Trump has been busy over the weekend.
One of his people went to Panama to discuss the canal we built a minute back and how we expect to use it.
Another guy went to Venezuela to get some American hostages released and get them to agree to take their illegal aliens back.
And he sent missiles out to kill some terrorists.
It is nice to have a President who can take the big boy stairs and send out people to do big boy negotiations over Canals, Hostages, and Terrorists…
Oh My…
So I just got something shipped to me via Fed Ex.
The day before it was to arrive, they told me they would get it to me between 8AM and 8PM and I had to be up to sign for it.
I work overnights. I sleep during the day.
No. That does not work. I called them to make alternate delivery arrangements. They hung up on my three times. And on the fourth, they would make no changes at all. They won’t even let me pick it up at their office, because the package will forever be on the delivery truck which leaves before their office is open and returns after their office is closed.
If this is the kind of business they run, I never want to see anything with the name Fed Ex ever again.
Fed Ex Sucks.
We’ve had two tragic airline accidents this week. The one in Washington DC and now one in Philadelphia involving a Lear jet that just fell out of the sky. In Washington, information continues to come out. All of the safety systems meant to keep low flying visual flying aircraft below the level that instrument flight aircraft fly at appear to have been not working. Which could explain why the Black Hawk was flying above its safety ceiling, in the air corridor set aside for the airline jet coming into a landing on instruments only. We don’t know why the jet in Philadelphia fell yet. But all the evidence we have so far suggests that the accident in Washington DC was because all of safety programs designed to stop aircraft from crashing in mid-air were not implemented correctly. Both mechanical and personnel. This accident at least may have been a complete failure of the entire aviation industry in our nation. If the current information we have is accurate.
Sixty seven lives were lost when the Black Hawk hit the passenger plane at Washington National Airport. Most information we have points to it being an accident. But an accident made possible by serious things that were done wrong. The Black Hawk was flying above the approved ceiling for helicopter flights. And a single traffic controller was doing the job of two. Earlier in the day there had been two of them. But one was authorized to go home, and the other had to pick up the slack. Would that problem have been noticed if two were on the job? I’m not sure we’ll ever know the answer to that. But I don’t like that the norms were not followed. The norms are there to keep things safe. And things were not safe by any means.
While a civilian airliner was on final approach to land at Reagan National Airport, an army Black Hawk from the priority transport battalion flew into it. The priority transport battalion flies priority transportees everywhere around Washington DC, but the army reports that this was a training mission and that no VIPs were onboard. They report three occupants on the helicopter, added to the sixty-four souls on the airliner. But I have to ask, why did they have a training flight up at night, flying through the landing corridor of an international airport? Why did the helicopter simply fly directly into the airliner? Is this a tragic accident? Or is it worse than that? Is it an on purpose? We need to find out.
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