Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson) Subject: Re: 737 Crash In Colorado Springs X-Submission-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 08:41:57 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Followup-To: sci.aeronautics.airliners Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: Date: 11 Dec 92 03:35:19 PST In article rbarnick@mitre.org (Barnick, R.) writes: UAL recently lost some kind of case from its female employees which charged gender discrimination. UAL either lost or agreed to settle out of court. UAL agreed to correct conditions which caused the suit. One correction was to get more females in the cockpit. The ill-fated 737 had a very junior female first officer. The pilot was male and also junior. Please remember, this is a story told me second hand. You're getting it third hand. But, if any truth about this crash is known, a sharing thought would be interesting. I suspect that many people - particularly people not familiar with aircraft operations - would believe that the problem was that UAL had been "forced" to put a "a very junior female first officer" on the flight. (We must assume that the F/O was had sufficient qualifications, even if she was quite new - every pilot is very junior in the beginning of their careers). That was not the problem at all - it was UALs decision to put a junior captain on the flight together with a very junior first officer. -- Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: lhe@sics.se Swedish Institute of Computer Science Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09 Box 1263 Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09 S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN Fax: +46 8 751 72 30