Today is finally the first day of spring so I guess I should
ignore the ice festooning the road and trees.
I’ll request the Cantankerous Friend to consult all his radical liberal
friends about this whole global warming thing – really could have used it this
winter.
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| Emerging Wall |
The snow is grudgingly giving ground at the house. The garden walls are starting to emerge and
there was even a patch of grass spotted in the back yard. This is the time we should be seeing the
first crocuses so I’m not all that excited, yet. This is the winter that just keeps on giving.
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| Back Yard |
At least I did get to return to my weekly ritual luncheon
with my first born (last born) son which provided the expected lift. My wife later castigated me for my limited recollection
of everything we talked about.
Apparently I should be able to recall every single thing said and
dutifully report same to her; going to have to work on that.
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| Son and I Yesterday |
My daughter sent me a link to a fascinating article
yesterday. She was at the airport
heading out with the son in law to California
for a wedding in Palm Springs
(well lahh…ti…dahhh!). She must have
been consulting things avionic because the well written article presents the first
cogent theory I’ve seen on what might have happened in the weirdness that is
the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner.
The well written article was authored by a pilot who
presents a convincing explanation based on the known facts instead of the wild
speculation we’ve been inundated with over the past couple of weeks. He posits an undetected fire could have
caused the sequential shut down of communication systems that all the experts
claims had to be done from the pilot seat.
When the pilot became aware of the fire his first instinct would be to
find an airfield capable of handling his huge airliner. The programmed left turn that’s mystified
everyone put the plane on a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000-foot
airstrip with an approach over water and no obstacles (the nearest airfield
able to handle the plane).
The author theorizes the pilot could not return to Kuala Lumpur because of
the mountain range that stood between them at that point. Once enroute to the alternate airfield the
crew may have been overcome by smoke of a fire they couldn’t control and the
plane continued on its programmed flight path until running out of fuel west of
Australia
which is where everyone seems to think it now lies.
Anyone who reads the blog regularly knows the absolute
disdain I hold the fevered approach taken in television “news” reporting. The wild theories and speculation we’ve seen
pale in comparison to this simpler but entirely too logical one. It just isn’t sexy or entertaining enough to
make the “news”. The article can be
found here:
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