WASHINGTON – On at least a dozen recent flights by U.S. jetliners, malfunctioning equipment made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying,federal investigators have discovered.Good thing I'm not planning to fly anywhere anytime soon!
[AP Enterprise: Airspeed systems failed on US jets, By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer, 7 Aug 2009]
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour! He's so quaint and so terse, both in prose and in verse; Yet though people forgive his transgression, There are one or two rules that all family fools Must observe, if they love their profession. [Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan]
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