For those who don’t know the red and white zone references, it’s from the movie Airplane!:
And I was quoting Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. 
As your attorney, I advise you to have the cheeseburger.
Yes, I remember. I had lasagna.
“I’ll have the fish.”
“You’ll be swell, you’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate…!”
We’ve got to get these people to a hospital
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
so very, very, very disappointed in your response, LSLGuy! There was only one appropriate thing to say, & it had nothing to do with guns or cannolis
But that’s not important right now.
Surely, you can’t be serious.
Crew ejected, sent to hospital for observation, no indication of severe injuries. I imagine ejecting shakes things up internally. Aircraft crashed in the bay so no impact to the surrounding populace.
Great pictures of the aircraft, flight, landing of the:
If it’s an island, doesn’t that mean it’s entirely surrounded by water?
There’s a long sand spit/peninsula that connects it to the mainland and forms the bay.
“North Peninsula” doesn’t roll of the tongue so well.
Plus NAS North Island itself is not the entire island. So if it’s the base they’re referring to, which is what I presume, it’s surrounded partially by water and partially by the civilian part of the island.
You can get a great view of the Air Station (not to mention the rest of SD Bay) from Cabrillo National Monument.
Hadn’t heard of this before:
I just saw this reported on my local news.
In short, two women were asked to get off a flight from Denmark to the U.S. because of the weight of their wheelchairs.
A few of the things that were reported raised questions for me, although I’m not sure if they’re in the version I linked. They said there was something about the particular aircraft they were on that could not handle the weight of the chairs. Not sure if they meant the individual plane, or just the aircraft type.
The two women expressed surprise because they had flown to Denmark a few days earlier with no problems. Apparently someone from the airline said that shouldn’t have been allowed. Seems likely to me it was due to the winds; takes longer flying west, requires more fuel, less available payload.
The women use powered wheelchairs in their sport, and I assume when they’re travelling, too.
Are trans-Atlantic flights really operated so close to the limit of their capability that a couple hundred pounds (at a guess) is just beyond what the plane can handle?