Predicting people will be stupid - probably not actually a stupid thing to do. ;)

Given the state of things, perhaps the “fix” to the ship involved baling wire. But we know that any copy editors that GMG might have employed bailed out a long time ago.

Kind of a misleading headline here - yes, the Kill Van Kull is just to the north of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge, but in order to have hit the bridge, the ship would have had to make its way to the end of the Kill Van Kull, make a 90 degree turn to starboard, and then drift on another mile or so. If the ship was in…

A bunch of small counties across Texas & Oklahoma did that too. The purpose of the declaration is just to open up funding & modify DOT permits, which in this case is for loads of extra tow trucks, highway cops, altering permits (if needed) for stuff like extra grocery/fuel deliveries, denying lane closures for roadway…

I thought she was smelling what The Rock was cooking

You conveniently forgot to mention if he’s eligible for those upgrades based on status. If so, there’s nothing wrong with this. I’m a NYer who hates Adams, but this is just cheap “journalism” and not even aviation related.

Why is this blog post here? This is barely even plane related. I would get it if he flew safely on the Boeing door-shedder or had landed an ailing plane single-handedly, but this smacks of you having a gripe with Eric.
I mean, I won’t pretend he is perfect, but would you really want that beret-wearer with the dog?

A crap situation all around, seeing as a guy died. Was he most likely not paying attention when he should’ve been? Yes. Is Autopilot pretty shit and in being so named, encourages Tesla owners to be overly reliant on it? Yes. Both things can be true.

Liability isn’t even close to being settled, and its not a simple matter because there are multiple parties in different nations.

I’ll wager that you won’t find a corporation anywhere that operates under the idea that using the cheapest/worst supplier, going the cheapest route possible, is best, and will “maximize profits.” Its common business sense that going this route invites more problems and, down the line, more cost.

Was the tour that overran a ship tour, or an independent one? Because if it was the latter, then every cruiser knows this is a risk. Ship departure schedules are set in stone, engraved in gold, they will leave without you. It is something you accept. The skipper will spit you right out on the quayside if your own…

You’re much better off doing a tour excursion with the cruise ship company rather than a private local tour since they’re much more likely to accommodate the all-aboard time. Same goes for cruise ship staff: if you miss the all-aboard time, you can get in pretty bad trouble including being fired. I’m sure this still…

I honestly don’t know what the solution here is as I don’t think any shipping company will have and insurance policy to cover something like this, nor enough money to cover something like this. This won’t cost 100's of millions, but easily billions. 

Checking if the flight you want to take is a Boeing vs Airbus plane is ludicrous. If you’ve watched Air Disasters, the Airbus planes have had a shit-load of problems also. But Airbus’ issues are usually for how their planes are too automated and the pilot doesn’t grasp all the nuances of the autopilot doing something…

These were both Airbus planes, their mating ritual is far less violent than the Boeing molting display used to attract a mate.

If you’ve been paying attention to the airline industry lately, you’re probably aware there’s been a string of incidents that Boeing probably wishes hadn’t made the news. Considering how much negative attention Boeing has attracted recently, including news that its CEO plans to resign, it would be understandable if…

It is essentially like watching full scale Battlebots duke it out.

What if the guy in the front loader decides to start bulldozing houses down? Got to stop him somehow.

What a childhood fantasy. Chasing a bad guy with a loader and flipping his loader over. Everyone I met would know that story if I did it.