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[Brent in Az]

An air India Boeing 787 taking off for London has crashed. 240+ on board. A mayday call was radioed by the pilot
I've been saying for awhile that it's only a matter of time before we see another major air catastrophe.

 

[Altitude sickness]

If you can’t take out the site, you take out access to the site, and you take out all the people with the knowledge and skills to advance the site…

There’s always more than one way to skin a cat…

The question is whether or not Israel has the capability to do those things..

Their intelligence agencies are top shelf, and their military is very experienced and capable.. but at the end of the day, they have limited resources and only certain tools at their disposal..

If we no shit think the Iranians are close to finishing the process that would get them nuke arms within a few years, it might force the US to get directly involved (or we’d have to make the conscious decision to just let them have the nukes)…

^^^^ exactly. This will not be a simple bombing proposition. Israel most likely will assassinate any impactful leading scientists or engineers they can before bombing. They will take out electric generation. Water supplies. All infrastructure associated.

As many know there is definitely weapons capable of penetrating the UG facility.


If Israel uses Nuke weapons. They will use the same isotopic signatures (stolen) as those found in the Iranian fuel. So it will simply appear that any fallout is from the facility. Not the Israel nuke weapon.

Or they don’t care and leave a note stating “who dunit”

 

[spike.t]

US to partially evacuate embassy in Iraq as Iran tensions rise

The move comes as US talks over Iran's nuclear programme appear to have stalled in recent days.

www.bbc.com

 

[mdwest]

The U.S is partially evacuating the embassy in Iraq, as well as personnel in other areas of the middle east.
Is shit about to hit the fan?

All non essential personnel are being pulled out of the region.

Consensus is that Israel is about to go kinetic on Iran, and since Iran is unpredictable (might strike other targets outside of Israel if they cant reach Israel, or they might try to pull other entities into the war by striking other targets, etc), we're pulling back from the region.

Only hitting nuke targets isn't really feasible for Israel.. if they intend on taking out Irans nuclear programs in any way they are going to have to disable Irans ground to air and their air to air response capability.. this wont be like the Israeli attack on Iraq's nuclear facility in the 80's (operation opera).. it will be much larger scale and much more complex (if it in fact happens)..

 

[Brent in Az]

Flaps?

 

[PARA45]

From what I have read the Iranians have basically said shove it....nobody will tell us what to do with our nuclear programmes....also one of the international atomic inspectors said he has visited the underground sites, and they are too deep to be reached by any bombs/ missiles.....but who knows...

Wait, you obviously didn't watch Top Gun Maverick.

Here is the link, just in case.

 

[PARA45]

Flaps?

Seems like the flaps where not configured for takeoff, and probably not enough air speed to stay airborne.

 

[spike.t]

Wait, you obviously didn't watch Top Gun Maverick.

Here is the link, just in case.

No probs then....

 

[spike.t]

Seems like the flaps where not configured for takeoff, and probably not enough air speed to stay airborne.

Read landing gear was still down when in the situation the plane was it should have been retracted....the person said it looked more like it was ready to land with tte gear in that position..but have to wait and see.....tragic anyway.....

 

[spike.t]

Here's a good one

 

[Wheels]

Seems like the flaps where not configured for takeoff, and probably not enough air speed to stay airborne.

No flaps. Wings are fully loaded in the video. Two mile long runway and pilot only uses half of it and yet Boeing stock is down 7%.

 

[PARA45]

From the video it looks to me the acft is taking off, and the flaps they seem like they were fully retracted. It also seems like the acft stalled from not enough air speed. We'll find out soon enough what really happened.

 

[Brent in Az]

An NTSB expert stated that the flaps were not deployed and the plane appeared to be/was under the power curve.
Flaps are one of the main items on a takeoff checklist.
Somebody really screwed up, or there was a mechanical failure of some type?

 

[Tanks]

And the Boeing Dreamliner had the best safety record.

 

[Tanks]

More tariff related stuff, I really don't care about the price. It is a wrist rest specifically made for my keyboard and not made here. So, ordered another manufacturer's product (.5" shorter in length) that will arrive this afternoon, paid $3 more and that one is also made in China. Go figure.

 

[Brent in Az]

Sadly, there are no survivors, and almost 50 on the ground perished as well.
A report of 1 british national survived?

 

[spike.t]

Sadly, there are no survivors, and almost 50 on the ground perished as well.
A report of 1 british national survived?

Just seen this...pretty amazing

British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say

Vishwashkumar Ramesh is believed to have survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people.

www.bbc.com

 

[spike.t]

China-Africa trade: Beijing ready to drop tariffs on imports from the continent

The move comes as the continent's exports face the possibility of high tariffs from the US.

www.bbc.com

 

[deewayne2003]

It is against the law to have automated equipment in CA (was passed in 50s). Even though they have had driverless cars for years in CA cities the legislature will not lift the ban for farms for “safety reasons”. It is as if they want the illegal labor.

There was a recent news segment about it.

Right.... It's almost as if big agriculture firms love cheap labor and the ability to offer little if any benefits; just like when Tyson laid off thousands of employees after Biden's border policies allowed in so many "asylum seekers" and then Tyson began employing them and giving free legal assistance to them.

However LAPD seems to have figured a few things out, notice how the horse mounted patrols have started snatching Mexican flags from people...... most likely an order to improve the optics of these "peaceful protestors" and also notice that over the last 24 hours American flags have finally made an appearance.

My new favorite horse and 40mm baton round video....

 

[PARA45]

An NTSB expert stated that the flaps were not deployed and the plane appeared to be/was under the power curve.
Flaps are one of the main items on a takeoff checklist.
Somebody really screwed up, or there was a mechanical failure of some type?

Heard on the news the Capt has over 8000 hrs of flight time. Not a rookie. Terrible mistake.