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Yesterday:
3rd day in Ohio, third day of cheese and ice cream. First up, a quick early lunch at Slyman's, thanks in part to aforce273's recommendation. That was some good corned beef, although we did cheat a bit and made 5 sandwiches out of one order of corned beef.

Afterwards, we attempted to go to the William G Mather Steamship, but it turned out to be closed on Mondays :(. Google said open 9:00 am – 5:30 pm on Mondays - that was such a lie -_-

To tide over the disappointment, we were due for some Ice Cream at Mitchell's. Cookies and Cream and Blackberry Chocolate Chip - delicious. A short trip to Lake View Cemetery, where James A Garfield was interred, followed. Honestly I'm kind of surprised there weren't little kids wandering around in the memorial and jumping over all the barriers. I guess visitors just know not to bring their kids there.

Finally to end the day, Gelato (La Pizzeria) and Pizza (Valentino's). I don't know what ingredients they add in the pizza sauce they use, but it was really, really good. Possibly the best pizza sauce I've had.

Today:
All three of my flights actually landed earlier than scheduled. Back at home safe and sound. Whew.

And now back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow - answering support tickets. And back to regular food. I sweat I've eaten more cheese and ice cream in the last three days than the last year...

9 years ago*

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EzraTheEmoDuchess

Unrelated, but the new Google Logo is Pretty Ugly
Once again, I’m not doing planes, I’m doing plane Incidents. If you want planes, here’s a Cessna, and here’s the Bücker Bü 182 Kornett, a replacement of the Luftwaffe trainer the Bücker Bü 181.
So there were two major incident with a flight 182, A bombing of Air India Flight 182, believed to be connected to the Narita Airport bombing, and the collision of PSA Flight 182 with Cessna 172 over San Diego.

Air India Flight 182

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Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal, Canada–London, UK –Delhi, India route. On 23 June 1985, the Boeing 747-237B serving the flight (c/n 21473/330, registration VT-EFO, "Emperor Kanishka") was destroyed by a bomb at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m). It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace. It was the first bombing of a 747 jumbo jet. A total of 329 people were killed, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 Britons, and 24 Indians. The majority of the victims were Canadian citizens of Indian ancestry. The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history. It was the deadliest terrorist attack involving an airplane until the September 11, 2001, attacks.[citation needed] It is also the deadliest aircraft bombing. The bombing of Air India 182 occurred at the same time as the Narita Airport bombing. Investigators believe that the two plots were linked, and that those responsible were aiming for a double bombing. However, the bomb at Narita exploded before it could be loaded onto the plane.
Canadian law enforcement determined that the main suspects in the bombing were members of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa. The attack is thought to have been a retaliation against India for the operation carried out by the Indian Army Operation Blue Star to flush out several hundred Sikh militants who were within the premises of the Golden temple and the surrounding structures ordered by the Indian government, headed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Though a handful of members were arrested and tried, Inderjit Singh Reyat, a Canadian national, remains the only person convicted of involvement in the bombing. Singh pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for building the bombs that exploded aboard Flight 182 and at Narita.
The subsequent investigation and prosecution lasted almost twenty years and was the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly CAD 130 million. The Governor General-in-Council in 2006 appointed the former Supreme Court Justice John Major to conduct a commission of inquiry. His report was completed and released on 17 June 2010. It concluded that a "cascading series of errors" by the government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had allowed the terrorist attack to take place.

PSA Flight 182

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Flight 182 was flying the daily morning service of California's largest feeder airline from Sacramento to San Diego, via Los Angeles. While it was on the ground at Los Angeles, on and off loading passengers, a single-engine Cessna 172, N7711G, took off at 08.15am from Montgomery Field, a municipal airport seven miles northeast of San Diego's main airport, Lindbergh Field.
At the controls of the Cessna was David Lee Boswell, who was taking instrument flying lessons from his instructor, Martin Kazy. Montgomery Field was not fitted with an ILS (Instrument Landing System), so Boswell flew the seven miles to Lindbergh, and began practice approaches, simulating landings from west to east. San Diego's airport was fitted with the latest ATC equipment, as well as a computer-controlled conflict alert warning system.
Boswell has completed two practice ILS circuits and was leaving the vicinity of Lindbergh Field when the PSA 727 arrived in the area.
Lindbergh Tower told Boswell to fly north-east and to stay below 3,500ft. He complied initially, and then, without informing the ATC controllers, he changed course, bringing his Cessna on to the same path as the oncoming jet.
PSA 182 had the Cessna clearly in view at 09.00. In the course of the next minute, the experienced crew of the 727 lost sight of the Cessna as it continued its climb. Assuming that they had overtaken it, they continued with their planned approach and descent.
Meanwhile, the conflict alert warning system began to flash on the screens in the San Diego ATC facility. Such alerts were a common occurrence in the busy Lindbergh control zone, so the tones were simply ignored. As the Boeing crew had already indicated that they had the Cessna in sight, the controllers took no further action, other than to notify the Cessna's crew once more of the jet's presence behind them. There was no acknowledgement and just three quarters of a minute later, the two aircraft collided.
The 727 was carrying more than six tons of fuel, much of it in the wing tanks. The explosion and subsequent fire-ball that followed the collision "felt like 200 degrees" according to one of the witnesses on the ground. Another said she saw her "apples and oranges bake on the trees."
Investigators determined that the 727 struck the ground in a high speed nose down attitude, while banked 50° to the right.
From the moment of impact with the Cessna, it took just 17 seconds to transform Flight 182 from a fully functional airliner in to a mass of burning wreckage spread out over four city blocks. The crash destroyed 22 houses and numerous cars in North Park, and killed 7 residents, as well as the 144 people on board the flight. The tower pilots onboard the Cessna were also killed.
It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first accident involving fatalities. The death toll of 144 makes it the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history. Until the crash of American Airlines Flight 191, it was also the deadliest plane crash in U.S. aviation history.

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9 years ago