It looks like we have another case on our hands of airline employees behaving badly.

Two former Delta Air Lines employees, a pilot and his fiancee flight attendant, are going to court for possession of opium poppies, which as reported by the Salt Lake City Tribune is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

Now, it should be pointed out that at the poppies the two were in possession of can be purchased online, and that prosecutors acknowledge that “they’re everywhere.” However, along with the poppies, a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia was found in the couple’s bedroom, leading to misdemeanor charges in addition to the felony charges.

Both the pilot and the flight attendant have been let go from Delta Air Lines (although the pilot reports that he retired, while the flight attendant claims she was fired). The real catch of the case is that the defendants claim the opium poppies were purchased for decorative purposes only. Regardless of why they wanted them, in the State of Utah possessing opium poppies is “the same as possessing cocaine or heroin.”

We’ll keep you informed to let you know how the decorating defense goes over, and whether or not the two former Delta Air Lines employees can have the felony charges dropped.

Okay, you’re the pilot of an American Airlines plane, on the runway at Dallas heading to Paris. You and/or your colleagues hear the following:

1. Loud noises (from the belly of the plane)
2. Loud shaking noises
3. An explosion

What do you do?

A. Stop the plane
B. Stop the plane!
C. Keep flying to Paris

If you guessed C., you too can work for American Airlines! (Yeah, yeah, they all got to Paris safely, even though a panel to the air-conditioning system popped off, blah, blah…but…I mean, really).

A Mesa Airlines pilot’s laptop went missing last week at Washington’s Dulles Airport. This wasn’t any old laptop, mind you. It contained top secret security information that, as reported by Washington DC’s ABC 7 News, provide “the pilot, through a keypad, access from the gate to the plane and down to ground level right below the plane.”

Needless to say, this caused major security concerns. 17 airports including Chicago O’Hare and Hartsfield in Atlanta, had to quickly change security codes. While this situation caused general panic and some embarrassment for Mesa Airlines, it also raised serious security questions. Should sensitive codes such as these be stored on a pilot’s laptop? If so, what measures need to be in place to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen on a regular basis?

Sometimes, anyway. A few seconds worth, anyway.

Here’s the deal: an acquaintance told me that any time a small plane flies over his house, he can hear the pilot’s conversation coming out of his computer speakers.

You’re probably thinking flashbacks, but he was always kind of a goody-goody, so that’s not it. Maybe it’s because his house is high up in the Rockies — closer to the action so to speak.

I wanted to know if he heard anything interesting – but no. Just idle chit-chat. And he could recall neither the chit nor the chat.

Now if he could just arrange to be seated at said computer when UFO’s fly by. You know how the Western skies are infested with them, and I for one would like a heads-up about any conquest of earth – strictly for planning purposes (Do I send the dry-cleaning out? Or wait?).

Remember that incident back in February, when 2 “go! airlines” pilots flew past the airport in Hilo, Hawaii? Yeah, they sort of missed their runway — by about 15 miles.

And people were sort of wondering — were they napping?

Well, they’ve been axed. But here’s the deal: “go! airline’s” parent company, Mesa Air Group, has had its share of complaints by pilots that they are overworked and exhausted.

That ain’t right. On the other hand, the only person I want to see sleeping on a plane is me.

The FAA is taking a look at whether a couple of Go! Airlines pilots went sleepy-bye on a flight to Hilo. According to this AP report, the feds got a little suspicious when the plane overshot it’s runway by, oh, 15-miles or so.

This wouldn’t be the first time pilots fell asleep on the job; it happened to a couple of Frontier pilots back in 2004. But those guys were on a pretty long flight, from Baltimore to Denver.

Not our Go! guys. Keep reading…