Passenger tells female airline captain: Bible says cockpit is ‘no place for a woman’

[Playinghardball]

A Canadian airline pilot said that she was shocked after receiving a recent note that cited the Bible as a reason flying airplanes were “no place for a woman.”

WestJet pilot Carey Steacy told CTV that crews were cleaning the aircraft after a flight from Calgary to Victoria on Sunday, and they found the note from a passenger named “David” written on a napkin.

“The cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman,” the note said. “A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’”

“PS I wish Westjet [sic] could tell me a fair lady is at the helm so I can book another flight,” he continued, observing that his views were “not PC.”

“It made me feel sad. It was just surprising,” Steacy recalled. “I can’t believe that there’s people that still think that way.”

In a post on Facebook, Steacy wrote that the passenger had been “welcome to deplane when you heard I was a ‘fair lady.’ You have that right. Funny, we all, us humans, have the same rights in this great free country of ours. ”

The WestJet passenger’s note also pointed to a Bible verse, Proverbs 31, which many Christians believe defines the “perfect” woman as a wife who works in the home.

More and see the video here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/passenger-tells-female-airline-captain-bible-says-cockpit-is-no-place-for-a-woman/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That passenger is an idiot.

[shenmue]

2. He should have locked himself in the toilet

[joeglow3]

3. This is news? Random idiot says something to someone?

Just go sit at a bar for a night. You are bound to hear someone say something stupid and....bam, apparently you have an article.

[FarCenter]

24. That is the internet -- people are shocked to read stuff you heard in bars all the time.

Self-publishing means that every bar fly gets to broadcast.

[get the red out]

4. If he can't stand the modern world

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He needs to stay off airplanes. He could us a cart with two asses, one pulling it and him in the back.

[Feral Child]

5. Speechless, am I....n/t

[malthaussen]

6. Simple solution: descend to 10,000 feet and show him the door. n/t

[joeybee12]

8. That's stupid...

What would you even need to descend?

[malthaussen]

15. Because you can't open the door until the pressure equalizes. n/t

[joeybee12]

16. Oh...

Too bad...would have liked to see "Dave" drop even farther!

[MuseRider]

19. This was

what I was going to say without the descending part so thanks for the information about pressure

I wonder how well MR Man is going to fare trying to get the airlines to tell him the sex of the pilot? Perhaps he is now grounded since he will likely never know and just can't risk being flown in the air by a mere woman. Poor David, never to fly again.

[joeybee12]

7. Well, when you're taking advice from a book written by semi-literate shepherds...

You reach a whole new level of stupid.

[Rex]

9. The sad thing is, he didn't know what proverbs 31 says.

It was a good guess on his part, but there is NOTHING about women flying airplanes in ANY of the holy books.

[cali]

10. neanderthal moron wingnut fuckstick

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Two words for ya, Dave ol' buddy:

Night Witches.

Look it up...

[npk]

12. I believe this is in the 2nd chapter of genesis.

Right after Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins share their thoughts on peanut butter warding off cancer.

Oh wait wrong book of genesis.

[Hissyspit]

25. Ah, you got that joke from "American Dad!"

It was on an episode last night (well, except for the peanut butter part).

Stan: "That's from Genesis! Their first album, I think…"

[npk]

31. LOL. Great show. N/t

[RKP5637]

13. There are many bizarre people in the world, we just hear of them more often now. I think

that is a good thing, to be aware of what is out there. They are so creepy, creepy robots with faulty firmware.

[benld74]

14. Find the hotel where he stayed and find his rental movies watched, then tell his wife!

[Jasana]

17. What a dirtbag. nt

[nyquil_man]

18. Well, if the Lord wanted Dave flying in the air, He would have given him wings.

Or better yet, miracled his ass up there.

[sakabatou]

21. Well, he could've drunk Redbull...

[nyquil_man]

22. Touché. nt

[sakabatou]

20. *facepalm*

[Spirochete]

23. He's full of it

Queen Esther had a pilots license and flew for TWA on her off days.
Mary Magdalene was a chopper pilot...

[Lint Head]

26. The lady pilot should not give a good rats ass what some bigoted Bible Thumper thinks

about women.

[Skittles]

29. she must be very naive if it surprises her there are "still people like that out there"

I mean, come on, sexist assholes are everywhere

[tanyev]

27. If only the airport body scanning machines could be set to filter out asshats.

[phiddle]

28. By gum, that's why it's called a COCKpit

(Snark)

[DontTreadOnMe]

30. Which airline did Jesus prefer?

and was it coach or First Class?

[Blue Owl]

32. But what if God was her co-pilot?

n/t

[struggle4progress]

33. Many modern scholars consider the Epistle of David to be a late forgery but

at least one translation, of an ancient papyrus fragment found in the excavation of Thonis, suggests that this may have been a legitimate controversy in the fourth century CE

What can actually be read from the fragment is: ... thou knowest ... fly ... not ... the ...

But by careful scientific examination of the lacunae, some researchers have reconstructed the text as: if thou knowest not how to fly the airplane, thou shalt not criticize the pilot thereof

[hobbit709]

34. Funny how all these so-called Xian fundies keep going back to the OLD Testament.

[Enrique]

35. he might want to try Saudi Arabian Airlines n/t