Wind shear is a powerful thing. On March 23, aircraft started landing at Narita at 6 a.m. Winds up to 72 kph were blowing mainly from the northwest. Before the accident, 12 aircraft had landed safely under these conditions, including a Japan Airlines jumbo jet and a Nippon Cargo Airlines
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I finished Tom Ricks book The Gamble a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been going back and re-reading certain sections to make sure I understand exactly what he was trying to say. Here is my take on the book. 1) At first I was truly worried that Ricks had drunk
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Is a failure to communicate. China Southern Airways has a lousy safety record. Maybe one reason for that is that they do not speak the language of aviation: A Japanese air safety board investigating a 2007 incident in which a China Southern Airlines plane that entered a runway without permission
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Or a GPS. Foreign Policy provides one for Pakistan. The Complete Idiots Guide to Pakistan.
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In like a lion-out like a lion? Cold today-just as it was a couple of weeks ago when we took these pictures: This is Poogan’s Porch-which is the place you want to go for an artery hardening brunch on a cold Sunday morning. The restaurant is named for the dog
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Our wackos are better than your wackos: The views of right-wing commentators in the grip of the paranoid style (Obama is a stealth radical, the Democrats are imposing socialism) are much closer to mainstream conservative and Republican belief than the views of their counterparts on the left (the levees in
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What they have to look forward to at Camp Smith, HI soon: Like a bad dream……….that never…….goes away.
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Back when we were in Charleston a couple of weeks ago, I gave the S.O. a complete tour of the Citadel campus. One of the places I dragged her into took her to was the Daniel Library. It is worth the look-see, if only for the reason that the front
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The Hong Kong Sevens are underway. And I’m not there. One of these days………. Sigh.
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Obviously, the Sermon on the Mount is not one of the main topics of discussion in certain church in Wasilla: “So I’m looking around for somebody to pray with, I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra,” said Palin. “And the McCain campaign, love ’em, you know,
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