Longer Safer Runways at Reina Beatrix Airport in Aruba … What Took You So Long?

It is nice to see Aruba finally got around to making sure that their runways were safe for tourists as airplanes land and take off. Just how many planes have taken off and landed from Reina Beatrix airport with what would have been the shorter runway?

“The most important objective was extending the runways, so that extra safety zones are created. These safety zones are for aircrafts that have trouble during take off and landing”

Safety zones for aircrafts that have trouble during take off and landing? Important objective? If it was so important, why was this not done years ago, like say the 1980’s?

Longer runways ready

ORANJESTAD – The project for safer runways of the Reina Beatrix airport is officially complete. The runways are now 60 meters longer and better illuminated. The total cost of this project called Runway End Safety Area & Safety Approach Lighting System is more than 13 million florins. Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) started with this project in November of 2007. “The most important objective was extending the runways, so that extra safety zones are created. These safety zones are for aircrafts that have trouble during take off and landing”, said Peter Steinmetz, director of AAA. (Amigoe: July 1, 2008)

Tragic Plane Crash in Panama Leaves 3 Dead; Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23. One Surviver

The small plane carrier Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, Francesca Lewis, 12, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, had first gone missing over the weekend in Panama. Then the tragic news came upon the search and recovery as 3 people were found dead and 1 survivor.

Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, were found dead in an uninhabited region of Panama known as Las Ovejas, about 270 miles west of the capital, the civil protection agency said.

Wife of Missing Steve Fossett Asks Court to Declare him Dead

The wife of missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett asked the court today to legally declare him dead. Attorney Michael A. LoVallo filed the motion today in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of the Fossett family. 63 year old Steve Fossett went missing on September 3, 2007 after he took off in his single engine plane from an airstrip near Yerington, Nevada. The request to declare Steve Fossett dead is the first step in the process of resolving the multi-millionaires estate surpassing eight figures in liquid assets and other holdings.

The request was a step toward resolving the legal status of Fossett’s estate, which according to court papers is “vast, surpassing eight figures in liquid assets, various entities and real estate,” LoVallo said.

Fossett, 63, disappeared Sept. 3 after taking off in a single-engine plane from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev., heading toward Bishop, Calif.

Fossett was on a pleasure flight and not looking for a dry lake to use as a surface on which to set the world land speed record, as was initially reported, according to the petition filed on behalf of Peggy V. Fossett.

He did not have a parachute, nor did he take a watch that had a transponder and could have sent out a distress signal, the petition said. There was a transponder aboard but no signal was received. (Yahoo News)

Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary - Friday, October 5, 2007 - Don Imus Returns To The Airwaves

• Dana comments on the return of Imus, and its relevance in relation to recent high-profile broadcaster litigation.

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Millionaire Adventurer Steve Fossett is Missing in Nevada … Plane missing

Steve Fossett, the millionaire adventurer who has done some many death defying aviation acts and has set so many records is missing in the Nevada desert. His single engine plane is reported missing. Fossett was last reportedly seen taking off from the private airfield at the Flying M Ranch near Yerington, Nevada, on Monday evening.

Read more and get updates at MissingExploited.

Miracle Escape for Passengers Aboard China Airlines in Okinawa

Miracle Aboard China Airlines

Its a miracle. All 165 passengers aboard a China Airlines Boeing 737-800 that slid off the runway and exploded upon landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan survived. Simple amazing, that all could have survived will no real injuries.

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Daily Commentary - Tuesday April 17th, 2007 - Family Finds Closure After WWII Flyer ID’ed

Dana discusses how:

• Family Finds Closure After WWII Flyer ID’ed

Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly’s Remains ID’d after 63 Years

Remembering 9/11 Five Years Later … We Will Never Forget

Five years later after the terrible attack on innocent people who’s only guilt was being at work or traveling on a plane … we will always remember them fondly. We will never forget.

America, do not ever forget

September 11, 2001 was an attempt by misguided, fanatical muslim fundamentalist terrorists to alter the way of life of Americans. To have us live in fear and to divide us. Although we are now more aware, we are one. Five years later we remember that terrible day and vow never to let the terrorists win. We remember watching the events unveil on TV in disbelief, first one plane hitting the World Trade Center Tower and then the second.

We realized that such an action could never be forgotten … for those who forget history are only destine to repeat it.

We honor the brave heros of 9/11 and the innocent victims who perished in the World Trade center Towers, in the Pentagon and on Flight 93 giving up their lives to save other. God Bless you all.

Mourners in Pennsylvania remember those who died aboard United Flight 93.

(United Flight 93, Lets Roll)

Democrats Angered at ABC’s 9/11 Mini Series “The Path to 9/11″ but Where is their Outrage at Lunatic Academia?

It appears the upcoming ABC mini-series, “The Path to 9/11,” set to air on the eve of the five year anniversary of September 11 has Democrats in a turmoil. The mini-series will discuss the events and origins that lead to the terrible events of September 11, 2001.

“The Path to 9/11,” a five-hour dramatization laying out the history of the Sept. 11 plot from the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, will be aired over two nights on the anniversary of the attack next week by ABC Television.

Democrats seem to be upset in the portrayal of how the Clinton Administration handled terrorism from the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 to the aborted efforts to capture Osama bin Laden. Are we to believe that these events did not occur?

• After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000
• 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel
• 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel
• 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000
• October 12, 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 3 U.S. sailors (coping.org)

An event such as 9/11 was planned years in advance of 2001. GWB took office when? Even though its en vogue to blame everything on President Bush, responsibility does lie with the Clinton Administration as well. The writers of “The Path to 9/11” are most likely looking at the proportionality of time spent in office and terrorism that took place during the Clinton Administration to determine accountability, 8 years vs. 8 months.

But a portion of the film showing an aborted effort to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden before the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa has aroused the ire of some of the officials portrayed. A statement from Samuel “Sandy” Berger, (yes the same Sandy Berger) who was national security adviser to President Bill Clinton at the time, calls the scenes involving him “complete fabrications.” (UPI) 

We are supposed to learn from our mistakes, not point fingers. We are supposed to protect ourselves from terrorism, not make ourselves more vulnerable. There is no room for politics when it comes to our safety. September 11, 2001 taught us a valuable lesson and was a wake-up call. Think its safe to say many things failed that day, yet above all heroism and the unwaivering American spirit won in the end. Except 5 years later some think its ok to continue ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Whatever its flaws may or may not be, “The Path to 9/11″ makes clear there’s ample blame to go around. But for those who are game to take a break from finger-pointing, it also displays, with awful power, the larger truth that unites nearly everyone — yet still is given short shrift by policy makers. (SF Gate)

To Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike … imagine if a tough approach on terrorism was taken after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 instead of 2001, what a different set of circumstances and world we would live in today.

However, that is not the case. By the way, where is the Democrats outrage and ire at the lunatic left fringe of academia that claim that 9–11 was an “inside job”  perpetrated by the US neo-conservatives called the Project for a New American Century. Where is the Democratic outrage to these insanoids who without a doubt vote 99.89% for the Democratic Party?

The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an “inside job”, according to a group of leading academics.

(Look like an “inside job”?)

These conspiracy theories have to be read to be believed that individual could actually be walking the street with these idea let alone be college professors teaching young minds. These individuals are actually being paid or have been in the past to teach students. Anyone talking anyone of these professors classes presently or in the past may wish to go to your college business office and ask for a refund of your money.

Insane: Professor Steven Jones, who lectures in physics at the Brigham Young University in Utah, says the official version of events is the biggest and most evil cover up in history.

More insane: They believe a group of US neo-conservatives called the Project for a New American Century, set on US world dominance, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to hit Iraq, Afghanistan and later Iran.

Even more insane: The group also maintains World Trade Centre 7 - a neighbouring building which caught fire and collapsed later in the day - was only partially damaged but had to be destroyed because it housed a clandestine CIA station. (Daily Mail)

UPDATE:  BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11
MOVIE, INSISTS NET PULL DRAMA

WASHINGTON - A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series “The Path to 9/11″ grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network “pull the drama” if changes aren’t made.

(Read more at the NY Post)

Freedom of speech and expression be damned. Interesting how some don’t like it when the story is not so kindly about them. Why would one complain so much? Usually it occurs when its the truth and can be factually investigated. However, threatening to have a movie pulled lets no one see or hear information. The Democrats and Bill Clinton were rather absent in their condemnation regarding the recent British movie depicting the assassination of George W. Bush, “Death of a President.

Plane Crash Satire; What on Earth was NBC, The Emmy’s and Conan O’Brien thinking?

If one ever wanted to see just how out of touch Hollywood is from reality, one needed to look no farther than last nights Emmys. NBC managed to do the unthinkable. On the same day that Comair Flight 5191 crashed and tragically killed all but 1 of 50 people aboard; NBC and Conan O’Brien decided that it was ok to do a parody of a plane crash during last nights Emmys. (See video) Could they have been any more clue-less, unsympathetic or disrespectful?

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