Wednesday 06-01-11

$5400 per hour Wasted Because of DHS and Incompetent People
Airplane annoyance leads to brouhaha in the skies over D.C.
I started thinking to myself, “no way, this can not be true.”

Sure enough, there’s enough there to make one go pound his or her head against a concrete block wall until the skin is raw or a concussion begins. The F-16 burns about $2700 per hour in fuel and that is a conservative estimate on my part based on current aviation fuel prices. So for this jaunt up into the night skies over Washington, D.C. and not counting the other planes diverted from landing into a holding pattern and the fuel they wasted, odds are because on moron reclined his seat into another moron who slapped his head, DHS and our current defense system wasted over $20,000 because political correctness is more important than national security.

Huh,do what?

That’s right. Instead of putting more AirMarshals on commercial flights and hiring real law enforcement officers trained to identify potential suspects, DHS and the DoD would rather waste taxpayer money on armed joyrides and free gropes of six year old children rather than addressing the threat of twenty-something Islamic radicals attempting action against our nation in this country. One day things will go “boom” again and we’ll all get groped regularly; perhaps just trying to take a tinkle at 4 a.m. in our own homes because after all, one might be trying to “bomb” the city sewer system at that early hour.

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Supporting article

Plane returns after fist fight between passengers
Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport for an emergency landing escorted by two F-16 fighter jets after a fight broke out between passengers.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says Flight 990 bound for Accra, Ghana, returned to Dulles in Chantilly, Va., just after midnight Sunday after a fistfight in the cabin.

Government officials confirmed that fighter jets were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

United spokesman Mike Trevino said Tuesday that the Boeing 767 dumped fuel as a safety precaution to lighten its weight on landing.

The Washington Post, which first reported the incident, reported that the fight began not long after takeoff when a passenger lowered his seat and a passenger behind him objected.

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