Cathay Pacific 777 300ER Low Pass

On January 20, 2008, 55-year-old Cathay Pacific Captain Ian Wilkinson and his 48-year-old co-pilot Ray Middleton took delivery of a brand new 777-300ER from the Boeing factory in Seattle. As part of the acceptance ceremony, the two pilots made a low pass of the runway complex before continuing with their onwards journey. Cathay Pacific chairman Chris Pratt was one of the fifty or sixty VIP passengers on board the flight.

On arrival in Hong Kong Wilkinson was congratulated and celebrated the arrival with airline executives. He even got a mention in the airline newsletter, with an accompanying picture of the executives raising a glass in celebration of the maiden flight. The flypast was, for all intensive purposes, considered to be 'standard' procedure, and appears to have been something that was conducted as a matter of course when taking deliveries of new aircraft.

As a result of this 'stunt', Wilkinson, who was at the time the Cathay 777 fleet manager, was sacked from his high paying job, and Wilkinson's first officer Middleton was also suspended from training duties for six months. What happened between the bit where the pilot was praised, and where the pilot was sacked seems to be a little bit of a blur!

It is suggested that the video itself was responsible for making information available to local authorities, which in turn forced Cathay into taking their own action.

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• pacific
• 777
• 777300er
• boeing
• wilkinson
• low
• pass
• flyby
• hong
• kong

[6V92TA]

@jcadlols TOO LOW..GEAR. TOO LOW..FLAPS. TOO LOW TERRAIN.....WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP!!!

[yoyoyoyoshua]

nice my step dad build the 777

[VSG999]

Fake



[JorJorArmany]

i still wondering is this real or fake o.o

[pacrat90]

Wow.. That's stupid..

[02dehdeh]

"VEUILLEZ NE PAS LIRE CECI. VOUS SEREZ EMBRASSE LE VENDREDI LE PLUS PROCHE. DEMAIN SERA LE MEILLEUR JOUR DE VOTRE VIE.

CEPENDANT, SI VOUS NE POSTEZ PAS CE COMMENTAIRE quelque chose de mal va vous arriver. MAINTENANT QUE VOUS AVEZ COMMENCE DE LIRE CECI, N 'ARRETEZ PAS CA FAIT TROP PEUR. ENVOYEZ CA A 5 VIDEOS EN 143 MINUTES ET APPUYEZ SUR F6 ET LE NOM DE VOTRE AMOUR SECRET VA APPARAITRE SUR L 'ECRAN EN GRANDE LETTRES. CA FAT TROP PEUR PARCE QUE CA MARCHE REELEMENT CA MARCHE REELEMENT."

[wheels2wheels]

@AviatorNyx I am involved in taking delivery of a few B737-400 from Boeing fields in the 90's, such procedure was unheard of, it dangerous, I did took delivery of about 5 or 6 737, test flight was done before that final delivery flight and its normally done at a safe area not at Boeing Fields, Renton nor Everett.

One or more customer acceptance test flight will be done, but never like that.

[bajabenca]

Whoooooooooo!

[Moncobobow]

This was a Cathay Pacific pilot who was flying for VIP's. When they saw this he got fired :O

[averredude101]

@Sooksawaspakdee961 this bastard is from boeing

[Sooksawaspakdee961]

@averredude101 Fake??? but like yourself, faking an orgasm while masturbating..that´s fake.