feeling that the co-pilot had more against this captain than the story tells. Either that or he is one of these people born with a stick up is a$$. This whole situation could have been resolved in other ways. Publicly was not one of them.

Matt

Fozzer wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 7:42am:

I'm sorry, what were you saying?  I just got a text from my bff and lost concentration...