Ouch! ... pilot error?

Enemy fire?

He came around after the first bad pass and saved the day.

 

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I assume they had permission, on my ship the Air Boss would own your ass for a stunt like that if you didn't.

His handle was 'Terror'.

 

Rules for thee...

I would have arrested her by 2:40.

 

 

Dotson Runway Graves
Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

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Citing their belief that their ancestors who had owned the farmland would have wanted to stay on the land they worked so hard to cultivate and purchase, the surviving Dotson relatives refused to allow Richard and Catherine to be moved.

 

7 ‘Unsinkable Sam’ facts — the battleship cat that really had 9 lives

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Only 115 of Bismarck’s 2,100 crew members survived that battle. Hours later, a cat was found floating amongst the wreckage and rescued from the water by the crew of the British destroyer HMS Cossack. It was a fortunate turn of events, to be sure, but the cat’s incredible war adventure had just begun.

 

FAA probe: United Airlines passengers filmed in Boeing 757 cockpit midflight

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In the video, the cockpit door is seen open as a man sits in the captain’s seat next to the first officer. A woman is filming the interaction while joking with the man in the captain’s seat about landing the aircraft.
A fourth person, who appears to be another passenger, then enters the flightdeck.

 

FAA probe: United Airlines passengers filmed in Boeing 757 cockpit midflight

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FAA probe: United Airlines passengers filmed in Boeing 757 cockpit midflight

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At first, I thought it might be possible that the regulations are different for chartered flights, but the story would seem to make it clear that this is not the case and that, even if it were, it would still be against company policy.

In years long past, having passengers visit the flight deck, especially kids, was very routine, and it was common to let them sit in the pilot or copilot's seat and even fly the plane a bit. When I was 14 I got to fly a C-130 for a few minutes and got another couple minutes behind the controls of a DC-10 when I was 20. There's essentially zero risk -- as long as the person visiting doesn't have ill-intent, which is an assumption that just can't be made anymore.

Ah, but for simpler days....

 

Missing emergency slide that fell off Delta flight found — washed up in front of house of lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing

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Several hours later, around 5 p.m., a crew of Delta workers arrived. They fished the chute out of the water and threw it into the back of a pickup truck, he said.

And a note, from Erika Armstrong's LinkedIn:

So, maybe it wasn't an accident?! Just kidding. Having a slide fall off a 30 year old airplane is not a Boeing problem That's a maintenance issue. Please let the lawyer know that airplane evacuation slides are inspected, re-tested, re-packed, and re-installed every three years, and airlines deploy at least one slide each year on each aircraft. With proper maintenance, a slide can last 15 years, but maybe we can't say the same for the panel that holds the slide in since this keeps happening...

 

 

 

Will be interesting to find out what led to the initial altercation. Was this driver an innocent victim, or part of the problem.

I still have little feel for whether these kinds of things are actually occurring more frequently (after adjusting for population growth and possibly population density) or not. Would anyone outside the local news area have ever heard about this one had it not been caught on video? Probably not. Would people in the local news area have heard about it? Very possibly not.

I remember when I was 15, a car being driven by a couple of drunk kids a year older than me came racing up our street and slammed into the back of a pickup, pushing the truck uphill more than fifty feet and totaling both vehicles. Both of the kids were badly injured, but survived. Not a peep about it in the local news coverage or newspapers. If you didn't happen to be within a few houses of when and where it happened, or heard about it via the grapevine, you would never have known it happened. But, today, if that had happened and been caught by a doorbell camera at any of probably eight houses that would have had a view of at least part of the crash, everyone in the country would probably have had the opportunity to be exposed to it.

On the flip side, I am definitely seeing more and more asinine behavior on the roads than ever before and it really does seem to be getting worse as time goes by. A decade or two ago, I might notice a couple incidents of reckless/careless driving a month, but now it is usually a couple of such incidents every time I drive more than ten miles or so. There has, of course, always been some level of such behavior (as a male teen driver, I accounted for several incidents of it, myself).

 

I still have little feel for whether these kinds of things are actually occurring more frequently...

Shootings/assaults/robberies/etc. in my immediate area have increased considerably in the last couple of years. Partly, I blame this:

The top 15 cities [illegal] migrants flew into during the eight-month window were:

• Miami, Fla.: 91,821
• Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.: 60,461

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https://cis.org/Bensman/Secret-Fina...n-Know-US-Cities-Receiving-Hundreds-Thousands

 

Shootings/assaults/robberies/etc. in my immediate area have increased considerably in the last couple of years. Partly, I blame this:



https://cis.org/Bensman/Secret-Fina...n-Know-US-Cities-Receiving-Hundreds-Thousands

Good for yellow medias to gain more clicks in world's evil hour.

 

Exploding Chocolate Teacakes


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At 15,000 feet, the marshmallow interior cracked the chocolate shell. Air crews removed the teacakes from their silver foil packaging and perched them around the cabin for observation. The aerated marshmallow continued to swell as pressure changed, and the sweets became too big to eat in one bite. Many noted that, despite the extreme physical effects, the expansion didn’t compromise the taste.

 

Kiwis can fly!

 

F-14D Pilot’s Passenger Ejected by Accident


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“He said he didn’t know where to put his hands. Consequently, he just left them in loosely clenched fists on his lap, about two inches away from the ejection handle. It never occurred to me that someone would not know what to do with his hands.