I hope on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, there were two men who wanted to make the disaster worse. Osama bin Laden and this guy: Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney’s infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered …
Because It’s Not Their Fault You Don’t Own Your Own Gulfstream
Take a look at the GOP ‘s vision of Galt’s heaven, air travel division: PASSENGERS fainted when a 5-foot hole opened in the roof of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Phoenix to Sacramento last week. The most frightening moment may have been when, as one passenger said, “You could look out and see …
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Stuff That Really Will Kill You
While fighter jets escorting a plane into JFK got wall-to-wall coverage, somehow this more dangerous incident on Tuesday received less attention: […][P]assengers on a recent American Airlines flight from Miami to Boston experienced a much more vivid sense of airborne peril when a 2-foot hole opened up in the plane’s fuselage about 30 minutes after …
There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
That piece from Matt Welch the other day is the gift that keeps on giving: Instead, I’ll close with this: The “worldview” of libertarianism suggested, back in the early 1970s, that if you got the government out of the business of setting all airline ticket prices and composing all in-flight menus, then just maybe Americans …
On The Upside
There has been some funny this election. The right-wing meltdown has been fun to watch, SNL has been great, and the nice thing about the election is that after eight years of Bush, regardless who wins, there will be new material for the comedians. As such, this preview from the 2009 Dancing With the Stars: …
Airline Bankruptcies
Get read for two more hits this week: Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines are both preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as Wednesday, people close to both companies said today. Northwest and Delta are each finishing the details of their bankruptcy cases, including the financing that they will require to operate under bankruptcy …
Oh No- Not a Memo!
I wonder if the DC politicians are going to have another collective aneurysm when they find out that a memo has been released predicting future terrorist activities: Terrorists operating in teams of five may be plotting suicide missions to hijack commercial airliners on the East Coast, Europe or Australia this summer, possibly using “common items …