AIRPLANE ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK CITY II
That accident really got my creative juices going.
No matter how hard I try, I can't ignore the television coverage of the accident. They are to be commended with the speed with which they arrived at the scene and started on site coverage. This was truly timely and on site news coverage.
But there was certainly something lacking in the knowledge of the people they were interviewing. They must have been waiting in the closet to be interviewed. There were former heads of the NTSB who demonstrated there lack of knowledge about anything aviation. There were nothing but political appointees and bureaucrats. It is no wonder D.C. is so screwed up if this is the caliber of people who are running our Government. There was the Representative from Brooklyn, who is well known for his condemning the present administration for their use of harsh methods of interrogation and their use of wiretapping because we are depriving our enemies of rights. Rights that they never had. These things save the lives of our troops and our countrymen. But he was very quick to suggest the curtailing of private airplane traffic. This is akin to banning cars from a road if there is an accident on that road. At that rate they would have to shut down all New York City. None of the people ever metioned anything about LGA's TCA.
All the networks had to do was go to Teterboro Airport and interview a flight instructor and they would have had the full story.
Kudo's to Mayor Bloomberg, who waited until he had the facts of the accident and who demonstrated his knowlegde of aviation affairs around his city.
No matter how hard I try, I can't ignore the television coverage of the accident. They are to be commended with the speed with which they arrived at the scene and started on site coverage. This was truly timely and on site news coverage.
But there was certainly something lacking in the knowledge of the people they were interviewing. They must have been waiting in the closet to be interviewed. There were former heads of the NTSB who demonstrated there lack of knowledge about anything aviation. There were nothing but political appointees and bureaucrats. It is no wonder D.C. is so screwed up if this is the caliber of people who are running our Government. There was the Representative from Brooklyn, who is well known for his condemning the present administration for their use of harsh methods of interrogation and their use of wiretapping because we are depriving our enemies of rights. Rights that they never had. These things save the lives of our troops and our countrymen. But he was very quick to suggest the curtailing of private airplane traffic. This is akin to banning cars from a road if there is an accident on that road. At that rate they would have to shut down all New York City. None of the people ever metioned anything about LGA's TCA.
All the networks had to do was go to Teterboro Airport and interview a flight instructor and they would have had the full story.
Kudo's to Mayor Bloomberg, who waited until he had the facts of the accident and who demonstrated his knowlegde of aviation affairs around his city.
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