Child's Play at JFK Has Adults Fuming Mad

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by SportsRacer

You really think letting the kid say "prepare for takeoff" a coupe of times is going to end up with that? Give me a ****ing break.

He wasn't actually controlling anything. He was being fed extremely basic lines and simply said them. Anything more complicated than that was still handled by the dad.

He shouldn't have done it for the sake of keeping his job, but I struggle to see anything legitimately wrong or dangerous about this.

Yeah, the odds are low, but I had no idea what the kid was talking about in the second line, and I doubt he did, either: "Let's see your Air Mexico 403 Kennedy, runway through left position and hold." I'd rather them gamble with their own lives than mine, even if the odds are low. No reason to let a kid get on the microphone at one of the most congested air spaces in the world. What if the kid decided to yell, "Terrorists! Land all your planes right now!" Kids do that kind of stuff sometimes.