December 24, 201410 yr I think you mean: Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! Yes that too :Dinah: ... Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! MERRY CHRISTMAS !
December 28, 201410 yr ^ An AirAsia plane went missing whilst flying over Indonesia (it lost contact with air traffic control), kinda like the Malaysian Airlines flight earlier on in the year.
December 29, 201410 yr Fox News host mocked for speculating that AsiaAir flight went missing because foreign pilots use the metric system Anna Kooiman asked airline expert whether differences in Imperial and metric measuring systems cause problems for foreign pilots AsiaAir flight went missing this morning over the Java Sea shortly after pilot asked for change in altitude due to sever weather A Fox News host has drawn the ire of the internet after speculating on air what could have caused the disappearance of AsiaAir Flight QZ8501. The flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore went missing early this morning over the Java Sea, shortly after the pilot asked for a change in altitude due to severe weather. Fox News co-host Anna Kooiman interviewed former FAA spokesperson Scott Brenner about the search for the missing flight Sunday morning, asking the airline industry insider whether foreign pilots were at a disadvantage since they were trained using the metric system. 'Even when we think about temperature, it's Fahrenheit or Celsius,' Kooiman said. 'It's kilometers or miles. You know, everything about their training could be similar, but different. 'While the Imperial System may provide a conversion challenge for metric users, it likely was not a problem since the vast majority of the world excluding the U.S. uses the metric system. Brenner pointed out that the bigger difference was foreign pilots' reliance on auto-pilot, which he says they are often required to switch over to after take-off. This requirement is due to the fact that most crashes are due to pilot error. He added that he believes 'our U.S. pilots are very well trained' for 'situations like this' because 'they actually fly the aircraft when they're in the cockpit'. But Kooiman continued to ask Brenner if the difference in measurements were to blame, and if that makes international travel riskier. 'It's not just a difference in the way that we measure things?' Kooiman asked. 'Is it not as safe in that part of the world? Because our viewers may be thinking, "International travel, is it safe? Is it not safe?"' Brenner reassured Kooiman that air travel is the safest mode of transportation in the world, and there's nothing to fear about international travel specifically. This line of questioning earned Kooiman some flack on Twitter, where users critiqued her questioning the metric system's relevance in the disappearance. 'Most all media speculation right after an air crash is ludicrous but Anna Kooiman takes the cake,' one user wrote. Ah yes, the reason why the plane totally could have crashed is because they used the metric system like 95% of the rest of the world. The airline is from a country which uses the metric system, and those that constructed the plane, Airbus, operate with the metric system. What's with the use of saying "that part of the world" as well? I can't even... I think I've developed a headache from reading her words
December 29, 201410 yr ^^ Indeed Dave. (One of the big cable/satellite carriers dropped FoxNews recently. Ya know, I don't miss it)^^^Raf, I am right there with you about the headache.
December 30, 201410 yr I'm sad today. My mom died 9 years ago. It's really odd to think she's been gone that long, it still feels like yesterday sometimes. The 'anniversary' hits me differently each year too. This one it's hard.
December 30, 201410 yr ^ I'm so sorry !! Sleeping after a 24 hrs road trip, that wasn't supossed to be that long, felt like heaven.
December 31, 201410 yr ^ See? Looks like snow does come to Cali And there's 3 more hours to go till it's 2015
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