A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection.
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The same month an American Airlines Airbus A321 was being towed out of the gate at Los Angeles International Airport and smashed into a bus carrying passengers between terminals, injuring five.Article contentAfter Christmas, Southwest Airlines simply cancelled 71% of its flights. It blamed staff shortages due to storms.
This month, the defence department officials apparently allowed a series of surveillance balloons to enter U.S. airspace. President Joe Biden claims he was advised by the military not to shoot down a Chinese survival balloon craft as it crossed with impunity much of the United States.Article content The same shortfall is true of U.S. weapon arsenals. Between cuts in the defence budget, poor procurement planning, incompetent administration, and massive arms shipments to Ukraine, the military suffers dangerously low inventories of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, artillery shells, rockets, missiles, and mines.Article content
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