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“Tower stop your departures we got an emergency returning.”
“Who is it?”
“It’s 1529. He ah bird strike. He lost all engines. He lost the thrust in the engines. He is returning immediately.
“Cactus 1529 which engines.”
“He lost thrust in both engines, he said.”
“Got it.”
“Cactus 1529 if we can get it to you, do you want to try to land on runway one three?”
“We’re unable. We may end up in the Hudson.”
Listen to the audio here. Read the transcript here. (via aviation junky Marc Ambinder)
President Barack Obama is pressing for investments in infrastructure while relying on familiar tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to claim progress on the federal deficit in his upcoming budget.
Mitt Romney, the perpetually questioned front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, had a rough week. Three embarrassing losses to Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s non-binding contests led to questions about Romney’s conservative bona fides just in time for GOP activists, gathering at their annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to collectively grumble about it. But in two narrow, largely symbolic victories on Saturday, Romney reclaimed the headlines. Never mind the details. He was winning again.
