Perhaps He Should Have Taken A Language Tape Course
Instead
It looked to passengers for all the world like a suicide note in
the making. A 60-year old Japanese man aboard United 1184 from
Chicago O'Hare to Columbus (OH) was seen scribbling the words
"suicide bomb" on a piece of paper just before take-off.
Aviation and economic experts are fast becoming worried that the
federal savings and loan bailout of the 1980s could soon be
overshadowed by another, even bigger financial scandal. America's
pension plans are in trouble and it could cost We the People
billions to bail them out. Chief among them are the pension plans
run by major airlines.
It's the sound airline dispatchers dread.
BZZZZZZT.
When that sound is followed by a blank or locked-up computer
screen, you can bet it's going to be awhile before dispatchers get
any rest.
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