Lidle crashes a plane, begs the question nn: Should we let people fly planes just because they're rich?
Is everybody qualified to fly a plane?
Does anybody care that a rich dude killed an innocent stranger and a flight instructor in what amounts to a sunday joy ride?
The guy didn't even attend college, as far as I can tell...
Re: Lidle crashes a plane, begs the question Spike: Ummmm, what does a college education have to do with flying a plane??
Re: Lidle crashes a plane, begs the question alonewith2: Last I heard, they couldn't prove who was flying the plane. It could have been Lidle or the flight instructor.
Re: Lidle crashes a plane, begs the question td7629: nn.. my dad something similar yesterday too.. I just think the whole thing is so tragic..
Re: Lidle crashes a plane, begs the question nn: Well... nothing inherently, but contextually... a lot. MOST (not all) intelligent people I know have college degrees.
My brother who is an aviator in the Navy tells me that raw intelligence and math ability have a lot to do with flying... It's not like we're born with wings, we're talking about a very complex phyiscal task that we've reduced to wrist movements and thinking ability.
What does being rich have to do with flying a plane? A lot, apparently.
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