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This is at max jax, lol i know i keep stealing stuff from there but i dont know how many on here go there too. 
Michael Jackson appreciated his Finnish pilot's honesty
A Finnish pilot, Pekka Karu became Michael Jackson's pilot around the millennium. Karu picked up Jackson from Santa Barbara and was taking him to Miami when after 25 minutes of flying Jackson surprisingly entered the cabin. That was the first time the pilot met Michael Jackson in person.
"He told me he was scared of flying ja asked what kind of weather was due to expect during the flight. I told him there's a storm coming in Midwest and there's always turbulence above the Gulf of Mexico."
Michael calmed down when the pilot told him private jets are normally flying 3 kilometers higher than normal passenger aircrafts, so therefore they can either fly above the storm or get around them.
"Michael wanted to know what part of the day is the best part to fly and I answered either at night or early in the morning because storms are developing at afternoons. Next he wanted to know if we can fly somewhere else and I said 'sure, you are the one who pays the bill.'"
Jackson asked a couple of times where the pilot would like to fly.
"He couldn't decide, so I told him Las Vegas is always a nice place to visit so he asked me to fly there. I made new arrangements and landed to Las Vegas."
Jackson stayed in Las Vegas almost two days before continuing his trip to Miami.
Afterwards Jackson always wanted the "Finnish pilot who's name he can't pronounce" to be the pilot on his flights.
"I think it was the 3rd or 4th flight when I asked him why he always wanted to have me, even though there's plenty of good pilots to choose from. Michael said he was impressed because I was the first pilot to tell the truth about the weather. I thanked him for the compliment."
Karu tells Michael visited the cabin many times during the flights, mostly asking about the weather or just to spend time, otherwise he was playing with his children or negotiating with his assistants.
"He always had an entourage with him."
Pilot can't remember and doesn't even know all the requests Jackson had for his flights.
"We always have a very exact profiles for our passengers, but it's flight attendants job to take care of."
Flight attendant on Karu's flights was his girlfriend at the time, Lauren Wallace.
It was also Karu's flight in 2003 when Jackson travelled from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara to face the charges. Afterwards it became public that two mechanics had placed cameras inside the plane in urge to sell the tapes to the media.
"Those guys went to jail."
According to the DA Jackson had molested children on that same flight, so the DA also contacted Karu.
"I had already refused twice to testify against Michael when Tom Sneddon himself called me and threatened me to testify. I still refused because I didn't have anything bad to say about Jackson. Sneddon hung up the phone."
If Karu would have testified it could had been the end of his career as a celebrity pilot.
"No one would have remembered what I would have said. They would only have remembered me telling something."
Pilot tells Jackson was a "cool guy", friendly and polite, who was easy to respect.
"Many times people have asked me about his personality and I have always said no matter what they think of him spending 3 minutes with him would already change their views about him into more positive."
The last flight with Jackson was a year ago when Karu took him to Las Vegas in the morning and back to Los Angeles later that evening.
"Both flights he sat between the pilots, on a seat that is meant for the flight attendant and asked how I was doing because we had not seen for two years. In response he told me about his time in Bahrain and how he was worried about the climate change. Michael wondered if I had seen any changes during my 25 years career as a pilot."
Jackson didn't know much about Finland, but Karu had a funny way to tell facts about Finland as a jokes, so people would remember them better.
"I am pretty much the only Finnish person celebrities meet during their lives, that's why I want to give a good impression of myself. People tend to create the image of the country and people living there based on one person they meet."
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Michael Jackson appreciated his Finnish pilot's honesty
A Finnish pilot, Pekka Karu became Michael Jackson's pilot around the millennium. Karu picked up Jackson from Santa Barbara and was taking him to Miami when after 25 minutes of flying Jackson surprisingly entered the cabin. That was the first time the pilot met Michael Jackson in person.
"He told me he was scared of flying ja asked what kind of weather was due to expect during the flight. I told him there's a storm coming in Midwest and there's always turbulence above the Gulf of Mexico."
Michael calmed down when the pilot told him private jets are normally flying 3 kilometers higher than normal passenger aircrafts, so therefore they can either fly above the storm or get around them.
"Michael wanted to know what part of the day is the best part to fly and I answered either at night or early in the morning because storms are developing at afternoons. Next he wanted to know if we can fly somewhere else and I said 'sure, you are the one who pays the bill.'"
Jackson asked a couple of times where the pilot would like to fly.
"He couldn't decide, so I told him Las Vegas is always a nice place to visit so he asked me to fly there. I made new arrangements and landed to Las Vegas."
Jackson stayed in Las Vegas almost two days before continuing his trip to Miami.
Afterwards Jackson always wanted the "Finnish pilot who's name he can't pronounce" to be the pilot on his flights.
"I think it was the 3rd or 4th flight when I asked him why he always wanted to have me, even though there's plenty of good pilots to choose from. Michael said he was impressed because I was the first pilot to tell the truth about the weather. I thanked him for the compliment."
Karu tells Michael visited the cabin many times during the flights, mostly asking about the weather or just to spend time, otherwise he was playing with his children or negotiating with his assistants.
"He always had an entourage with him."
Pilot can't remember and doesn't even know all the requests Jackson had for his flights.
"We always have a very exact profiles for our passengers, but it's flight attendants job to take care of."
Flight attendant on Karu's flights was his girlfriend at the time, Lauren Wallace.
It was also Karu's flight in 2003 when Jackson travelled from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara to face the charges. Afterwards it became public that two mechanics had placed cameras inside the plane in urge to sell the tapes to the media.
"Those guys went to jail."
According to the DA Jackson had molested children on that same flight, so the DA also contacted Karu.
"I had already refused twice to testify against Michael when Tom Sneddon himself called me and threatened me to testify. I still refused because I didn't have anything bad to say about Jackson. Sneddon hung up the phone."
If Karu would have testified it could had been the end of his career as a celebrity pilot.
"No one would have remembered what I would have said. They would only have remembered me telling something."
Pilot tells Jackson was a "cool guy", friendly and polite, who was easy to respect.
"Many times people have asked me about his personality and I have always said no matter what they think of him spending 3 minutes with him would already change their views about him into more positive."
The last flight with Jackson was a year ago when Karu took him to Las Vegas in the morning and back to Los Angeles later that evening.
"Both flights he sat between the pilots, on a seat that is meant for the flight attendant and asked how I was doing because we had not seen for two years. In response he told me about his time in Bahrain and how he was worried about the climate change. Michael wondered if I had seen any changes during my 25 years career as a pilot."
Jackson didn't know much about Finland, but Karu had a funny way to tell facts about Finland as a jokes, so people would remember them better.
"I am pretty much the only Finnish person celebrities meet during their lives, that's why I want to give a good impression of myself. People tend to create the image of the country and people living there based on one person they meet."
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