OT JetBlue flight attendant allegedly fled his plane via emergency chute -- beer in hand

Does anyone know what laws or regulations there are that control the flight crew's leaving an airplane? For instance, a sailor cannot leave the ship until permission is given by the captain. Is this also true for flight crews?

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Something not mentioned yet, is employee "burnout". Years ago we had class sessions on how to avoid it. Burnout starts to come around in

SWMBO says she now understands what "cabin fever" is after living up "nawth" in the harsh winters.

The Code of Federal Regulations may apply (lawyer speak for what Congress meant).

Some agency policies (Post Orders) say you cannot abandon your post.

I lived in the North until two years ago. One of the nicest things about living in the South now isn't so much the warmer Winters, rather being able to see the sun once in a while.

One of my grownup girlfriends was having a problem with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) when she lived in Spokane, WA. She got one of those full spectrum lights to spend time under when she was reading or knitting and it seemed to help. Now she's back in Alabamastan and breathing a sigh of relief for many reasons.

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F*ck that. When it's time to go, it's time to go.

It didn't make me SAD for my taxes to drop by more than half (property tax dropped by 75%), either. ;-)

You must have been in New Jersey. I have Yankee cousins there and in New York and Long Island.

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Vermont (and NY before that)

Those Damn Yankees come down here to Alabamastan and we can't get them to go home. That's why we've been actively promoting all of those terrible stereotypes with the banjo music, toothless terrorists, lynchings and racial strife to scare them off. It doesn't work, when they get here and discover that everything they thought they knew about the Southeast was a bucket of Hollywood hogwash, they won't go away. We're being invaded by the North again. 8-)

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I bet you wouldn't like it if I told you that I was born and raised in Obamastan. ;-) I now live about 100mi down the road from you. I hope I didn't spoil your weekend.

Are you down around Monkey Town where Goat Hill is? On some maps, it's Montgomery. 8-)

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I could live with the Snow Birds for a short duration. They would go home, eventually. Mostly I got ticked off when they stopped in the road -- acting as if lost.

Those Damn Yankees, well the stay in the south and form HOA's.

No, down US280; Auburn area.

I remember my maternal great aunt and uncle visiting us on the mountain in NE Alabamastan back in the 1960's from New Jersey. They were freaked out by the speed of the vehicles on our uncrowded interstate highways. They were hysterically funny, I think it was the culture shock.

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OH MY GOD! An Auburn fan?! 8-)

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Who me? I don't even like the SEC. ;-)

They were freaked by the uncrowded highways, not the speed. Have you ever driven on the Jersey Pike? 90MPH bumper-to-bumper, and 2" from a Jersey barrier.

I have driven that route. I have In Laws and Out Laws in Jersey. They just tell me what exit to get off on. After that it would be, go past the third windmill on the left.