[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of an earlier post.] This first time I ever read about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was in one of the volumes from Will and Ariel Durant’s humungous Story of Civilization series, which … Continue reading →
…thought initially to possibly be from the missing Malaysian airplane is complete, and it has turned up nothing. Back to the drawing board. The linked article calls the fate of the airplane and its passengers “one of aviation’s most baffling … Continue reading →
Although the article is somewhat murky, it appears to be saying that Flight 370’s co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid switched his cell phone on and tried to make a call as the plane was flying low and off-course, moments before it … Continue reading →
…that Flight 370’s black box ping has been heard by a Chinese ship? We’ve had so many previous reports that have turned out to be unrelated to Flight 370 that I’m highly skeptical that this one will turn out to … Continue reading →
I saw an interview on CNN with Captain Brad Hawthorne of Houston, the fireman who was on the ladder during this video. His observation, “Most people will jump before they’ll burn.”
Continue reading →We won’t know its identity until some ship manages to snatch some of it up for analysis, but this sounds like the most promising find so far: New satellite images show a debris field of 122 objects floating in the … Continue reading →
According to “a new analysis of satellite data by a British satellite company and accident investigators,” that is. Although he doesn’t specify exactly what that data or analysis might be, I’m hearing on the news that it has to do … Continue reading →
The search for Flight 370 “has exposed the technological limits of satellites” which can see the globe but are not designed to hone in on every section of it equally. Understandably, they concentrate their strongest attention on parts of the … Continue reading →
When I turned off my computer late last night, it was only a fairly short while after the Australians had announced they were speeding to look at some debris located by satellite many many miles off their southwestern coast (and … Continue reading →
I just turned on the TV as some of the cable news networks were engaged in hyping the fact that Australia has announced that satellites have imaged two pieces of debris in the southern Indian Ocean that might be from … Continue reading →
And it will get a lot thicker before this is through. Captain Zaharie is now stepping to the forefront of authorities’ suspicions: Captian Shah [Zaharie] was an ”˜obsessive’ supporter of Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur … Continue reading →
Well, this certainly narrows it down, doesn’t it? What an “interesting” neighborhood: [Malaysian Prime Minister] Razak said countries located in the flight corridors that are now the focus of the search have been contacted so they can share radar data … Continue reading →