As I mentioned to a couple of people on Friday, just wait I bet the overshooting of the runway at Midway on Thursday night will end up to be either mechanical or pilot error. Not necessarily due to the weather. And low and behold:
"Stuck switch cited in accident"
I did find it ironic that just days earlier I had been playing around at www.googlesighseeing.com and found their page for Midway. Read the caption under the first photo...
http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/11/02/chicagos-midway-airport/
Also on the ironic front "Incident follows another Midway crash by 33 years -- to the day"
Thoughts about the American Flight shooting in Miami after the jump.
Some people may claim that I have right-wing tendencies, however...
Whether or not the man shot and killed after exiting American Airlines Flight 924 actually had a bomb or not is completely irrelevant.
"With all the advances that the U.S. has supposedly made in their war against terrorism, I can't conceive that the marshals wouldn't be able to overpower an unarmed, single man, especially knowing he had already cleared every security check," Carlos Alpizar said Thursday of his brother's death, in a telephone interview from Costa Rica.
"I will never accept that it was necessary to kill him as if he was some dangerous criminal. And I want to make this distinction: He did not die. He was killed."
Could they have overpowered him absolutely. Would he have been able to detonate the bomb he purported to be carrying before they overpowered him. Very possible. More importantly, the man was told to stop by the armed Air Marshals. He did not, he reached into his bag.
The actions of the Air Marshals was 100 percent correct.
Source: Chicago Tribune
