For burns I am unsure how much more the crew could have done. The damage and the majority of the heat are released in a minute or less. After that it’s a matter of avoiding infection and pain management for the next several weeks to months. If there is scarring, it can mean a lifetime of scar tissue care.

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I’ve seen other events where the pressure control door breaker was pulled for on-ground maintenance and somebody forgot to click it back on. It is almost certainly something that a maintainer screwed up and not a design or production problem. 

This story made the major networks due to the fact that passengers were found to have ruptured eardrums and bleeding from the nose, likely due to blown out restricted sinuses. They didn’t lead with Boeing. Apparently a similar failure, but without the damage, happens about a half-dozen times a year. 

The airport is at 4,000 feet, I think. 

I have loved open pit mining trucks ever since seeing them dwarfed by the wheel-bucket excavators.

There are some vehicles that weigh more than that which would be fine. It’s just not fine for a heavy co-player of a truck.

is an inspired typo.

They are supposed to deliver a train system. That includes rail and trains. Getting only the rail without train won’t fulfill the contract and no one will start building track without a train to be on it. 

The Titan sub was never found. Some disconnected pieces that used to be part of the sub were found. AFAIK no parts of the carbon fiber cylinder making up the hull were recovered.

He’s lucky he didn’t pit maneuver himself, but good job. Perhaps it’s time to put hands-on-wheel detectors on cars that aren’t self-driving to pull the power if there is no one steering. 

The truck driver volunteered to do damage to his own truck. That the insurance company is off the hook for whatever might have happened is some consideration, but I think the same Good Samaritan protection against things gone bad also prevents collecting on damages to himself.  

Yes. Philando Castille did everything right and a cop sprayed Philando’s brains all over his girlfriend and her 4 year old daughter, because the cop could not figure out a way to use words.

Reassure your cousin that those who are going to kill a cop kill them outright. They will already have the gun in hand before the cops walks up and will rapidly pop the door and start shooting as they see the cop alongside or wait for the cop’s face to appear at the window. A friend of mine lost a relative who was…

If it were a CT the baby could tear it’s own way out. 

To be fair, plenty of people died when the brakes in the Pinto were inadequate, or like my wife nearly died, because Ford failed to install a rear axle seal correctly and the one brake baked out everything but the tar converting the car into a Smuggler’s braking system. They look at every single part to determine the…

This is why rolling down a window before getting out is a good plan. Every time I need to leave the key in the car to do any sort of service the driver’s  window gets rolled down.

It’s just a matter of unbolting parts from the old frame and bolting them to the new frame; a similar process as was done in the factory. Electrical cables are likely the most annoying. 

It’s both knowing and having confidence that the knowing is right. I expect a bunch of people know, but are nervous about getting it wrong and so they won’t. Their brains just black out over the fear of blowing up the battery and they can’t come back to thinking about how simple it really is.

Eh, a lot of non-politician professionals get elected to the House of Representatives, it’s just the mouthy morons that attract the most attention. The Senate, on the other hand, is going to have a ton of back-stabbing lawyers who haven’t filled their own gas tank in decades.