Sometimes I just can't help myself ...

So I am reading this news post today ...Plane with dead pilot lands safely in Newark, NJ ... and thinking ... wow ... now that's really remarkable good news.

Pilot, 61, dies en route of natural causes ... co-pilots take over in orderly fashion and fly the plane without incident to it's safe arrival in Newark. Nice news-bite. Passengers have story to tell ... naturally we feel sad for the pilot and his family ... but, thankful no further incident.

But ...

Then ... I just let my imagination get the best of me ...

"Airline spokeswoman Kelly Cripe says the pilot died of natural causes Thursday on Flight 61 from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, N.J."

The same Cripe woman who just yesterday is in the news trying to gloss over the fact that the very same airline ... Continental ... has mishandled to small children passengers flying alone and sent them to far off destinations that were completely un-intended ... only to have to retrieve them and get them to their intended destinations ... a cock-up of major proportions ...

Now I am a marketing guy ... and maybe one of the world's great conspiracy theorists. Read mountains of text on the Warren Commission, most of the transcripts on the Watergate Hearings ... Watch 24 and CSI-NY voraciously! ... that kinda guy.

As a marketing guy (and in true Jack Bauer fashion) I am going ... how is Continental going to get out from under misplacing not one ... but two kids in one day??! Incompetence of the highest magnitude!

How about landing a plane with a dead pilot safely at it's final intended destination ...?!

Well ... gosh ... only 61 years old ??? ... a pilot (those guys are reasonably fit)?? ... of natural causes?? ... suddenly I may have totally forgotten about not one ... but two kids in one day! Incompetence of the highest magnitude!

ENOUGH! ... stop this foul thinking!! ... that is the stuff of $10 movie matinees!Incomprehensible.

(p.s. Did anyone check his coffee cup...???)