

Michael Stallings
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@Abort_To_Orbit
All views expressed are mine alone, and not my employer’s




The USS Gerald R. Ford is now out of commission for at least 12-14 months due to that fire caused by a fluff buildup in a tumble dryer....


🚨BREAKING: There has been a plane crash at LaGuardia Airport in New York, after an aircraft collided with a Port Authority vehicle that was responding to a separate incident. Both the pilot and co-pilot have been confirmed dead. That’s more dead under Trump in aviation accidents than Biden and Trump’s first term combined. Sean Duffy should resign.

WATCH: New video shows Air Canada flight crashing into rescue truck at New York airport


The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet were killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia airport, in an incident that closed the airport, authorities and US media said reut.rs/4rSf8zf



UPDATE: Analysis of tower audio and map of the airport indicates the aircraft was showing a speed of 114kts or 131mph. JAZZ646 (yellow line) was cleared to land on Runway 4. Truck 1 & Company (green line) requested to cross RW 4 and was authorized to cross by the tower at taxiway D (red circle). Tower then attempts to call Truck 1 and tells them to stop multiple times. The silences and unrelated traffic has been trimmed from this audio, provided by @liveatc.


So you mean to tell me, an airplane can go right through the World Trade Center that had steel structure beams of 4 inch plate every 40” using 12 different grades of steel with a yield strength of 100,000 psi but if the same plane were to run into a firetruck on a runway the plane is completely destroyed. Got it!



Oil prices tumbling


















American officials tell allies that the US will probably be forced to launch a ground operation to capture Iran's Kharg Island, according to two sources familiar with the matter - I24 News t.me/US2020US/40248