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Thursday, July 24, 2025
Seethe and Kvetch, Hasbara.
An Orthodox Jewish couple who were removed from an American Airlines flight over their body odor last year are now suing for discrimination.Yehuda Yosef Adler and his wife Jennie are seeking unspecified damages in the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Division.[.]The agent reportedly told the family that they needed to deplane because they had 'extremely offensive body odor,' but would only tell the Adlers that the direction came from the pilot.Offended by the sentiment, the Adlers expressed shock and informed the agent that they had never been informed about problems with their odor - adding that they had showered that very morning.[.]'The Adlers were seriously inconvenienced, treated as criminals, humiliated, insulted, defamed, missed appointments, incurred incidental expenses, and suffered trauma and emotional distress.'The family also takes issue with the airline's continuation of the narrative that they smelled. They claim that now when 'body odor' is searched online, results show the Adler name.The couple say that the defendants discriminated against them as Orthodox Jews, identifying their clothing with their religion and race.[.]'The Adlers suffered and will continue in the future to suffer trauma, stigmatization , severe mental and emotional distress, depression, despair , repugnance, embarrassment, public humiliation, damage to personal reputation, anxiety, fear and apprehension associated with airports and flying, loss of appetite, insomnia and migraines,' the suit reads.
Oh yes, the Adler family will suffer a lifetime of, "emotional distress." What a crock. "Oy Vaaay, our name appears online when people search 'body odor.' We now suffer from fear, distress, fear of airports and flying. Only money from suing American Airlines can soothe our humiliating health ailments resulting from our body stank."
"Fear of airports and flying." 🤣 Get Bent!
Look, if dozens of people independently conclude that someone has disgusting body odor, they have obnoxious and pungent body odor.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Biden Airlines? Unfortunate cyclist. Two short videos.
Both clips have audio. Make sure volume is on.
Biden Airlines:
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Friday, January 20, 2023
FAA Admits ‘Unintentionally Deleted Files’ Caused Jan 11 Mass System Failure, Nationwide Flight Chaos.
A red faced U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) admitted Thursday its staff “unintentionally deleted files” in a key computer system causing the January 11 commercial airline ground stop, which affected more than 11,000 flights and caused mayhem for travelers.
Reuters reports the FAA said the human error occurred while personnel were working “to correct synchronisation between the live primary database and a backup database”, and it had “so far found no evidence of a cyber attack or malicious intent.”
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Last week, a group of 120 members of Congress demanded answers from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the FAA about the system fiasco.
The lawmakers, led by new House Transportation Committee chairman Sam Graves, a Republican from Missouri, called the computer outage “completely unacceptable.”
So...it wasn't 30-Year old software like the FAA originally said?
Friday, January 13, 2023
30-Year old software blamed for FAA outage. Or...something else.
MSN: The software blamed for FAA outage is three decades old and years from an upgrade.
The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official.
This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told NBC News that he has asked the FAA, "to make sure that there are enough safeguards built into the system that this level of disruption can't happen because of an individual person’s decision or action or mistake."
Is Petey saying someone F'ed Up? But - but - the senior official said it was software.
Another un-named "senior government official." Do these people have names? Can we know who they are? They are on government payroll.
The MSN story and coverage of this story at NBC and CNN are copy/paste versions of the same story. Why, it's almost like they're parroting talking points handed down from Leni Riefenstahl's DNC Narrative Central!
Yet, al-Reuters reports the problem was a "procedural error."
The FAA said its preliminary analysis "determined that a data file was damaged by personnel who failed to follow procedures. The system is functioning properly." The FAA did not answer more questions about the specifics of the problem.
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The same file corrupted both the main system and its backup, said people familiar with the review, who asked not to be identified.
Enter, "people familiar with the review, who asked not to be identified."
So, we really don't know and it's unlikely we'll have a, or any, specific reason(s) for this fiasco.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Biden: No evidence FAA outage is a hack. Buttigieg: We're not ruling out a hack.
The Daily Dot: Biden says no evidence of cyberattack in FAA outage that grounded flights.
Breitbart: …Buttigieg Doesn’t Rule Out Hack Attack…
FAA computer outage or Russian hack?
NBC: Flights across the U.S. affected after FAA experiences computer outage.
Flights across the United States were affected Wednesday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration said it experienced a computer outage.
All flights in the U.S. were grounded following the incident, a source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News.
The FAA said in a notice on its website that its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system had "failed" Wednesday morning. A NOTAM is a notice containing information essential to workers involved in flight operations.
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CNN: US grounded planes as a ‘precaution’ after a North Korean missile launch.
Updated 1:37 PM EST, Tue January 11, 2022
Washington (CNN Business) - An unusual ground stop was issued to some pilots for a short period of time following a North American Aerospace Defense Command alert of a launch of a North Korean missile, a US official said Tuesday.
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“No warning was issued by NORAD HQ,” regarding a potential threat to the US, according to Captain Pamela Kunze, the chief NORAD spokesperson.
The Federal Aviation Administration, responsible for the nation’s air traffic control system, said the ground stop was to err on the side of safety.
The failure and incompetence of the Biden Admin conveniently always has Russia to blame.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
"Then the farting started."
Nightmare flight from Sydney to Qatar.
Every cough came with a lovely spray of saliva, and I promptly forgot my own hunger as I watched droplets - yes droplets, land on my meal.
Then the farting started.
As the flatulence continued, I felt like he would surely excuse himself and go to the toilet.
The smell filtered through the entire row, the 'sorry' woman from earlier looked like she was going to throw up.
Wave after wave of the toxic-smelling gas leaked out every 15 minutes or so for the 11 hours we were trapped on the plane.
Cleary is employed by the Daily Mail. The skeptic in me wonders why didn't she take any pictures of this? This would be the first airline incident where multiple people weren't taking pics or filming.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
De Plane! De Plane! Biden evacuated after plane entered airspace near beach home.
CNBC: Biden evacuated after plane entered airspace near beach home.
A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden’s Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.
The White House said there was no threat to the Biden or his family and that precautionary measures were taken. After the situation was assessed, Biden and his wife, Jill, returned to their Rehoboth Beach home.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the plane was immediately escorted from the restricted airspace after “mistakenly entering a secured area.”
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
OH NO! NO MORE MASKS!
Face-Diaper Wearing MaskTards are unhinged today. GOOD!
FOX News (via Archive): Federal judge blocks mask mandate for public transportation.
A federal judge on Monday voided the Biden administration's mask mandate for travelers using public transportation such as trains and airplanes.
The mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention applies to people as young as 2 years old, and had been set to expire a number of times but was recently extended to May 3 before Monday's ruling.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, came in a case brought in Florida federal court by Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. and frequent air travelers Ana Daza and Sarah Pope against the administration. Judge Mizelle determined that the mandate violated the Administrative Procedure Act by being outside the scope of the CDC's authority, was "arbitrary" and "capricious" and not going through the required notice and comment period for federal rulemaking.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Smokers Appear Less Likely to Be Hospitalised with COVID-19.
I knew smoking would have an upside.Smoking increases susceptibility to respiratory infections and media reports suggest that it may increase the risk of being infected with acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 is known to use the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as a receptor for cell entry, and there is evidence that smoking down-regulates ACE2 expression in the lung and other tissues.
Their findings, though surprising, appear to be supported by the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These too show that – contrary to expectations – relatively few smokers and ex-smokers have been hospitalised with COVID-19.
CDC is gathering information about underlying conditions and Covid-19 diagnoses. Smoking status numbers are *very* interesting.https://t.co/iv0FpfPSHy pic.twitter.com/5ojmWcpu91
— Phil (@phil_w888) March 31, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Al-Hadath reports Iranian air defense accidentally shot down Ukrainian flight 752. Philipine President Duterte states if any Filipinos hurt or killed in Iran, he will side with U.S.
Boeing 737 crashes near Tehran. No indication of survivors. Iranian media blames "technical issues".
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Scorpions on a plane.
A passenger on board a domestic United Airlines flight was stung several times by a scorpion, and had to be treated by medical staff upon landing.
An image of the scorpion on board Thursday's flight from San Francisco to Atlanta was first published by TMZ, which reported how the unnamed female passenger started feeling a stinging sensation on her leg.
When she went to the bathroom, it got worse and she saw the creature fall from her pant leg after she was stung several times, according to USA Today.
The creature ran along the floor and caught by cabin crew, TMZ reported.
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"The customer was transported to a local hospital. We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being."
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The airline would not say how the scorpion got on board or whether there would be an investigation into the incident.
USA Today noted that this was at least the third time this year that a scorpion has made its way onto a flight.
In February, a passenger filmed a12-inch long dark black arachnid as it crawled out an overhead bin on a Lion Air flight to Indonesia.
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A month later, a scorpion stung a passenger on an Air Transat flight from Toronto to Calgary, CTV News reported.
In 2017, a business class passenger on a United Airlines flight from Houston to Calgary was reportedly stung by a scorpion as he was eating lunch.
Richard Bell's wife Linda told CNN that the creature fell from an overhead bin and landed on his hair, saying, "As he was grabbing it by the tail it stung him.
Monday, June 10, 2019
How long can you stay inside a cigar tube?
The story doesn't mention facilities for showering or cleaning-up after using the gym. But then, everyone on airplanes these days is so clean and smells so fresh what's a couple of sweaty, unwashed gym-rats? And fussing, tantrum-inclined crying, whining children? That makes a 21-hour non-stop flight an enjoyable and memorable experience that will be fondly remembered for life.Qantas has ditched the idea of installing sleeping pods on its planned non-stop flight from Sydney to London and is instead designing something for the entirely opposite end of the energy spectrum - a gym.
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"It will be four classes. It will have a new business class, a new first class, and for the economy passengers and premium economy passengers, we're looking at what we're calling a fourth zone for people to stretch, to exercise, to hydrate on," [said Qantas CEO Alan Joyce].
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The airline is as confident as ever that it can turn the 21-hour flight into one that passengers enjoy. Feedback from those who have flown what is currently its longest flight, Perth to London, has been more positive than it had anticipated.
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In order for regulators to be satisfied with the working conditions on the 21-hour flight, there has to be a plan in place for how a pilots time and tiredness are managed.


























