An Iranian passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has crashed in north-western Iran, killing at least 77, state media report.
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High on the list of things for which the U.S. government will ruin your life, is selling spare plane parts to Iran. They’ve been having regular airline crashed because they lack the technological skill to make adequate replacement parts, and you or I or any other American or European would get tortured Bradley Manning style should we attempt to provide them.
This is the human face of our embargo, but hey, to the Democrats I say, Obama is the opposite of Bush, right? So this must be good. I’m not sure what to say to the Republicans and their dominant, Bible-thumping social conservative wing. They’re probably standing on their chairs applauding the awesomeness of the slaughter.
Roman,
This so misrepresents Christian Conservatives that it does not deserve reply. It sounds more like Michael Moore or Howard Stern dribble at the sixth grade level.
This is demagoguery rather than reason. How is this supposed to maintain or develop freedom?
Methinks you spent too much time on the left coast. What is wrong with letting those who freely choose to do so, believe in Jesus Christ, in there own ways? Free from Coercion?
This comment was right out of Marxist dogma, do away with God.
Ed K
It was posted herein, “I’m not sure what to say to the Republicans and their dominant, Bible-thumping social conservative wing. They’re probably standing on their chairs applauding the awesomeness of the slaughter.”
Now for a lengthy reply:
Nine months ago a plane crashed in Russia killing all. Recently, the Russian published an analysis that follows:
“of the great tragedies last year was the death of Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, and 95 others when the airplane carrying them crashed in dense fog over the Russian city of Smolensk in April. The Russian investigation has just released its draft report, causing uproar. The report asserts psychological rather than technical reasons for the crash.
Supposedly in 2008, the pilot Protasiuk had been in an eerily similar position in 2008. Then flying as the co-pilot, he looked on as his captain defied President Kaczynski’s order to make a risky landing in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. The President was reported by the Polish media to be furious, remarking that ”if someone decides to become a pilot, he cannot be fearful”. There were consequences: the President was forced to drive all day. The defiant captain never flew the President’s plane again.
When Mr Protasiuk himself became a captain, the memory of that day returned to him over Smolensk. The commander of Poland’s air force was right behind him in the cockpit and, investigators concluded from remarks he made to crew members, the memory of Mr Kaczynski’s wrath in Tbilisi was fresh in his mind. The pilot ”recognised the complicated and dangerous nature of the situation”, it concluded. ”On the other hand, there was a motive to complete the tasks and wishes of the Main Passenger.”
As the plane approached Smolensk, amid multiple warnings about the weather, Captain Protasiuk seemed to be recalling the President’s anger in Tbilisi, remarking, ”I’m not sure, but if we don’t land here, he’ll give me trouble,” the report says, citing voice recordings.
The investigators suspect another reference was made to Mr Kaczynski when a crew member said, as the plane descended, ”He’ll blow his stack if on top of all of this …”
To be a successful politician you need to have the warrior streak in you, you need to have the desire to win. Unfortunately this trait has a number of unfortunate side effects. Such individuals with a high P drive are prone to anger, hate to lose an argument, can be personally vindictive, and will hold a grudge. All of these behaviours were exhibited by President Kaczynski and demonstrate a lack of self-control (Step 2 of emotional intelligence). It is rare however that the lack of self-control leads to such tragic results and even rarer to see it quoted in an official report.
www.bnetau.com.au/blog/aussierules/how-poor-eq-killed-the-polish-president/6456
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Here was my comment to reply section:
Think about this incident when confronted by the question of right or wrong when pushed by persons in charge. If you let them push you to make wrong decision, you just might be more than wrong, but dead or if the wrong is illegal, in jail. It is better to make right decision and loose job rather than wrong and not be there tomorrow.
And here is comment by profession senior pilot with Fed Ex posted from his laptop:
” Greetings from Shanghai.
…. The pilot ”recognised the complicated and dangerous nature of the
situation”, it concluded. ”On the other hand, there was a motive to
complete the tasks and wishes of the Main Passenger.” ….
As my brother would say, “you can’t beat a man at his own craft”. Let
politicians be politicians, pilots should concentrate on flying when
they have a yoke in their lap. This was a bad piloting decision.
Politicians make bad decisions all the time with no personal
consequences.
It was a bad piloting decision by a Captain concerned with things
other than “get craft A from point B to point C”.
Brad
To put defective planes in air is Iran’s top officials decision, it is not American Conservervative Conspiracy. To fly defective planes is pilots decison. Least the writer forget, airplanes fail in the air. As a former pilot, we were taught how to handle equipment failures. But, it was always understood by pilots that flying can be dangerous…
Take the liberal snowjob out of this crash.
Ed K