A mechanic for American Airlines was arrested Thursday and accused of trying to sabotage a commercial airliner shortly before it was set to take off from Miami International Airport for the Bahamas with 150 people on board. (www.cnn.com) さらに...
BS. Attempted manslaughter. Send a message that this won't be tolerated. He knew what he was doing was wrong. Doesn't matter that he didn't intend on hurting anyone. If he did, then it would be murder. Scum.
I have a feeling that we would not go the full "slaughter" distance, hence we ourselves would be locked away..no a good "attempt" would suffice, make him realize what he did and remember for rest of his existence...perhaps, after that, some may accidentally leave open salt shakers lying about.
Actually the fact he didn’t want to hurt anyone is extremely important and the criminal justice system doesn’t exist for revenge purposes, the punishment is supposed to be proportional to the crime - he didn’t want to hurt anyone and in fact didn’t.
His actions spoke louder than words. If you do not intend to harm, you do not "mess around" with ANYTHING to do with aircraft flight. The criminal justice system will see that, hopefully, and judge accordingly. Attempted murder still prevails in my mind! If he wished no one harm, he could have gone about other avenues, to get his plight out there.
If he didn't want to hurt anyone, he wouldn't have tried to sabotage an aircraft. His intentions were clear whether he intended the aircraft to crash or merely experience a malfunction, lives were in the balance and he was responsible (or in this case irresponsible).
Yes, the fact that he claims he didn't want to hurt anyone is a factor, but it is heavily outweighed by the potential severe harm his actions could have caused.
And revenge would be a factor if some of the pilots and frequent fliers in this forum (who might take his actions as a personal threat) got ahold of this mechanic and beat him to death. So yes, let's keep him safely locked up and subject him to the full weight of the criminal justice system, which is quite capable of differentiating vindictive revenge from the protection of society (you and me) from the potential harm of this man's actions.
His claims are not a factor at all, more like a total line of BS...when you are a mechanic, you know what parts can and do what..to mess with ANYTHING on an aircraft that will jeopardize the safety of the craft is inexcuseable..and no beating to death, just a good "horsewhipping" before tossing him into a nice 5X7 cell.
Years back one of the very first things we were told when starting our A&E training was you as a mechanic if you fail to do your work proplerly will be held responsible for your actions and prosecuted it was somewhere stated back then in the regs. Kind of says it all I carried that thought when I moved to being a heavy duty mechanic.
If you kill a person while driving drunk, you did not mean to do it at all, you had no intentions at all (did not sabotage anything), but you still get charged with vehicular manslaughter! He had intentions because HE PURPOSELY sabotaged the aircraft. So BS on his "oh I meant no harm" crap!!
Whether he wanted to cause harm or not this is still a dangerous individual who needs to learn that actions (positive or negative) have far-reaching consequences.
this man is ignorant and selfish,pure and smple..you do not do anything to the workings ,mechanical or otherwise, of an aircraft,under the idea you want overtime,or you are helping your unions cause..that tactic not only damages any issues going forward to settle a contract dispute (and i believe from what I have read, the mechanics union was already under investigation for slowdowns and the like),but it shows true criminal intent..that man was playing with the lives of 150 people..his name of course,immediately calls to mind a terrorist affiliation,but that is because since 9/11 most people have been programmed to think or feel that way..the article does not state anything other than he wanted more overtime..thank goodness his actions did not cause a serious accident..he most definitely will be fired,but he will now be subjected to federal prosecution..
Lt's hear it for the design system that looked for these types of problems, the light that lite up perfectly, the pilots that immediately returned to the ramp, and the other mechanics that immediately found the problem, identified it as sabotage, and reported it. People working together can stop a lot of bad things from happening.
That’s not a sabotage but a massive murder attempt. Anyone knows that any apparently simple reason in aviation could lead to catastrophic failure resulting in dead passengers and crew.
While I agree the offender should be appropriately punished, this situation does show that a properly designed aircraft won't leave the ground with issues that endanger the flight. The safety features in this case worked the way they were supposed to.
If this guy truly wanted to cause this aircraft to crash he could of picked another system on the aircraft to damage. The circuit he decided to use had built in redundancies that allowed the pilots to abort and return to the gate. Let's not be to quick to condemn. I wonder if his name would of been Bill Jones if we would of jumped to conclusions? My point is let the investigation run it's course and see what we find out. Cheers
It doesn’t matter if the intent was to cause the aircraft to crash or not. The accusation and charge should be an intent to disable a critical aircraft system/component and potentially the falsification of aircraft maintenance records.
So your assuming he was not born in the US or otherwise has not completed the naturalization process simply by his name. I can see how easy the assumption can be made but let’s get real here. He needs full prosecution and jail time but don’t jump to conclusions. My apologies in advance if I missed anything on this article that stated he was not a legal US citizen.
crazy, attempted man slaughter is thin. How about premeditated attempted murder? He needs to be fully punished to the max extent of the law. Bravo Zulu to the flight crew noticing an issue, and the ground crew discovering the problem. Its really terrorism that failed, thank God.
He must have known that the ADM would generate an error, and the correct procedure would be to abort the take off. He is an avionics technician, after all. This is one of the few things he could do that would not show up on pre flight checks. I hope the incident is fully investigated, including checking to see whether he has anything on his computer or email, but just because he has a foreign name doesn't automatically mean he is a terrorist.
This isn't "attempted" sabotage, it was ACTUAL sabotage. The only thing that was "attempted" was the murder of the passengers and crew on board. And that is what he should be charged with - 150 times. I don't care if he says his intentions were different, he actually sabotaged an airliner in a manner that could have reasonably led to the deaths of everyone on board, as well as some on the ground, had the plane either become airborne with faulty data or had an accident during the aborted takeoff. Prison for life.
Maybe they are overworked or I do not fully appreciate the realities of flying passenger jets, but isn't the 'walkround' meant to be to identify things like loose pitots or blocked holes in tubes? I know its a big plane buit I see crew members looking them over before a flight.
Most large jets this would not be easy to notice. We don’t know for sure where the loose connection was. My guess would be that the piece of foam was sneered into the pitot tube and that would never be noticed on a walk around from 5,10,15 feet below looking up.
It was actually in the EE Bay and it the obstruction was in the line feeding into the ADM from what I understand. Never would have been noticed on a walk around
Wow. At first i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I thought maybe he had intentionally left a bag behind or something because he was fed up with his job and the media was blowing it out of proportion. But what he did is pretty much the worst thing he could have possibly done. Lock this guy up for life. What a shame about his name, it will just reinforce a stereotype.