From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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 22:02:14 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-18 15:24, tye syding wrote:
> 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.
Actually, what was obvious that you've utterly failed to see is that the
descent rate was FAR TOO HIGH.