Civilian Tries To Fly Plane

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From
CityNews: Civilian Tries To Fly Plane Following Bizarre Security Breach At Pearson Airport

A bizarre incident at Toronto's Pearson International Airport led to a 20-year-old man being tied up on an Air Canada flight.


Twenty-year-old Jonathan Simpson of Toronto was due to appear in Brampton court Saturday following a security breath in which he allegedly bolted past guards and into the coughpit of an Air Canada Jazz jet.


Witnesses say Simpson sat in the pilot's seat and told the co-pilot he wanted to fly the plane, which was about to depart for Charlottetown, P.E.I.


At the time the captain was outside doing a pre-flight walkthrough, leaving the unenviable task of subduing the man to Andy Montague, an Air Canada
Jazz manager who was a passenger on the plane. Montague claims he was able to talk Simpson out of the coughpit and tie him up until police arrived.

Police say no drugs were involved, and there's been nothing to suggest he was armed. Simpson faces charges of assault, threatening, and mischief.

 

[simongr]

What a country - charged for mischief ...ay

 

[NYCguy]

That boy needs to see a Psychiatrist!

 

[NM]

That boy needs to see a Psychiatrist!

I am sure he will be seeing at least one them ... and a few other people from related professions in the near future.

 

[trooper]

I know it's pedantic of me... but wouldn't that headline really only work if it was a military aircraft?

Sure.. he was a civilian... but then so was everyone else involved.... I suppose it was just a 'punchier" word than "non-pilot"!!:mrgreen:

 

[dot]

I know it's pedantic of me... but wouldn't that headline really only work if it was a military aircraft?

I think you mean 'semantic' (since it refers to language rather than process), or is that being overly semantic of me?

 

[NM]

I know it's pedantic of me... but wouldn't that headline really only work if it was a military aircraft?

Sure.. he was a civilian... but then so was everyone else involved.... I suppose it was just a 'punchier" word than "non-pilot"!!:mrgreen:

Perhaps "Passenger" would have been a more meaningful word to have used?

 

[simongr]

I thought it was a follow up to the recent Mythbusters where Jamie was talked down by an ATC staffer - whilst flying a simulator that is

 

[NM]

I thought it was a follow up to the recent Mythbusters where Jamie was talked down by an ATC staffer - whilst flying a simulator that is

I have a work colleague who scored the chance to do that in a Concorde simulator at LHR. A very interesting experience he tells me.

 

[SFSC]

I know it's pedantic of me... but wouldn't that headline really only work if it was a military aircraft?

Sure.. he was a civilian... but then so was everyone else involved.... I suppose it was just a 'punchier" word than "non-pilot"!!:mrgreen:

Probably have to blame the journalists. I often wonder if we are under martial law when I see "police" and "civilians" referred to separately in the same paragraph in a newspaper

 

[JohnK]

It makes you wonder what goes through a persons mind when they pull these type of stunts. Did he at least know how to fly the aircraft?