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Cathay Pacific pilot buzzes unemployment line

Posted on February 25, 2008 5:05 PM
Massive stones on Ian Wilkinson, the now former pilot for Cathay Pacific. He decided to give the passengers on the maiden flight of a Boeing 777-300 a little something to remember the historic day by. Namely, soiled trousers...
Hurtling through the air at 322mph, the pilot took the 365-seater jet down to 28ft above the ground for several seconds before pulling up.

Passengers, including Cathay Pacific's chairman Chris Pratt, were said to be "stunned into silence" while onlookers cheered the astonishing fly-by. The flight had left Seattle, the home of Boeing, for Hong Kong, where Cathay Pacific is based.
The whole life flashing before your eyes thing must not have been on the menu for the flight. Cathay Pacific will have us believe he wasn't fired for the improvisational ground-skimming maneuver, but for not asking permission first. Nothing to do with making the big boss spill his champagne, sure.
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