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**DFW** · (This post was last modified: 04-13-2011 01:59 PM by DFW.)

You can even hear the radio transmission between the guys working on the runway after Inhofe landed right on top of them even though the runway was clearly marked as closed. As usual, he did the Republican thing: he made up some excuse so as not to be led away in handcuffs and lose his pilot's license permanently. If he were not a Republican, and the airfield not in Texas, he would be in jail already.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/13/fa...ed-runway/

**jaxx** · 04-13-2011, 02:00 PM

They should have jerked his license. And no way let him train anybody ever again.

**Born_A_Truman** · 04-15-2011, 11:30 AM

IOKIYAR

**TheNewMe** · 04-15-2011, 11:55 AM

I'm trying to figure that out Grin

**Cha** · 04-15-2011, 03:24 PM

(04-15-2011 11:55 AM)TheNewMe Wrote: I'm trying to figure that out

It's Ok If you are republicon. That's what they say. I say such arrogant assholes have no business in government or flying a plane.

**TheNewMe** · 04-15-2011, 07:11 PM

(04-15-2011 03:24 PM)Cha Wrote:
(04-15-2011 11:55 AM)TheNewMe Wrote: I'm trying to figure that out
It's Ok If you are republicon. That's what they say. I say such arrogant assholes have no business in government or flying a plane.

Thanks for filling me in. Wave

**Cha** · 04-15-2011, 03:18 PM

That news should have been blaring from the headlines at the time.

So, not only is Inhofe a dangerous asshole..he's a sneaky one who only had to take remedial flight training.

**laurcunningham** · 04-15-2011, 03:39 PM

Yay, Oklahoma. It's fun to live here... woo...

Cry

**Treestar** · 04-16-2011, 01:33 PM

Does he show any remorse? A mistake is one thing. Or was he being egotistical? You know, I'm too powerful to have to play by the rules.

**RoyGBiv** · 04-16-2011, 01:47 PM

(04-16-2011 01:33 PM)Treestar Wrote: Does he show any remorse? A mistake is one thing. Or was he being egotistical? You know, I'm too powerful to have to play by the rules.

Surely, you jest.

Inhofe was pissed and being a bastard. Here's a follow-up to this story from James Fallows:

Quote:I mentioned yesterday that, thanks to The Smoking Gun's FOIA request, the FAA records of Sen. James Inhofe's unauthorized landing in Texas last October have been released. They show him landing on a closed runway full of men doing repair work; "sky-hopping" over the work crew and machinery and then landing behind them; provoking an airport manager to say, "I've got over 50 years flying, three tours of Vietnam, and I can assure you I have never seen such a reckless disregard for human life in my life"; and then being belligerent when confronted about the situation.

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I've written to a number of friends who work in or with the FAA [about whether Inhofe got off easy]. They've all said "it depends." The most exhaustive and, finally, most illuminating reply comes from a very experienced and well-known pilot, flight instructor, and aviation expert who, because of his position and the delicacy of the topic, asks that he not be named. After the jump, I quote his reply in exhaustive and very nit-picking detail. Here's the Cliff's Notes version of what he's talking about:

The FAA's choice, after a "pilot deviation" of this sort, is to impose a penalty (an "enforcement action") -- or instead to recommend the pilot only for counseling and "Remedial Training," or RT. Penalties affect flying status, make it harder and costlier to get insurance, can stay on your "permanent record," etc. RT and counseling don't have those effects.

Follow the link to get to the substance of the reply

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...ed/237402/