Re: plane crash

Oh, man, I'd've been angry too.  That's no laughing matter.  Sure their
worried about their precious little pocketbooks, but I'm a WHOLE lot more
concerned about my saftey, and they would be, too, if they *really* want to
regain the public trust.  Witholding information is way stupid.  It just
make people fill in the blanks in all kind of creative and unpredictable
ways.

Adam who likes to know

So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink.
In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
-------Suzanne Knutzen




>From: The Gray Wizard <dbell@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: plane crash
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:54:11 -0500
>
> > From: Adam Walker
> >
> > There's just been another American Airlines plane (a 767) crash in NYC,
> > Queens this time.  No word yet on deaths or whether it had anything to
>do
> > with terrorism, but the stockmarket has already dropped 2% in response
>and
> > there *are* buildings on fire.
>
>I was sitting at the gate waiting to board a plane at Washington-Dulles
>when
>this happened.  I was watching "CNN Airport News" which is apparently a
>precanned feed with only occasional live news reporting.  On one of those
>occasions, the news ticker reported that an AA plane was down and then the
>screen went blank.  When it came back on they were reporting the sports
>scores.  The incident was never mentioned again in the next 20 minutes.  I
>called my wife and she checked the "real" CNN news and told me what had
>happened.  This appeared to have been a deliberate, if clumsy, attempt to
>withhold this information from the passengers at Dulles.  Very
>disappointing.  I considered going back home, but after my wife confirmed
>that it was being called an accident, I decided to continue my journey.  I
>boarded the plane and arrived safely in Kansas City.
>
>I made the decision to fly because I had "some" information on which to
>base
>that decision. I resent the fact that there was a deliberate attempt to
>withhold that information from me and other passengers who, because of a
>lack of knowledge, were precluded from making a decision and blindly
>boarded
>the plane.
>
>Stay curious,
>David
>
>David E. Bell
>The Gray Wizard
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>ir gonar amis
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>
>Wisdom begins in wonder.
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