‘PORTAGE TOWNSHIP, Minn. (Northern News Now) - A firefighting aircraft responding to a wildfire near Orr, Minnesota was struck by a bullet Thursday evening.’
Ahhh. Should have caught that. Yep, you get away with it…until.
And people at work (nice safe IT job) wonder why I get upset when simple things are missed because “Oh, I forgot about that”. If I have a legacy at this job it will be the checklists I created and the review/change control meetings I led that are now considered SOP.
And, you know what, I can live with that! 
I bristle a little bit when people describe a business meeting as “all hands on deck”. I’ve heard that phrase used in earnest; nothing at a business is that important.
Very cool! I’ve loved Corsairs ever since I watched Baa Baa Black Sheep on TV as a kid: Vought F4U Corsair - Wikipedia
Here’s one you don’t hear of everyday:
LGA runway 4/22 was closed this morning for sinkhole repair.
Ouch! OTOH …
The whole damned place is built on fill atop wetlands. It’s one continuous ongoing sinkhole from asshole to elbow.
Guy who shot water bomber claims he was hunting crows (which is legal while in season – but unfortunately for him it isn’t crow hunting season)
Brian
The mugshot certainly suggests a fine upstanding and discerning firearm safety-conscious citizen.
Multiple rifle rounds while hunting crows? You need to be a Hollywood hero-level good shot to hit a flying crow with a rifle. And if shooting at crows perched stationary above, you might want to be aware of passing airplanes in the background.
IOW, every word is self-serving BS.
Pettit said he was crow hunting on Friday. He told authorities he thought the fire bomber wasn’t following FAA regulations and was too close to his home, adding that he probably fired more than five times.
It’s stuff like this that drives defense lawyers insane. “Too bad,” is the cherry on top.
I’m not suggesting this fellow is a SovCit. At least not without further evidence.
But the similarity between him and SovCits is that his thought process is “Of course whatever I feel like doing is totally justified. Otherwise I wouldn’t have thought to do it.”
He told authorities he thought the fire bomber wasn’t following FAA regulations
Because not following FAA regulations totally justifies shooting at them.
Well if it was Florida, he’d just be standing his ground.
Why does he need to follow FAA regulations if he’s standing on the ground & not going flying? 
Oh look, a door to let myself out
For those of you under the mistaken impression that the legal situation regarding the French AF447 crash in 2009 where 228 people died must have been resolved many years ago:
NTSB has turned off public web access to the aviation accident database. If you search up an accident report, when you go to click on it to retrieve it or if you try to navigate to the docket page you get an error page instead. It says:
Oops.
My mom worked at Gibbs Flying Service at MFY when I was a kid. I remember the loss of ‘Shaky Jake’, N6228T. As linked, the report is available.
ETA: ‘Shaky Jake’ was a 1964 (?) Cessna 150. It would have only been eight years old at the time of the crash. That was ‘old’ at the time. Nowadays, most General Aviation aircraft are 50 or 60 years old.
What does this mean?
Lip reading.
I would think there’s legal reason to believe he represents a clear-and-present-danger to society. I think bail was set too low but IANAL.
Do accident reports sometimes include sonographs (like in the Merlin bird call identification app), to show things like engine noise, alarms, or flap retractions? I’d think this sort of info is better retrieved from the FDR, but it does seem to be what they’re referring to.