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See anything that says "US" in this post? The issue is that there are people who have a valid claim that we shouldn't be the underpinning factor in this, both financially and logistically. It is a valid point. My view is that we should support them within reason, but Biden was never able to tip the scales, thought that was possible, but it needs to end.

Because that's how people act when they have enough. Other things become more important, like solving obvious problems and doing a greater service. Some people are like that, and we seem to have a few, thankfully.

And result in the end of production, as it always does when the gov screws things up by intervening.

I wonder if Rolling Stone used their famous informant "Jackie."

Skipper relieved, (fired), today. Such an incredible tough job.

It's a god observation, but microbursts are convection related, ie., up and down air, which you don't get in the winter. She didn't flare and didn't align the longitudinal axis or the airplane with the runway. The main landing gear couldn't handle the side load.

I will offer an answer that I am quite confident suggesting. The reason the FAA, NTSB or the particular company does not offer much until the official accident report comes out is quite simple. Lawsuits. In every aviation accident there are tons of lawsuits as ambulance chasing lawyers swarm the victims and families. Anything said is going to end up repeated in court, not matter how goofy or speculative. Inside the industry, people know the answers almost immediately, with very few exceptions. MH 370 comes to mind, but even that is pretty well known, they just can't find it. Airlines don't keep records of recurrent training on individuals for that same reason. If there is a problem, they are certain to correct it, but they want no record subject to subpoena. Here's a real life example. One night I as flying a 757 on the LA to Chicago all nighter. This was two days prior to OJ's flight, but that was coincidence. We had just leveled off and the FO answers the phone from the flight attendants and tells him there is a first class pass who has just had a heart attack. Sitting next to this guy is a UCLA Medical Center heart guy. They get the guy on the floor and the MD uses the defib and is working on the guy. He keeps him alive, but we get another phone call, and the MD says the guy has no chance. I get from 35000' to touchdown in Phoenix in 16 minutes, and emergency medical people are at the gate and the guy lives. This MD tells me once we get to Chicago that if this guy was at home, he would have never made it even to the ambulance arriving. Anyway, he sued the airline anyway, didn't win, and then sent a Christmas card to the airline for saving his life, which they forwarded to me. The point is that once an "event" occurs, everyone behaves with the knowledge that lawsuits are inevitable, so nobody talks until the report comes out.

Ya. The thing that will tell is the FDR record of sink rate and G at touchdown. I got a feeling it was "firm."

Same as me. What is anniversary date?

Side loaded right main landing gear coincident with unacceptable sink rate. It looked like a carrier landing. There was no flare to diminish the sink rate just prior to touchdown, which is always part of the landing. Stiff right crosswind leading to the mains not aligned with the runway at touchdown caused a side load which overstressed the gear and caused separation. These are basic techniques.

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I retired as a 777 captain. Almost everyone who flies tactical airplanes gets out and does the airline thing. Way more money, time off and no long deployments.

I have no idea what you mean or intend, but having thousands of hours in the A7E, and doing the Topgun Pacific Fleet Adversary thing for a couple of years, as well as fighting against the F-18 hundreds of times, I stand by what I said.

Really? I have 2000 hours in the A7E. Two cruises to Westpac in it. 300+ traps and every conceivable mission. I love the airplane. The capability of that airplane never came close to the F-18 in the air to air arena, I would love to talk to anyone who claims otherwise, but such an individual does not exist.

OK. Not sure where that comes from, but nothing surprises me here. I have flown with the F-14 countless times in carrier airwing strikes, and against it countless times as an adversary. I am extremely familiar with it, and it's weapons system. There was nothing I enjoyed more than fighting an F-14, but you believe what you want. Not my interest or issue.

Good luck on your aviation wishes. I flew against the F-14 tons of times, as a Pacific Fleet Adversary. The F-18 was multitudes better. Topgun is a cool move, but I never had any serious problem beating the F-14 in a close in "knife fight." Ever. It was designed and employed as a beyond visual range Phoenix missile launcher. I loved fighting it. Two turns and you had it. The FAA screwed up allowing visual operations along the final of runway 33 with civilian ops, who are not as good at looking outside.

Not sure what you are suggesting here, but the accidents are completely unrelated. If you have a point to dispute that, make it.

Really not a fan of Trump on this. It seems to me that he is more interested in getting recognition for a silly and ill advised campaign promise than choosing the best long term solution. Throwing a life preserver to Putin is a long term mistake. Not too long term, maybe a few years, but not a good idea. Squish the roach, along with the on life support Iranian regime.

Is there an actual competition on being world class stupid here? Trump fired exactly zero air traffic controllers. Zero. I wonder how someone could be stupid enough to make that claim, but I'm no longer surprised by what gets posted here. Buttigieg was a fiasco. And by the way, controllers have nothing to do with planes "falling our of the sky," per your idiotic claim that never happened anyway. Pilots do.

Among those who are familiar with this stuff, he was an undisputed failure. As he tries to resuscitate his failed political career, a strategy of claiming to have run the DOT well is ludicrous.

You are absolutely incapable of processing basic information in English sentence structure. I have absolutely never said that people fired from the VA were lazy, and there isn't a singly person who would ever consider me lazy. You are so corrupted by hatred that you have become totally irrational.

I heard some info today that the Social Security folks have about 3.5 million people between 120 and 130 years old, 3.6 million between 130 and 140, and lots more well above that, including a thousand or so well over 200 years old. No need for an independent look at that. Nah, just let 'em be and keep paying.

Pointless to expect any rational exchange. Trump did it as a real estate mogul in NY.

MCAS was well on its way prior to Trump. Further, I doubt you have any idea how certification is done, how competent Boeing or other aircraft manufacturers are, or their capabilities, or the test process prior to certification. How many US 737's have succumbed to MCAS? None. Know why? This crazy vector on this forum of assigning any degree of blame for this recent spate of incidents is bizarre and unjustified. The antiquated FAA air traffic control system should have been addressed years ago, and certainly under the four years of Buttigieg. No. He was too busy forcing adult professionals to attend pronoun training and changing the decades old lexicon to get the phrase man out of everything. Total waste, and despised by all with a stake. Just horrible.

More idiocy. I don't have any idea who is doing nothing. I simply expressed my viewpoint that if there isn't productivity from people, we shouldn't be forced to pay for them, and it happens all the time in the gov. Second, claiming that you know anybody, let alone Trump, is laughing at people hurt in an accident puts you at a new level. Just crazy assed, unbridled, irrational hatred.