Thought I would drop this one on you before getting ready for the big soccer match:
"Stowaway can’t believe he survived" AP June 19, 2014
Yeah, neither can I.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Somali immigrant who survived an arduous flight to Hawaii stowed away in a jet’s wheel well says he was trying to reach his mom, a refugee in Ethiopia who says her teenage son broke down in tears this week during their first call since his ordeal.
Ubah Mohammed Abdule, who is seeking US asylum, told the Associated Press Wednesday her son, whom she hasn’t seen in eight years, cried on the phone Tuesday and told her he thought she was dead.
‘‘He says, ‘Mom you are not dead for sure? I thought you died in a boat trip. This is incredible news.’ Then he became silent for a moment. Then he cried,’’ she said.
Yahya Abdi, 15, said Tuesday that he ran away from his Santa Clara home, hopped a fence at Mineta San Jose International Airport in April, and climbed aboard the Hawaiian Airlines plane because it was the first flight he could find heading west, and he wanted to go see his mother. Yahya, who described crouching in the wheel well and covering his ears at takeoff, made his first public comments during a Google chat on Tuesday to KPIX-5 .
‘‘It was above the clouds, I could see through the little holes,’’ Yahya said, who gave short, stilted answers.
When asked if he can believe he survived the trip, Yahya paused several seconds: ‘‘Uh, no.’’ But he also said he wasn’t scared.
Yahya survived the flight at 35,000 feet despite low oxygen and freezing temperatures. Video footage from the Maui airport shows him dropping to the tarmac about an hour after the jet landed.
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You know, so much stinks coming from the corporate media these days, from hoaxes and crisis drills being reported as actual events to false flags of every kind that this stinks. Stinky, stinky, stinky.
Sorry.
"Houston air corridors redesigned" Associated Press June 19, 2014
HOUSTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it completed a redesign of the Houston region’s highways in the sky, the first of several national projects designed to save money, fuel, and time while cutting pollution.
Houston is the first NextGen project to be completed, part of a transformation of the nation’s radar-based air traffic control system into a more modern satellite-based program. The redesign of the region’s freeways and exit ramps in the sky, partly through better use of GPS technology, is expected to reduce up to 648,000 nautical miles flown annually, saving up to 3 million gallons of fuel and reducing carbon emissions by as much as 31,000 metric tons.
Then what is with the near daily chemtrails?
Related: WTF, FAA?
Beyond that, you can see my scolding of the jet-set is warranted even if the cry of global warming is not.
Houston’s project was one of 14 infrastructure projects nationwide selected by the Obama administration to be fast-tracked. It was launched in January 2012 and was expected to take three years to complete, but by streamlining reviews, the FAA said it was able to wrap it up in 30 months.
‘‘The NextGen Metroplex we are implementing today is an example for the entire country of the difference we can make with the help of the federal government and the way we get it done — six months ahead of schedule,’’ said US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
The cities chosen for the national program have multiple airports and heavy traffic — including North Texas, Washington D.C., northern California, Atlanta, and Charlotte, N.C. Seattle was a forerunner to the national infrastructure program with its project Greener Skies, which was completed in 2013.
Since January 2010, part of the satellite-based control system has been used over the Gulf of Mexico, providing radar-like services to areas that previously had no coverage....
Anybody seen anything about Flight 370 lately?
Probably the fault of the pilots and passengers.
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Preparing for departure, folks.
Speaking of the devil.... Search for missing Malaysian plane shifts south
