Skaters and coaches among victims in DC plane crash
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My point is, and we are clearly on different wavelengths, it should never have been brought up in the first place or someone should have realized/emphasised it had NOTHING to do with the crash flight.
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What a grieving period we have
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Not sure how this got so twisted; he had nothing to do with this flight. The fflight he missed/skipped got kicked off had nothing to do with the flight that crashed it was another flight is my understanding. I am not sure how this got so twisted.
Someone posted about the story that was circulating about the skater, mentioning that they weren't sure it was confirmed. Another poster answered saying that it wasn't false. Nothing more than that, there's nothing to get angry about.
There is nothing wrong with providing correct information if it's available. People mistook the skater not making a flight out of Wichita and thought it was that specific flight he had narrowly missed. It became a story in the media before people gotten the facts and the skater has likely been dealing with attention that they do not want when they're processing what has happened.
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I was listening to the news while out driving and it was said they were pushing more and more traffic through there for the sake of convenience. Far more than the airport was ever meant to hold. Advice was if you have to fly that way fly into Dulles instead.
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I also read the story on reputable sources who thought they were relaying the truth, and everyone has been reporting whatever information comes to hand, some of which always turns out to be wrong for benign reasons. That happens in chaotic emotional crises where people are desperate for information.
Good. All I'm thinking about are dead people.
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Spencer posted on Goldenskate, albeit briefly, as well.
So very very sad, so many young lives lost
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I have much more sand at the bottom of the hourglass than at the top. That said:
"Death is a heavy thing," a wise person once told me. I went to work, and the boss gathered us, and said, "John Nichols was killed in a car accident over the weekend." I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. If I was standing up, I would have had to hold on to something. I was 20, he was 18, and I just had him over for the first time that weekend. We were becoming good friends.
Please don't stuff your emotions in cases like this. Let them all the way out if you have to. Then again, you may not have to and that's o.k. too.
May these young souls, and all the other passengers, Rest In Peace.
"Death is a heavy thing," a wise person once told me. I went to work, and the boss gathered us, and said, "John Nichols was killed in a car accident over the weekend." I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. If I was standing up, I would have had to hold on to something. I was 20, he was 18, and I just had him over for the first time that weekend. We were becoming good friends.
Please don't stuff your emotions in cases like this. Let them all the way out if you have to. Then again, you may not have to and that's o.k. too.
May these young souls, and all the other passengers, Rest In Peace.
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I can't express my sadness just by words, neither I can offer proper words for such a tragedy, but I'm so deeply devastated about these horrible news!! I read yesterday the news both from USA and Italy reportings and I was crying.. I can't believe it! My prayers and thoughts are with the all the victimes, their families and friends! I'm so sorry for them!
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Right. Probably the majority of large aircraft what crash have stories of standby people, people who miss their flight, etc, but that is irrelevent.
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Especially since the day before there was a near miss between a copter and an airliner and the FAA did nothing. Thankfully, the pilot was able to do a successful emergency procedure called a "go around" where he/she firewalls the throttles, sucks up the gear when safe, and slowly raises the flaps. There is a point beyond where the plane is sinking to fast on its 3 degree glide slope where this wont work. The engines need time to "spool" up. Professionally, as an avionics tech, I would like to know if the Blackhawk had a radar altimeter as well as a barometric altimiter.
The day before the crash, I was reading an article about the staffing of the FAA and how ridiculously understaffed it already was only to then put on leave a bunch more staff with executive orders.
As tragic as this is I think this may become a common issue.
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a clearly shaken Scott Hamilton had nothing but good to say about the Russian World Champions turned coaches on the Today show this morning. He noted it doesnt matter about nationality (I have no idea if they became American Citizens like Yasa and Yuri) everyone knows what the others have gone through to get to this level. They were in the great tradition of Katia and Sergi. He talked about Dick Button also and Today did a good tribute to him also. As a fan of skating and as a pilot, there can be no greater tribute to these victums, skaters or not, than to impliment major changes in an organization that is handling way too many flights with a work force that is 10,000 people short. The cost of keeping 1 million people up in the air world wide at any given second just got too high.
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What does it take to keep a million people airborne at 30,000 feet across the globe?
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