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@dtconroe- Well sir, while I surely respect your thoughts on all of this, I must demur with respect to the "spousal" element of the conversation. From my many years of frequenting MFO I can confirm that this question is actually a very important one…
Following are edited excerpts from a current report in Aviation Week magazine:
The Jeju Air aircraft was initially on approach to Muan’s Runway 01. Around 6 min. before the accident, air traffic control issued a warning about birds in the area, acco…
I had no idea about that option. However, for our purposes I prefer to keep the brokerage cash account and the checking account separate (but both accessible from the brokerage page). It's hard enough to watch two separate accounts with respect to m…
"Why not use a brokerage for banking services?"
Actually, we do. Schwab Bank is very convenient as an adjunct to Schwab Brokerage. Very easy to transfer money back and forth and also very easy to keep track of our checking account. Frictionless ins…
We also have experienced ridiculous "delays" and a number of checks "lost" in the mail. Those checks were hand-mailed at the local post office. Today my wife went to that local post office to mail some checks and found it closed, no notice in window…
A report in the Washington Post says that "witnesses on the ground saw the plane hitting a flock of birds and flames coming from the aircraft." If this report is accurate, the flames would have come from one or both engines.
The pilot did request a…
"Of course the nose gear didn’t come down. Very obvious in the videos. But not a reason to overshoot & crash the plane!"
@hank- More than the nose gear. Much more. No landing gear at all- therefore no brakes. No flaps- therefore no help there. …
"one talking head today said the flaps weren’t deployed and they came in hot and overshot the normal touchdown spot."
Yes, all of that is true as far as I'm aware. But there's a whole lot more to the context of why those things happened.
@hank- The wine industry will be happy to learn that I've compensated for you by increasing my 5oz glass to 8oz. Yeah, maybe shorten my life by a week or so. At 85, who cares?
:)
@hank- At this point I'm inclined to be much more charitable. Sounds to me as if they lost all power at an altitude and configuration where they had almost no time or room to maneuver. Basically same situation as "Sully" Sullenberger when he ditched…
Further information from The New York Times:
Edited excerpts from the NYTimes report:
At 8:59 a.m., the pilot reported a “bird strike” and “emergency,” officials said. He told the air traffic control tower at Muan International Airport that he woul…
Because of their complete dedication to invasion of privacy I do not use any service or product of Google if at all possible. The only exception is Google Earth, as I am not aware of any substitute for that service.
The above information was retrie…
According to this source:
In the manifesto, Mangione wrote:
To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fa…
"Given the current rates and current trend, do you think you are going to be able to find an interest bearing investment of any duration paying 4+% in 6-12 months?"
I have no idea what interest rates will be in 6-12 months, but it sure seems to me …
Our CD/Treasury ladder is only out to three years, but I'm 85 and don't want to go too far out. Our Schwab SUTXX MMKT is currently at 4.35% and falling, the CD/Treasury ladder is at 4.81%. I'm replacing CDs and Treasurys as they mature, which will g…
Not in any way to support Russia but only to observe that all of the Russian attacks involved foreign (to Russia) aircraft which were physically located near, within, or over either Russian airspace or a Russian-involved military action.
Given the …
"Panama might want to sell the canal to the U.S. to hand somebody else the problem."
Fair enough- we can pay for a canal of questionable value with inflated US currency of questionable value.
"am unaware of any specific trump family member or crony looking to grift in this area."
Now you've done it... if any of them happen to read that at least one of them will make up for lost time.
