U.S. News Archive

  • Let's Be Clear, Shall We?

    Let's Be Clear, Shall We?

    Recently the incident on October 21st where the Northwest Flight 188 overflew its destination airport (Minneapolis) while its flight crew were apparently using their laptop computers was in the news again. Shortly after the incident the FAA was faulted for failing to notify the military...

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  • Botched and Botched Again

    Botched and Botched Again

    Last Wednesday evening a Northwest Airbus 320 jet airliner from San Diego to Minneapolis (Flight NWA188) went for over an hour without talking to air traffic controllers (NORDO) and subsequently overflew its destination by 150 miles before its pilots became aware. (This is the second...

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  • Where are the Business Leaders?

    Where are the Business Leaders?

    The news are filled these days with banks, automakers and other major companies that are having financial difficulties.  Many of these difficulties are directly due to poor decisions by the managers and executive/financial boards of those organizations. A recent CNN business headline was that amusement/theme...

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