We are stardust...

Perhaps a few stories from the Flight 800 accident about reporting is illustrative. The press seemed generally to refuse to mention the copilot, Mr. Kevorkian because of other notoriety associated with the name, specifically in regards to a procedure that may have transferred fuel differently than usually known. International flights also, by the way, dump fuel after achieving altitude, which I was told by Lufthansa, evaporates before it gets to the ocean surface. NBC News in New York on a Saturday reported that it had gone out and purchased one of the suspect pumps in the fuel tank, produced a pump removed in the aircraft graveyard and vouched for the fraying of the wiring, with a receipt for the pump placing it on their news desk in front of cameras. What has been the follow up? The memorial will have to be moved to where it was originally planned, moved by officials, insisting on their plan and not the one of the concerned relations of the victims, to escape beach erosion, other than that, I heard not one plane has had the recommended changes that resulted from the investigation. Nor has the sighting of burning "meteor" debris sighted in the vicinity, on another flight, been investigated. I find it interesting myself having learned that a great number of meteors fall within a large ellipse in western Saudi Arabia, and no one's figured why the orbital mechanics work that way.

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