Drunk passengers likely caused deadly plane crash off Vancouver Island: report

According to the report, toxicology tests showed all three passengers were highly intoxicated and were so drunk that they likely didn't realize the seriousness of the situation in time to allow the pilot to regain control of the plane.

Yup........that's what it said.

I was going to make a racist remark till I remembered that there have been plenty of non-native drunks who have caused trouble on planes. Still, if these people were so drunk, they shouldn't have been allowed on the plane. And I bet the native band will come out with a statement that it's racist to mention that they were drunk.

Alcohol kills.

That's what I wonder about-the pilot's judgement.

I mean if a cab driver can legally refuse to drive someone who's drunk or abusive surely an airplane pilot has the same power-why didn't he say No?

That's what I wonder about-the pilot's judgement.

I mean if a cab driver can legally refuse to drive someone who's drunk or abusive surely an airplane pilot has the same power-why didn't he say No?

They were already turned away by a water taxi for being too drunk. If a boat won't take them, what's airline flying them for? Apparently the excuse what that they were still able to walk and argue about the price of the charter.

The fun part is that if the pilot had refused to take them because they were too pissed-up then they would have started screaming racism at him. I assume that Natives in the area probably made up a sizable portion of his typical customers so if they hit him up with the racism accusation then it would have done some significant damage to his business income if other Natives stopped using his services as a form of backlash. He probably also figured that the worst that would happen with some drunks would be that he'd have had to hose some puke off of the cabin floor. And I'm fairly certain that most pilots usually operate with bit of confidence that their passengers probably aren't going to go insane and attack them while they're flying.

No way this guy could have won with customers like that. His dying because of them was unfortunately the worst of all possible outcomes that were created the moment three useless drunken assholes entered into his life. Terribly sad of course but, with this being Canada and all, there's no way the ones who deserve all the blame in this are going to receive it. They just don't have the same rights as the rest of us, remember, they also have "special" rights just because of their ancestry and skin pigmentation.

Good point.

I'm not convinced by this report, myself. They reached this by process of elimination and there seems to be no proof.

Well, maybe you should write your own report.

Wow... where did that one come from.

You in a pissy mood, Andyt?
If so, don't take it out on others.

That was an opinion.
If you don't agree, no problem... but stay nice, if you can.

Wow... where did that one come from.

You in a pissy mood, Andyt?
If so, don't take it out on others.

That was an opinion.
If you don't agree, no problem... but stay nice, if you can.

Feeling thenthitive today?

The report is the best guess of what happened. You're not convinced, that's fine, but you have no evidence that anything else occurred.

And they have no evidence that's what happened.

We can go around this circle for awhile, but no, I'm done.

Nor did they claim to. Just gave their best guess because they eliminated every other possibility they could think of. So what does it mean you're not convinced? If you have no contrary evidence, then the best guess seems to be the one to go with, no?