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[Michael Feltham]

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Date: 26 January 2009 07:44:15 GMT
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Chelsey would have the blues as a sea captain
Monday 26 January 2009

 From Michael Grey,

SIR, John Lang in his First Person article (Lloyd’s List, January 20)  
was very telling in his comparison between the world of aviation and  
shipping in their attitude to casualties, where the priority in the  
former is that of discovering the cause, and in the latter fixing  
blame and criminal charges.

If a maritime regime had been applied to the Airbus ditching, the  
heroic Chesley Suttenberger would have been breathalysed, charged  
under the Migratory Species Act 1998 for the negligent slaughter of an  
unknown number of geese, and he and his employers would have faced  
numerous criminal charges for their pollution of the Hudson River with  
their fuel-laden aircraft.

If he had been a foreign national, he would have been deemed a “flight  
risk” and all his travel documents would have been seized, while he  
would have been incarcerated in a fetid prison before he had even  
managed to dry out his uniform. Makes you proud to be a seafarer,  
enjoying such worldwide public respect and esteem, doesn’t it?

Michael GreyHaywards Heath, RH16 1RB

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