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Altimeter in Black Hawk helicopter may have malfunctioned before DCA mid-air collision
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board gave their first on-camera briefing in almos…
Here's an excerpt from one of my posts, above:
My question is simply this: How did anyone involved in this transaction know for certain that what the helicopter said was accurate? It was night after all, and there were quite a few aircraft in the im…
@Mark- Well, we didn't have to wait very long at all-
White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf o…
I'm very sorry on this, Mark- I religiously avoid any site or social group that is likely to involve tracking or other intrusion into my life. I'm sure that they would find it pretty boring- it's just the principle of the thing.
No google, no faceb…
I believe that the entire discussion above can be reduced to this excerpt:
If capitalism and democracy are not fundamentally dependent on each other, then there is no crisis “of” them as a coherent system.
The capitalism part seems to be doing just…
I guess that Hondo doesn't know that Congress authorized the CFPB to try and prevent a repeat of the abuses which caused the 2008 financial disaster. It's pretty obvious that Trump and Musk don't really care about a repeat of 2008.
I guess that Hondo doesn't know that Congress authorized the CFPB to try and prevent a repeat of the abuses which caused the 2008 financial disaster. It's pretty obvious that Trump and Musk don't really care about a repeat of 2008.
I guess that Hondo doesn't know that Congress authorized the CFPB to try and prevent a repeat of the abuses which caused the 2008 financial disaster. It's pretty obvious that Trump and Musk don't really care about a repeat of 2008.
I guess that Hondo doesn't know that Congress authorized the CFPB to try and prevent a repeat of the abuses which caused the 2008 financial disaster. It's pretty obvious that Trump and Musk don't really care about a repeat of 2008.
A never-grown up 6th grade bully. Look- the world's always had a lot like that... nothing new there.
My wrath is with the 50% or so of my fellow citizens who actually want a man like that to be their president. A great many of those fellow citizens…
With respect to my Schwab experience an "ordinary" check (an unexpected inheritance of several hundred thousand dollars) was accepted for deposit, and placed into the sweep account. It was around 4pm PST, after the NY market close. I then walked hom…
You should be able to trade immediately upon depositing a check...
I've done that a couple of times at Schwab- walked into a branch, deposited a check into the brokerage sweep account and then immediately placed a MMF buy order for that amount.
Since we're in this arena, let me note that if I have a scheduled transfer inbound to the Schwab checking account from our JPM checking account it will take several days before the transferred funds are usable.
However, if I make the transfer into …
"Has Schwab removed that restriction on MM? "
No, MM funds are sold at the end of the trading day, and the proceeds are not available until the morning of the next trading day.
Despite the monumental effort, about 5,600 workers died from disease and accidents during the US construction phase of the canal. Of these, the great majority were West Indian laborers, particularly those from Barbados. The number of Americans who d…
The DuckDuckGo browser and Amazon both use some sort of mild AI to summarize return results and customer evaluations respectively. So far I find it somewhat helpful.
Excerpts from a current NPR report:
Three days after the midair collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, air safety investigators said on Saturday that they are still wo…
I really do not understand one aspect of this disaster: the apparent lack of positive identification of the passenger jet by the helicopter.
From what information has been released up to this point, the tower seems to have asked the helicopter if t…
Businesses, shoppers brace for higher prices if tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports start Saturday
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
Businesses and shoppers in the U.S. are bracing for higher prices on everything from gasol…
@Gary1952: Hope you aren't needing gasoline, major appliances, a flat-screen TV, automotive products, or lumber to build a home, because taxes on anything imported from Canada or Mexico will increase by 25% starting tomorrow.
Note: It's some 50 years since I was an Air Traffic Controller, so the radio technology may have changed. But if it is still the same, civilian air traffic and military air traffic use completely different radio channels (frequencies). The controlle…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the airplane involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with an army helicopter near Reagan airp…
Here are excerpts from a report by NPR. For those interested, the NPR report includes approximately 30 minutes of recorded Terminal Approach Control (TRACON) radio traffic at Reagan International prior to and through the collision.
Minutes before t…
WASHINGTON—Just after 8:47 p.m. on Wednesday, an air-traffic controller at Reagan National Airport relayed a seemingly ordinary inquiry and instruction:
“PAT25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” he asked a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, requesting …
