SFOQQAA From United States, joined Aug 2007, 96 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 8452 times:
FARGO, N.D. — A 19-year-old flight attendant has been accused of setting a fire aboard a commercial airplane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D.
Eder Rojas was charged Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis. The case will be prosecuted in Fargo.
Officials say the Compass Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Saskatchewan landed safely in Fargo on May 7, after smoke begin to fill the back of the plane.
Court documents say Rojas, of Woodbury, Minn., told authorities he was upset at the airline for making him work that route.
ASFlyer From United States, joined May 2005, 497 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (5 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 8361 times:
Quoting BriGuyinHou (Reply 1): Please don't flame me for saying this, but the FA should be fired
Logic would dictate that, if he is being charged with federal charges for setting fires on an airplane that he was working on, he is probably fired. If not then I would agree with you.
Boston92 From Iraq, joined Aug 2006, 3242 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (5 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 8332 times:
Quoting BriGuyinHou (Reply 1): Please don't flame me for saying this, but the FA should be fired.
Haha.
"A truck carrying a load of avocados overturned today on the 101 freeway. CHiPs were on the scene in minutes. No truth to the rumor that the dip that caused the accident is a salsa dancer."
I love irony.
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?"
"A truck carrying a load of avocados overturned today on the 101 freeway. CHiPs were on the scene in minutes. No truth to the rumor that the dip that caused the accident is a salsa dancer."
I love irony.
I feel an Alanis Morrisette song coming on!
I've travelled the world and the seven seas. Everybody is looking for something.
Travatl From United States, joined Mar 2001, 2113 posts, RR: 9 Reply 9, posted (5 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 8170 times:
Not the first time, I'm afraid. An AirTran flight attendant was fired for making a bomb threat against the flight he was working. (It didn't take much to put two and two together). He was fired and arrested. A year later the same guy was flying for Comair, where he promptly started a fire on a flight enroute ATL-HSV. The aircraft made an emergency landing in Rome, GA, and investigators quickly realized the flight attendant was responsible (set newspaper on fire in the aft lav). Again arrested. Last I heard he was headed to the big house....
USFlyer MSP From United States, joined May 2000, 600 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 8060 times:
...no offense to reponsible 19 yo''s but this is why 19 yo's should not be FA's. Too immature! I would have hated to see this guy freak out in an actual emergency on an aircraft. You should be at least 21 to be an FA (just like drinking).
GALLEYSTEW From United States, joined Dec 2007, 42 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (5 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 7883 times:
HEY, bottom line is....you get what you pay for. I was 21 and college graduate with a degree in education. It is now 22 yrs later. I am not saying they should go back to a nursing degree, but I do think there needs to be some maturity , education, and life experience in order to become a flight attendant.
Phelpsie87 From United States, joined Apr 2006, 382 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (5 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 7860 times:
Quoting SFOQQAA (Thread starter): Court documents say Rojas, of Woodbury, Minn., told authorities he was upset at the airline for making him work that route.
Cry me a river....
This guy is an idiot! I am almost speechless thinking how incompetent he is. I saw the pics of the aircraft, not a whole lot of damage done.
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Threepoint From Canada, joined Oct 2005, 1162 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (5 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 7794 times:
Quoting USFlyer MSP (Reply 10): ...no offense to reponsible 19 yo''s but this is why 19 yo's should not be FA's. Too immature! I would have hated to see this guy freak out in an actual emergency on an aircraft. You should be at least 21 to be an FA (just like drinking).
I disagree, that's far too late for most young people. I think we fail to give due credit to the majority of teenagers and tend to disregard their maturity levels. Sadly, there are simpletons in every age bracket, but let's not broad-brush the young. We were all there once and I'll bet you and I didn't think we were too immature back then.
Here in Canada, an 18 year old can legally go to the bar in some provinces after legally and single-handedly landing a commercial airplane full of people.
Granted, he can't pack a firearm, but that's probably a good thing.
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PlateMan From United States, joined May 2007, 416 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (5 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 7785 times:
Already been fired according to ABC News.
Compass is a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines, based in Eagan, Minn. Rojas has been fired, said Northwest spokesman Rob Laughlin. Northwest did not say how long Rojas worked for the airline.
HAYWARD -- A Hayward man reported missing this week apparently skipped town in order to break up with a girl.
Eder Rojas, 21, of Hayward, spoke with Chicago police Friday morning, reported Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom. He had taken a bus there, possibly from Oregon, where he was last thought to have stopped after his girlfriend reported him missing Monday morning.
"The whole thing was apparently a hoax," said Lindblom. "He reported that he wanted to sever a relation with a girlfriend."
Rojas was last seen at 3 a.m. Monday leaving his girlfriend's Hayward home on Shepherd Avenue. She alerted police to his absence the same morning, said Lindblom. Based on suspicious circumstances in her report, the Hayward Police Department issued a missing persons alert.
Rojas' 2005 Toyota Tacoma was found in the parking lot of an Albertson's grocery store at 1300 Fairmont Drive in San Leandro at 9 a.m. Wednesday. He apparently called his girlfriend that same day to say that he was unharmed and was staying with friends in Oregon.
"We were pretty sure he was in Oregon based on some information we had gotten from people here. We were pretty sure he would be traveling somewhere east and, lo and behold, he turns up in Chicago," Lindblom said.
It is unclear, Lindblom said, whether the woman Rojas last saw in Hayward is the same one he was leaving.
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