The damages to two elementary-aged schoolchildren with traumatic brain injuries that will affect the rest of their lives at a minimum are going to be so spectacularly high that I can’t imagine whatever track insurance might have been purchased would even come close to covering them.  

Yeah, that plane will be scrapped completely

If we had listened to Jimmy Carter, worked on efficiency, occasionally put on a sweater when it got cold instead of jacking up the heat 50 years ago, instead of following reagan’s “fuck it, burn everything and crank the AC” policy and all the GOP policies of ignoring the climate ever since, can you imagine how much…

Give that CRJ a canard and it’ll instantly look like a Burt Rutan design. lol

That’ll buff right out.

Yeah no shit. Same for me. I am also going to assume the plane is DONE. As in, probably a total writeoff.

Damn, the initial description I saw was that they had a light scrape type event not a full on tail removal.

I’ve spent a lot of time on many tracks. I’ve even had an accident very similar to this Mustang, hitting a barrier and ending upside down

When we have flown mapping missions over DC, we have had USSS riders on the plane to make sure that we don’t deviate from the flight plan and can take over the controls if needed by force. That whole area is a mess of airspace approvals.

I kinda miss Eastern, even though I never flew on it. But when I was a kid, this is the airline that family members usually flew on out of Louisville, and I always went to the airport to see them off because airports are cool, I definitely recall seeing their planes.

I don’t think you’re defending the couch-fucking dipshit. I think you’re blaming the bad-flying dipshit.

National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and Avenger air defense systems deployed on the ground.

Well, you see...when a man loves a woman very much...

Why not both lol. Fuck him but it’s not like this was his direct doing.

Counterpoint: fuck him.

Fun fact: Eastern Air Express is a division of the reanimated corpse of Eastern Airlines.

Who hires the pilots.

It is important to point out that this was done under an entirely different contract. SpaceX and Orbital Sciences were awarded Commercial Resupply contracts under an earlier program. This did give SpaceX a valuable leg up on their competition, and is one of the reasons that they bid less on the Commercial Crew…

I live in the area. Really dumb move. Every pilot in and out of DCA knows this, which sometimes makes avoiding that airspace kind of a thrill-ride for passengers.

The guy’s house was “hit by 20 bullets during a gunfight” earlier in the year. How is the house still operating as an AirBnB? What has to happen for the platform to delist the house? Why did the guy not file a civil suit over the shooting? How is the parking infraction his biggest concern? How could he possibly be the…