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A Southwest Airlines pilot has been sentenced to 1 year of probation after watching porn on a flight and exposing his genitals to an officer, the New York Post reports. Michael Haak, 60, was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson Friday and ordered to pay $5,000. “It started as a consensual prank between me and the […]
Do guaranteed income programs live up to all the hype? Oakland is looking to find out. The city’s mayor, Libby Schaaf, took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce the launch of “Oakland Resilient Families”—a pilot program that will provide $500 a month in guaranteed income to 600 families. Schaaf said the experiment will span 18 months and benefit Black, Indigenous, and other people of […]
The FBI is reportedly looking into claims that some yahoo was flying thousands of feet above Los Angeles with a jetpack this past Sunday. This person was sighted by two different pilots on two different flights, according to NBC News. One of the pilots was working for American Airlines. Said pilot was on approach to L.A. […]
Two unidentified JetBlue flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against the airline and two of their pilots for allegedly drugging and raping them during a layover in Puerto Rico last year, HuffPo reports. The suit alleges that pilots Eric Johnson and Dan Watson approached the two crew staffers and another woman, who also worked for […]
This past October, an off-duty pilot that was in the the cockpit jump seat on a Lion Air flight was able to avert disaster, Bloomberg News reports. Citing two sources familiar with the investigation into the incident, the publication detailed that the off-duty pilot advised the crew to disable the malfunctioning flight system after control of the plane was […]
Cobie Smulders will make her return to primetime network television to play the lead role of Dex Parios in the ABC pilot Stumptown, Variety reports. Based on the graphic novel written by Greg Rucka, the project tells the story of Dex, a “strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted army veteran” who has returned to her hometown of Portland, Oregon where she works as a private investigator. Even […]
Die-hard Game of Thrones fans know that the forces behind the series made a pilot that never aired well before the hit show debuted on HBO. Given that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss agree that the original episode is irredeemable, it’s unlikely that it will ever see the light of day. However, the original pilot […]
Earlier this week, Base Entertainment—a company that specializes in producing live performances—has opened a casting call for people to audition for the late XXXTentacion in a yet-to-be-named TV pilot. The casting call, posted on Backstage.com, asks for men of African descent to try out for the role of X, whom they characterize as “confident yet not […]
