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As much as I hate saying it, I think it could be argued that the fatalities from highjacking are down. However, I am not sure that matters. These numbers were so low prior to 2001 that improving the floor wax at airports to have greater traction knit have saved more lives from decreasing lethal...

Not sure if there are any 135 pilots here, but from what I can tell in the cheap seats, one issue is that outside of the big fractional companies, many 135 pilots are flying different types all the time and that causes confusion.

I will address the second part of this first, because at least that is a decent point. I will concede that highjacking are down and that something happened in 2001 to change that. I have not crunched the numbers, but my "gut feeling" is that the decrease is statistically significant, but I would...

The story seems to omit how she was caught which is interesting. It implied the charade was noticed at some point after takeoff and it is notable that they obviously did not think there was any security concern or they would have diverted the aircraft away from LAX! With some level of...

Wonder if it is designed to radiate heat at any angle

Too bad, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group used to be ok, like Die Zeit had a mild left institutional bias, but still ok, e.g. like the Economist. O tempora, o mores

Granted my input might be worth what you are paying me for it here, but perhaps some kind of traction tape carefully wrapped around them?

Saw these recently when I was in NZ on my way to Antarctica. Seems like a very odd choice as Norway does have C-130s fitted for ice runways in their own Air Force inventory.

Or is this simply the decline of all print media and perhaps the fact that your perception of science may have changed with a few years of post secondary education? At least they managed not to make the article political.

So in an odd twist I was in town and there was a group of Challenger pilots talking at the local Juicery about this crash who were convinced it was pilot error and bad placement of engine controls causing both engines to flame out by mistake. (I of course suggested they comment here, so...

So I looked it up, N672DL is 32 year old jet which was delivered by Boeing when George H.W. Bush was president. This seems more like an issue with Delta using aged aircraft to save money and engaging in substandard maintenance. I would actually posit a different argument that the Boeing 757...

Oldest 757s in Service Not sure this is an indictment of the 757. Delta's 757 fleet has an average age of like 30 years.

Sorry, fixed that, but likely too little too late. Sorry was away and did not see this.

I know one person this happened to in Florida and it related to substandard fuel they had taken on in the Caribbean. Granted I have no idea what could cause that here.

So this is interesting and actually brings to mind the conversation we recently had regarding the varying safety of different commercial operators. You had suggested that US based carriers were objectively superior in safety, which I vehemently disagree with. That question aside though, we could...

Is it possible that this is more of a PR stunt? The problem is that a private company seems to have little economic incentive to got to the moon. Granted there are clearly some mining opportunities, but that cost of that extraction would seem to far outweigh the cost at this time?

Alaska Airlines Blowout Reveals Cockpit Door Vulnerability on Boeing Jet Saw this on WSJ this morning. I was actually aware of this, but I find it interesting that some people were not. What I find interesting is that people, namely the public, are still concerned over this facet of aviation...

Given the relative size of the French Air Force and the relatively smaller size of the French commercial airline fleet I would not be surprised if they have an higher ratio of military trained pilots than US airlines do.