https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-crash-deliberate-panel-of-aviation-experts/Saw this on the news this morning. Figured it might interest some of us on here.
Quote from: Starbird on May 14, 2018, 02:07:49 PMhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-crash-deliberate-panel-of-aviation-experts/Saw this on the news this morning. Figured it might interest some of us on here.So far this report of a suicidal pilot is circumstantial and speculative. Whether additional support for the theory will surface that offers greater support remains to be seen.Links within the CBS website that report the recent court martial of Lt Coppock of the USS Fitzgerald are more interesting. The CBS report is certainly based on more factual evidence. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lt-jg-sarah-coppock-pleads-guilty-in-uss-fitzgerald-collision/. According to the linked Stars and Strips article in the CBS news report, Lt Coppock fully acknowledged her failure to fully perform her duties. She fully accepted of responsibility for the collision and for the resulting deaths of several sailors. This suggests she possesses strong moral fiber, conviction, and integrity. I hope she will overcome her failure, will help others to avoid making the same mistakes, and turn the memory of this needless loss of life into a lifelong commitment to dedicated service.
According to the linked Stars and Strips article in the CBS news report, Lt Coppock fully acknowledged her failure to fully perform her duties. She fully accepted of responsibility for the collision and for the resulting deaths of several sailors. This suggests she possesses strong moral fiber, conviction, and integrity. I hope she will overcome her failure, will help others to avoid making the same mistakes, and turn the memory of this needless loss of life into a lifelong commitment to dedicated service.
Or it was a plea deal to end the situation as quickly and cleanly as possible for all parties.It would be hard to imagine she would get anything better then a "dismissal", assuming there's no confinement involved.
Quote from: Eclipse on May 14, 2018, 04:22:14 PMOr it was a plea deal to end the situation as quickly and cleanly as possible for all parties.It would be hard to imagine she would get anything better then a "dismissal", assuming there's no confinement involved.Maybe.USN brass in the 7th Fleet basically received a slap on the wrist for years of conspiring with Fat Leonard to defraud the Navy, plus who knows what other damage was done if Secret naval operations were signaled to our good friends in the West Pacific. Could be she's just a lowling, while it was the CinC 7th Fleet implicated in the Fat Leonard problem. Regardless, if she's sincere the Navy could (and should) capitalize on her experience to address and create culture change exposed by the soft crimes of the 7th Fleet brass.
Lot of out of order facts here, and there is no comparison. She was directly responsible for the collision and deaths. Financial crimes, while reprehensible by those entrusted with our security, do not compare.
The thing with this situation, and I'm only going on publicly available information and conjecture, is that it seems as if no one was basically looking out the windows, or cared.One could surmise, especially based on there being two other officers being disciplined, that perhaps some activity or another was taking place that distracted them from their normal duties.Just bent metal might mean a career processing Tri-Care in the desert somewhere, but peopledied, which pretty much has to mean dismissal at a minimum.
Did they too receive Courts Martial review and punitive cuts in pay?