turboman:

My brother, their business is booming, Kirikiri is fully booked for now o! EFCC have booked for 14 out of the remaining 15 bed spaces to lodge some of their clients after the May29 handover. the remaining one has been reserved specially for you. Good luck   

You are killing me man. Only on NL do I come across such talent.

the pilot shud b frm middle east

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Re: After Murdering Wife,pilot Considered Crashing A Lagos-bound British Airways Jet In A Suicide Bi
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The life of airline captains is not as glamorous as many would imagine. It often takes many long impoverished years for them to completely refund the loans they needed to complete aviation school, and when they first start out as regional airline pilots, they make as little as $14K a year. Hell, Mcdonalds pays as much as that to its burger flippers, which explains why some laid-off pilots wind up settling for menial employment as truck drivers or store greeters in Wallmart.

Furthermore, seniority is completely lost when a pilot is furloughed, or voluntarily leaves one airline to join another. That means a left-seat 747 captain who loses his high-paying job could wind up as a right-seat first-officer in a freight hauler like Fed-ex, earning peanuts, working long hours in the cockpit of an ageing 727 out in far-flung locations, and losing all the prestige of that previous captain spot that took him literally decades to attain before that dreaded furlough.

Clearly this BA 747 captain was belittled and humiliated by his independently wealthy wife and her use of expensive attorneys in their marital battle, which explains his ultimate consideration of murder and suicide as an end to his troubled existence. For every underpaid pilot who does tip over into insanity, there are many more who are near breaking point, due to the abiding curses of being underpaid, in troubled marriages, and on very difficult work schedules.

In my humble opinion, airline pilots deserve salaries and job promotion opportunities comparable to that of medical doctors, given that both categories of employment routinely entrust human lives to a highly trained professional who must not be distracted by money woes or fears of job security. That being said, the suicidal captain who contemplated crashing his 747 into a Lagos suburb must now face the full weight of criminal justice.

The life of a pilot in Uk may not be glamorous but it goes with pride and dignity. Pilots' careers are influenced by their countries of practice but we shall focus on the country where this crime was committed. As compared to the rest of the world, pilots in the Uk are priviledged to have a well monitored and accountable system, typical of most things the British do. They are relatively better paid and if they must refund any loans taken to facilitate their primary training, conditions for such repayment are definitely not as draconian as we are being led to believe. Even as regional pilots, what they earn is in multiples of the quoted $14k a year. A British Airways pilot, especially one rated on the B 747 and in the capacity of a Captain is one of the best paid pilots in the world, please google for confirmation. This suicidal Captain has obviously lost his mind, but the cause has no significance to his job as a pilot otherwise assylums all over the world will have a high representation of pilots due numerous probable reasons ("abiding curses"as given by the honourable Jakumo.

^Thank you.

Jakumo where did you see a pilot acting as a store greeter in walmart.

@tpia

he works there

Buffoon! watz our biz wit ur failed marriage dat u wld contemplate wasting innocent Nigerian lives? Oya go & hug a transformer now & end ur miserable life

sley4life:

the pilot shud b frm middle east

Not neccesarily;he appears to hail from England

Na wa o

Thank God he changed his mind. Thats a national tragedy averted.Is obvious from his statement that he has been planning the crime two years before. it is a premeditated murder so he is culpable.

the passengers in d plane should be doing thanksgiving.

He must have been possesed by a Bin-Ladenish spirit.

The guy is a liar. Does he even believe that devil exist? No! How could he find it difficult to remember how he hammered his wife 14 times? But to recall that moment was very difficult for him because he knew that that moment was too horrible to recount.

Thank God for God.

maasoap:

The guy is a liar. Does he even believe that devil exist? No! How could he find it difficult to remember how he hammered his wife 14 times? But to recall that moment was very difficult for him because he knew that that moment was too horrible to recount.

he is the devil re incarnated.

What a disaster it would have been, had he carried out that plan, I dont really get how some people have twisted this to give the story a racial subtext, Whats up with all that insecurities?

This story is troubling, remembering that l traveled from Heathrow, around that time! Jesus Christ!!

Anyway, l am not concerned (now) that he chose to consider crashing the 747 coming to Nigeria but then, that was the flight he was "scheduled" to fly. If he was scheduled to fly to NewYork or Japan, l am sure he would have had the same thoughts about those flight.

Having said that, what bothers me is WHY this man, who spent all his life to train to the level of a Captain, has two children, suddenly became not only murderous but suicidal?

He said his marriage agreement  "stitched him up". That statement encompasses everything!
I know women in the West love the "Western" family laws and legal system as it gave them an unfair advantage over their husbands.
I know women in Nigeria feel they should also be entitled to such lop-sided laws, in Nigeria!

Thing is, "You cant eat your cake and have it". Everything in life has its own "Pros" and "Cons".

Almost on a daily basis,  You will read about a man murdering his wife (and children) and then committing suicide!
In ALL cases, the marriage is broken down and the woman Now decides to "teach him a lesson" by taking advantage of the lopsided laws!

Until the Western world decides to correct the "imbalances" in the marital/family laws, such senseless MURDERS would be the norm!

Laws which sought to destroy a man simply because he wants to get out of an abusive relationship; Laws which allow the woman to drive her husband out of the house using the Cops, take away the mans house and render him homeless simply because his wife does not want him anymore; Laws which make him work 24hours only for him to hand-over the money to his former wife, to enjoy with her new boyfriend; Laws which allow the woman to deprive the man, the company and love of children he pays child-support on; will only generate the "animal in the man".

I hope we all learn a lesson or two from such events.

(shakes head and waits for the first salvo from an enraged, nut-case woman )

Gosh! thank God he did not crash the plane! Enough Yoruba peeps would have been dead!

shotster50:

What a disaster it would have been, had he carried out that plan, I dont really get how some people have twisted this to give the story a racial subtext, Whats up with all that insecurities?

Really,theres nothing racial about ip.

Jakumo:

The life of airline captains is not as glamorous as many would imagine.   It often takes many long impoverished years for them to completely refund the loans they needed to complete aviation school, and when they first start out as regional airline pilots, they make as little as $14K a year.   Hell, Mcdonalds pays as much as that to its burger flippers, which explains why some laid-off pilots wind up settling for menial employment as truck drivers or store greeters in Wallmart.

Furthermore, seniority is completely lost when a pilot is furloughed, or voluntarily leaves one airline to join another.   That means a left-seat 747 captain who loses his high-paying job could wind up as a right-seat first-officer in a freight hauler like Fed-ex, earning peanuts, working long hours in the cockpit of an ageing 727 out in  far-flung locations, and losing all the prestige of that previous captain spot that took him literally decades to attain before that dreaded furlough.

Clearly this BA 747 captain was belittled and humiliated by his independently wealthy wife and her use of expensive attorneys in their marital battle, which explains his ultimate consideration of murder and suicide as an end to his troubled existence.  For every underpaid pilot who does tip over into insanity, there are many more who are near breaking point, due to the abiding curses of being underpaid, in troubled marriages, and on very difficult work schedules.

In my humble opinion, airline pilots deserve salaries and job promotion opportunities comparable to that of medical doctors, given that both categories of employment routinely entrust human lives to a highly trained professional who must not be distracted by money woes or fears of job security.   That being said, the suicidal captain who contemplated crashing his 747 into a Lagos suburb must now face the full weight of criminal justice.

I strongly agree with Jakumo; I would have been a victim had I continued in school. I went to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach Campus) with the hopes to get my license up to CFI and the transition to Regional but when I researched what regional airlines were paying and after that you spend a good amount of years to build up flight time to transition to national carriers; I called it off after a year and decided to go for a four year degree I know that won't pay me $11 an hr and if you're lucky you get up to 60hrs monthly, like I heard, i.e. if you're not on-call (forgotten the name they call them). Yes did I forget they are really indebted as much as $60,000 or more after getting your CFI, then type ratings, is another story entirely. Hey I have a good job, @ a young age and I'm seriously considering going to flight school but choose a different path; rather than regional or national carrier,  I go with private or charter service.

But a B747 captain, he has attained his height of success, what else does he wanna fly? A380 or the Beluga? That is no excuse to wanna crash an airplane with passengers, let him face the law period (gross attempted murder)

@engineerd

Gosh! thank God he did not crash the plane! Enough Yoruba peeps would have been dead!

Wetin, this racial slur no dey tire una?

Omg this world is full mess

Just imagine how a deranged brain functions. What is the sin of the innocent passengers he intended murdering?

What I would have like to know is: Does the airline allocate flight destinations to their pilots (and allocated him for Lagos flight) or did he pick which country/flight he would like to crash 

Thats really bad hmmmmm

eewule:

What I would have like to know is: Does the airline allocate flight destinations to their pilots (and allocated him for Lagos flight) or did he pick which country/flight he would like to crash 

No they have a ballot, The pilot selects a random ball (containing different flight destinations), whichever one you pick is the city you will fly to.

shotster50:

No they have a ballot, The pilot selects a random ball (containing different flight destinations), whichever one you pick is the city you will fly to.

really?

na God no allow am take dat decision to come & crash here,(or anywhere) where our emergency responce is zero, na blacks go plenty pass for that flight o, God still dey answer prayers.

Hehehe.
Naija Prayer Warriors 'prayed' the suicidal maniac off the roster

I guess we were lucky. This one went past us !

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