HEADLINES: 2025
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Optimist!
During the Biden administration the perpetuation of humanity could be regarded as a virtual certitude.
There were multiple reasons for that then, but during this 2nd Trump term not all of them apply.
Compounding that, if Trump was willing to extend his first term via extra-Constitutional means:
then Katie bar the door on Trump's 2nd, and subsequent terms.
Shiftless2
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Delta agrees to pay $79M to settle lawsuit after jetliner dumped fuel on schools
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los AngelesDelta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes that was experiencing engine trouble dumped its fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods near Los Angeles.
The Delta jet had departed from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Jan. 14, 2020 when it needed to quickly return to Los Angeles International Airport. The Boeing 777-200 landed safely after circling back over Los Angeles while dumping 15,000 gallons of fuel to reach a safe landing weight.
Los Angeles County firefighters were called to schools in the city of Cudahy where nearly 60 schoolchildren and teachers were examined for minor skin and lung irritations. None required hospitalization.
Shortly after, teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy filed a lawsuit against ....
Delta agrees to pay $79M to settle lawsuit after jetliner dumped fuel on schools
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles
abcnews.go.com
Gross, &
a) What did you think wuz gunna happun ?!
b) Commercial air traffic is subject to FAA control in that airspace. This is an unusual case, and there are precedents of heavy aircraft dumping fuel safely. If an FAA approved checklist for this contingency was followed, it's overdue for update with bipartisan congressional oversight. If an FAA approved checklist was not followed, why not?!
c) I'd like additional details on spending criteria, & who signs the $checks. The expenditure of the $79M may be magnificent, I wouldn't count on it. The risk is it may be substantially worse than "magnificent".
What are the guarantees? What are the guidelines? Are any of them binding?
This smells like Boston harbor at low tide on the third day of a windless August heat wave.
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Shiftless2
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I was under the impression that the plane should have been diverted over the ocean to dump the fuel instead of doing so over land so whatever made the plane return quickly had to be more than slightly serious.