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SCA's avatar

I have made a donation. It is a very small amount but the number is of mystical significance and I hope it helps towards justice.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Thank you. Our niece was actually our deceased daughter's best friend, not a blood relative. We love her and her family all the same.

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SCA's avatar

Blood connection is not required to have the deepest connections of love and concern.

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scott m's avatar

Bill, I keep tellin' ya, people got no business flying around in the sky.

More info, please, on your donation request.

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

I saw a demo supposedly related to icing conditions. A 5 gallon pale of super cooled (very pure) water in liquid form, the demonstrator took a pencil and as soon as he touched the water the entire 5 gallons immediately turned solid. He indicated a plane traveling along and contacting a thick cloud/area of water would cause a similar freeze up which would be too think to be broken by inflating a bladder.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Were that true, no in-flight deicing system would work. Also, no aircraft could ever fly through a cloud at cruising altitude. Water requires a kernel to freeze - something to freeze around - which is why the zero impurity water can remain liquid at freezing temperatures. An aircraft can be the kernel. Except there is little zero impurity water at 40,000 feet. A dust mote will suffice for a kernel.

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ROBERT Incognito's avatar

Thank you 🙏.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Wow.

They must not have followed the checklist.

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Bill Heath's avatar

I have never read the pre-flight checklist, let alone in Brazilian Portuguese. From checklists I have read, it wouldn't describe the mechanism of how the deicing or any other system functioned.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

So the pilots were ill-trained?

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Bill Heath's avatar

Most likely. In the West plus Japan, a commercial airline pilot requires 1500 hours of flying. In the Third World, it's 150. Which explains why foreign airlines are crashing regularly while US- and Western-pilot flown aircraft rarely crash.

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