Audio: SSU uploads evidence of terrorists and Russian side concealing flight recorder

Russians will be Russians...

U.S. Airline Flights at 10-Year Low

Who wants to be groped and stripped virtually naked just too board an airplane? People used to look forward to flying, but we live in a different world now. Much is due to the government's expansion of TSA power. To get on an airplane now, you may have to survive a virtual strip search by leering TSA agents, have your junk felt up by some pervert in a uniform and risk having dishonest TSA agents steal your valuables while they are searching your luggage. Then, you are practically held prisoner by the flight crew. Anyone who objects or asserts their basic human rights faces arrest. Driving never looked do good.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines in 2011 operated the fewest number of flights since the hijack attacks on New York and Washington depressed air travel and accelerated the industry's worst-ever financial downturn, government figures on Tuesday showed.

The Transportation Department said major airlines, their chief low-cost competitors and the biggest regional carriers, recorded 6.08 million departures last year. Takeoffs were not that low since 2002, when they totaled 5.27 million.

Reduced operations and good summer weather, especially in the East, helped airlines post a 79 percent on-time rating in 2011, unchanged from the previous two years.

The overall number of flights by U.S. airlines have steadily declined since 2008 when the recession dampened travel demand. Most recently, stubbornly high fuel prices have prompted airlines to further cut capacity to reduce costs and maintain higher fares. Keep on reading...

Muslim Derangement Syndrome?

Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., interfered with the flight crew and yelled, “You’re all going to die. You’re all going to hell. Allahu Akbar,”on a Southwest flight. Strangely, the pilot thought this was a problem and landed the plane where Ali Reza Shahsavari was taken into custody.

Somewhere in the heavens above Amarillo, angry shouts rang out from the back of Southwest Airlines Flight 3683.

“You’re all going to die,” a man dressed in black screamed at passengers Tuesday afternoon. “You’re all going to hell. Allahu Akbar,” translated as God is great in Arabic.

Federal authorities arrested Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., onboard the Boeing 737 after pilots made an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 3:30 p.m. He is being held in the Randall County jail on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew.

 FBI statement,

"The FBI continues to investigate, but initial indications are that there was no terrorist intent. This guy is a U.S. citizen," said FBI Special Agent Mark White in Dallas.

No terrorist intent? These incidents are becoming frequent. (Here, Here and Here) I guess there must be a new psychological disorder that needs to be diagnosed. Muslim Derangement Syndrome.

Meet the Hero of NW Flight 253

His name is Jasper Schuringa:

The passenger who tackled a suspected terrorist on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 said Saturday that he's "happy" to be alive.

Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam...

Hat tip Wizbang.

Video: Passenger Describes Heroic Effort to Stop Terrorist Attack

A passenger describes the attempted terrorist attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

"We're gonna be in the Hudson"

Those were the exact words the pilot of the 'miracle flight' told air traffic controllers right before ditching the plane in the Hudson River. The flight attendants yelled, "Brace! Brace! Head down!" You never want to hear that from your flight attendants. Neither of them realized they were in the water. The decision to make a water landing was the best decision Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III will ever make.

'Miracle' pilot tells why he ditched in river

Larry Neumeister,David B. Caruso, Associated Press

(01-18) 04:00 PST New York - --

The pilot of a crippled US Airways jetliner made a split-second decision to put down in the Hudson River because trying to return to the airport after birds knocked out both engines could have led to a catastrophic crash in a populated neighborhood, he told investigators Saturday.

Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III said that in the few minutes he had to decide where to set down the powerless plane Thursday afternoon, he felt it was "too low, too slow" and near too many buildings to go anywhere else, according to the National Transportation Safety Board report of his testimony. Excerpted from www.sfgate.com

Actual video of Flight 1549 skidding into the Hudson

At about the two minute mark you can see US Air Flight 1549 skid into the Hudson. Then, you can see the passengers climb out onto the wings. This video is 10 minutes long.

Brace for impact: Hudson river landing video

Here is the best video I could find relating to the Hudson river crash of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. This emergency landing was a "miracle."