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I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? It'd be interesting to know the internal culture with regards to it.

Tuxer 9y ago
They did, this was a volunteer crew. Most of the passengers on the return flight weren't passengers in the normal sense of the word, but non-reqs, delta and other airline employees that were working in that airport and wanted to get out of dodge.
- losteverything 9y ago
  Who was on the arrival flight?
  - imatworkyo 9y ago
    those with the real balls of steel
    - explorigin 9y ago
      It'd be really nice if we could leave the reddit vernacular over there.
  - 21 9y ago
    Mostly officials and emergency personal, according to other reports.
qume 9y ago
The captain makes the same call on every flight. The plane and passangers are her responsibility regardless of the situation. Edit - also the call is made continuously. They can back out any time.
- minz 9y ago
  Why do you put "her responsibility", instead of "his responsibility", as captain's grammatical gender is masculine?
  - grzm 9y ago
    English doesn't generally have gendered nouns, and the few it has are generally going out of use. I'm not aware of captain as being gendered in English.
    - minz 9y ago
      How do you choose between his or her in this case?
      - grzm 9y ago
        This is more involved than I care to get into here. Here's a Wikipedia article which discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun Why create an account to make your initial comment? It doesn't seem very substantial or on-topic. The two reasons I can think of aren't very charitable, which is why I'm asking, assuming that it's neither of those.
        schrodinger 9y ago
        My charitable explanation is that it's a non native speaker of English genuinely asking the question to learn.
      - aaron695 9y ago
        You don't, unless it's to create off topic arguments/trolling. To answer your question if you know the sex, you say the sex. If not you use sexless pronouns like "their" and "they" even if they are not 'proper' by old strict standards, basically they are, because language evolves.
    - andrewflnr 9y ago
phkahler 9y ago
>> I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? They may or may not have volunteered for the flight, but they do get the final decision to go in or turn back once the airline OKs it.

They did, this was a volunteer crew. Most of the passengers on the return flight weren't passengers in the normal sense of the word, but non-reqs, delta and other airline employees that were working in that airport and wanted to get out of dodge.

losteverything 9y ago
Who was on the arrival flight?
- imatworkyo 9y ago
  those with the real balls of steel
  - explorigin 9y ago
    It'd be really nice if we could leave the reddit vernacular over there.
- 21 9y ago
  Mostly officials and emergency personal, according to other reports.

qume 9y ago

The captain makes the same call on every flight. The plane and passangers are her responsibility regardless of the situation. Edit - also the call is made continuously. They can back out any time.

minz 9y ago
Why do you put "her responsibility", instead of "his responsibility", as captain's grammatical gender is masculine?
- grzm 9y ago
  English doesn't generally have gendered nouns, and the few it has are generally going out of use. I'm not aware of captain as being gendered in English.
  - minz 9y ago
    How do you choose between his or her in this case?
    - grzm 9y ago
      This is more involved than I care to get into here. Here's a Wikipedia article which discusses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun Why create an account to make your initial comment? It doesn't seem very substantial or on-topic. The two reasons I can think of aren't very charitable, which is why I'm asking, assuming that it's neither of those.
      - schrodinger 9y ago
        My charitable explanation is that it's a non native speaker of English genuinely asking the question to learn.
    - aaron695 9y ago
      You don't, unless it's to create off topic arguments/trolling. To answer your question if you know the sex, you say the sex. If not you use sexless pronouns like "their" and "they" even if they are not 'proper' by old strict standards, basically they are, because language evolves.
  - andrewflnr 9y ago

phkahler 9y ago

>> I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? They may or may not have volunteered for the flight, but they do get the final decision to go in or turn back once the airline OKs it.