Anti-Sullenberger
World News • February 2009 • Views: 437
Moscow Times:
When passengers on Aeroflot Flight 315 heard the pilot make his preflight announcement, they knew something was amiss. The pilot’s voice was garbled, barely intelligible — and that was in his native Russian. When he switched to English, it was impossible to understand him at all.
“The first thought that occurred to me was, ‘This guy is drunk,’” said Khatuna Kobiashvili, a passenger on the Moscow-New York flight. “His speech was so slurred it was hard to tell what language he was speaking.” …