From: tye syding <bn@wy.no>
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,sac.politics
Subject: Re: Can't Blame Trump! All 80 aboard Delta flight survive after jet
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:24:45 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:02:23 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-18 13:38, tye syding wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:20:42 -0800
> > Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2025-02-18 12:14, tye syding wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:58:34 -0800
> >>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> you can't determine blame simply by looking at where an
> >>>> accident happened
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Of course you can where intense meterological conditions exist,
> >>> especially snowy runways, crosswinds and sudden downdrafts.
> >
> >
> >> No. That isn't about "where" it happened.
> >
> > You've lost all your marbles, snow mexican.
> >
> > Weather is intensely place-correlated.
> Sure... ...but "correlation is not causation".
Bad weather was caused by location and atmospheric dynamics.
> Bottom line:
>
> We don't know why this jet crashed.
Yet.
But we can see that video and the right wing catch and know that
slippery conditions and high crosswinds played a role.
The NTSB workup will in time explain if the landing gear collapsed or
there were other factors.
For now - weather.