That Citation is a single pilot aircraft, believe it or not. If it is not being flown as an air carrier and just as a privately owned jet, then many such planes are certified as single pilot. It is actually very common.
I don’t really see anything here other than a malfunction of the pressurization system or an airframe failure, resulting in a rapid depressurization. In such an instance, the pilot has only a few seconds to quickly don his oxygen mask. If not, he will loose consciousness and then expire.
The autopilot probably flew the instrument approach it was on at the destination airport. If the pilot was expired, the jet would have flown right over the airport at altitude and just kept flying. It ran out of fuel and crashed in Virginia.
You may remember the Payne Stewart Lear jet accident? I suspect this is very similar. It is a tragedy, but probably not a criminal or terrorist act.
I think I know what the Cold War was about, but I don’t think the Cold War started because Russia sailed a surface Navy/warships to within ~50 miles of the US Coast. If that was a thing, I am not aware
I do think that I recall the US being close to starting a nuclear war because Russia was sailing ships towards a different country, I can’t imagine if they sailed them up to the US what would have happened. Surely the US would have responded.
And I’d wager that response would be more than piloting one ship to within 150 yards of another ship and calling it a day
The Russians routinely ran their boomer subs up and down the east coast. Oh what was that litter incident in ‘61 under JFK? yeah the Cuban missile crisis. Nothing to worry about there. I remember doing nuke missile drills in school. Don’t fool yourself, china has their missiles directed right at the US and the have the Silkworm missile designed to sink our ships. Our media is too caught up in LGBTQ-rstuvwxyz crap and tearing the US down to give a sh1t about mobilizing the citizens to defend their own country.
PS. The libs have learned that they can bribe the American people with their own tax $$ to get the vote for them.
Why is the left so dead set on pandering to roughly 2.8% of the US population? Do I wish them any harm, no. But you would think if you wanted to make $$ or get the majority of the vote, you’d be appealing to the other 97%.
Yes, that is what I was referring to…a foreign power ran ships close to a different country and the US was openly ready for war.
But when we run our ships right up on top of actual China, we say they are challenging us because they steered one ship close to one other ship and basically nobody even knows it happened?
If China acted now the way the US acted during the Cold War, what are the chances we’d be in open warfare right now?
Russia is STILL running their boomer subs up and down the east coast. What do you think those balloons that went over EVERY US military base did? Why are you standing up for china? You might think you aren’t but you are! Peace doesn’t come because one side played nice, nice to the other. Peace comes through strength and the other guy being afraid of you. We know we, our country, isn’t going to start a war, china knows we don’t want a war. China wants to displace the US and IS taking advantage of a senile old man that never should’ve been voted in. Bidden’s ineptitude is going to get our country in a war. He is a puppet just like Fetterman and camel-toe are.
The ‘Problem’ is that companies ‘DON’T LEARN’ from competitors mistakes/errors these day’s.
Somebody in ‘Our day’, when dirt was fresh burned their hand–they say to other cave dwellers’ UGH!
Fire Hot! Burn hand–we went ‘ugh! OK, no burn hand–we learned, we evolved (some of us).
Today these ‘people’ say ‘We are ALL INCLUSIVE!’ Everybody gets a seat @ the HIGH TABLE!.. lets sell ‘onesies’ w/ rainbow flags to parents of little toddlers, 98% of the population say Hell NO! The next company says ‘Hell yes!’ and they fall too! The simple fact is these confused people are what? 0.0005% of the population? trying to sell their sick agenda to ALL, but these companies want to be Mainstream they want to sell to ALL yet they don’t see the BIG PICTURE. Most parents don’t want to have ‘story time’ read to their kids that little Johnny wants to put little Pedro’s ‘Blank’ in his ‘blank’. Read by some misguided individual w/ a five o’clock shadow , a dress and no underwear on! Your current dictator say’s owning a semi-automatic rifle that fires (4) Billion rounds a second is "Just sick’… yet pedo joey thinks this is ok…? There is clearly something a foot here.
They tried the scam-demic, they tried to isolate US, masks, anti-social distancing blah, blah, blah, blah!
Now we see massive injuries and death to the citizens who received ‘the jab’…are we finally seeing their evil plans??? If spud-weiser, Kohls, Mis-da-Target, Jacquelin Daniels, Mchuman burger etc want to self destruct LET THEM. Next time a company tries this garbage… let them. A Billion here (lost) a Billion there (lost) and they will fall also , there are still places to patronize that we can all still exist today comfortably.
My only REAL problem is confusing the children, making them doubt what the creator perfected is EVIL.
When young minds BREAK, they may be broken for good. If you gender ‘reassign’ a kid how are they suppose to come back from that?. People talk about @ (18) a teen ager shouldn’t be able to buy a Gun or drink a beer… but they are OK with lopping off a body part @ (5)? …
Just makes me go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
Yes Boyz, I’m back.
I’m not gonna let the b-----ds win.
Did you see where Montana, I think it was, passed a law saying only pure blood could be given now at the Red Cross and other such agencies? What does that tell you?
I wouldn’t want blood with any Vax in it either brother! and neither do ‘they’…
They will push it on you, but they don’t want it for themselves because they know what’s in it!
For saber rattlers who think war with China would be a good idea and will teach them a lesson of some sort …
What is the end game here? War with our largest trading partner that makes much (most) of the stuff the world consumes and buys a disproportionate share of the government debt our government prints every single day. Good idea if what you want is a massive economic depression and another endless war.
Our military fought the Taliban for near 20 years and spent a whopping $1 trillion, left the country, and the Taliban immediately re-took control. That worked out well.
The Taliban had no economy, no organized military, used weapons it captured on the battlefield, was largely composed of illiterate people who took their world view from the 6th century. It is not the Chinese army by any stretch of the imagination. But a war with a modern Chinese army would be different. Right. I believe that.
So, would we invade, occupy China and expect to subdue a population of 1.4 billion people, expecting them to accept the “American way” with an army of maybe 1.3 million people? If we drafted every single person in the US between 18 and 44, and put them on ships to China, that would be 44 million people in uniform to occuply China and subdue 1.4 billion Chinese. Of course, the old people left behind in the US could produce all the guns, ships, planes and uniforms that an army of 44 million needed and continue to support a robust economy.
How about just raining nuclear bombs on Chinese cities killing beaucoups non-combatants to make them behave? That’s gotta work and turn Chinese into people who will respect and accept democracy … and nuclear winter will surely help.
A lot of folks watch WWII movies and think that war is just a matter of sending John Wayne to beat another nation into submission.
You’re right that we can’t simply march into China. The real question is what we’re willing to do in order to protect Taiwan. If- and this is a big if- we’re willing to defend Taiwan, then we’re probably looking at a massive war on the sea, in the air, and through cyberspace. I’m sure there would be boots on the ground, but it’s silly to think that we’re going to subdue China with tanks. It would be more about limiting their ability to operate.
Speaking of limiting the ability to operate, economic ties would be severed if a war broke out. Could China survive? Could the U.S.?
What’s the end game? Stop china from being a bully. Have you ever been bullied? How did you stop it? Out in the real world you can’t run to mommy and daddy for help. You have to stand up to them.
As someone once told me: if you find yourself too dependent on someone they can/will control you. Best to get rid of that person and find another or a way to do it yourself.
The collapse is coming regardless. How dependent do you want to be on china? The debtee is a slave to the debtor. I am not willing to be a slave to anyone, not even our own government.
I apologize if I missed it, but, what would you want or expect the US to do if China sailed a fleet of surface warship to 50 miles off the US (CONUS) coast? I think I have asked that multiple times but don’t have any answers, which is why I decided to take the hint and move on. Did I miss some responses?