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We need a Hamster Safety Administration to make sure this is never repeated! Better body scanners capable of finding rodents secreted on a human are clearly needed.

DC-8s, Convair 880s and 707s could readily break the sound barrier in a dive I thought? I imagine many modern private jets still can and I have met a few pilots who claim to have done it. I always assumed it was the whisky talking, but it is not inherently incredible that lots of people are...

Saw the same story in the Guardian. It must be recycled from some other source. Odd to see you reading my home state paper Peter? What has always struck me as odd about this, is that "DB Cooper" was either crazy or knew what he was doing. Assuming he knew what he was doing, it seems like a big...

That is fairly close to me. I might try and drop by.

We shall see where the proceeds go, whether to fund federal law enforcement or to Americans whose property was stolen by the communists in Venezuela.

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 is in there too. Don't get me wrong, taking the example of Venezuela, I think Maduro is evil, but where does this go in the long run?

So this was slightly amusing on some level, but is actually part of a larger issue now. The WSJ had this story recently also that the Russian government demands $100 million from Canada for seized aircraft. With this type of thing going on now are we seeing the breakdown of the order that has...

I no longer fly because I am a bad pilot and I sure as hell don't fly with poorly qualified private pilots or qualified pilots who can't afford to maintain a modern aircraft.

So came across this. I am familiar with the horror stories of driving across reservations, but wonder if anyone else has ever heard of them seizing an aircraft:

Sometimes removing inefficiency solves that problem. So as to 121 I do check the safety records of airlines and aircraft types. With 135 I always double check. As for helicopter tours, well yeah, I think I commented on one tour operator that scared me. However, helicopter tours are notorious...

I am not sure why the FAA would lack authority to do that. There is 14 CFR § 135.119 which is kinda vague. USCG has implemented some guns bans and while I am not sure they are entirely legal, they are doing it anyways.

I think there is a strong argument that the FAA makes aviation safety worse . Passengers think that if an operator holds a certificate from the FAA it must be safe. While if there was no FAA then people would be further incentivized to research air carriers. A 121 example would be Delta Air...

So maybe take a more extreme real world example, perhaps the crash of N114TD in 2018. In that case, a Falcon 50 crashed due to improperly trained pilots and an aircraft which should not have even been in the air. It seems that this happens with some frequency in Part 135 where oversight is more...

Congress should do many things, but they do not do them.

Yes, point being they are under statute and DoT regulations empowered to investigate and even prosecute certain crimes.

Actually they have in the past and could in theory do so. I am sure if I pulled cases I would find some SAUSAs from the FAA.

When does a safety violation necessitate the threat of violence for enforcement purposes? It seems to me that the potential threat to the public from unsafe aircraft is palpable, but perhaps Peter will disagree. Of course, it is also possible that the regulations which do exist actually do more...

The idea that because the FAA does not generally engage in criminal enforcement directly there is not threat of violence would be like arguing that the People's Republic of China is a peaceful country because it does not have an army. (The country does not have an army, but the communist party...

So let us say you were in Singapore where corporal punishment is used for minor crimes, e.g. vandalism. Do you consider the threat of being caned in Singapore to be a threat of violence? In the US the 8th Amendment has been interpreted as banning corporal punishment as "cruel and unusual" but...