Flight Air France 447: Collective Negligence & Incompetence?

Extracts from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10577643 : Start extract Air France voiced its concerns to Airbus months ago about the reliability in icy conditions of the model of speed sensors, or "Pitot tubes", fitted to the A330-200...

Post-LTTE Sri Lanka: Let those at home have the final say

My commentaries are non-prescriptive for I have no direct voice in the matters of Sri Lanka.  Those who have stayed home, stood strong and weathered this storm of terrorism have the final say, whether they are Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims or any other minority.  As I...

The Post-LTTE Dire-spore-a

If this was the decomposition, the definition would be something like: dire  (dr)adj. dir·er, dir·est 1. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous spore  (spôr, spr) n.1. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly...