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Justice is blind. At least, that’s what we’re told. But when judges’ rulings consistently align with the special interests that elected them — even to openly ignoring or rewriting the law — it’s pretty clear the blindfolds are off. This is what we’ve seen from our state Supreme Court. In 2015, the trial bar, unions, and Democrats spent more than $11 million in the most expensive state judicial elections in history at that time to sweep three open seats on the ...

Kevin Mooney AP Gov. Tom Wolf meets with the media at Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency headquarters May 29, 2020 in Harrisburg.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. On May 18, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that has enabled the governor to repeatedly extend emergency declarations without legislative input. Under current law, a governor’s emergenc...

I have often contemplated how I would define good leadership. A good leader knows how to surround themselves with trusted experts from many fields, consider their thoughts and suggestions, and formulate a plan of action. This type of leadership is lacking in Pennsylvania. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, all we see is a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach from Governor Wolf’s administration. Those experts around the table should be medical experts, emergency management person...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Individuals often resort to familiar turns of phrase when asked to describe the events of 2020, and particularly the COVID-19 pandemic.  Some call it a catastrophe or a nightmare.  Others opt for something more idiomatic—a dumpster fire.[1]  Over the last year, civil litigants asked several courts to consider the fitness of one particular description: is COVID-19 a “natural disaster”?  In at least three cases, the answer was...

Because it just -- the dots dont line up and its never happened like that before. so, as an investigator, we would never take that off the table. that stays on table as a possibility, but based on experience and knowledge of the systems, i would say thats very, very remote. and to do what richard said, to run around and try to inop all those systems, the pilots would see the cascading failures quickly. and with all the way to communicate, including the transponder, hitting the emergency code, th...

38,000 feet to 96 feet. the plane hit the mountains at 6,000. and the control the co-pilot activated requires several different turns and could not be programmed accidentally. when the cockpit doors lock, there is a keypad that would allow a pilot to get in using an emergency number. there is no indication the captain of the germanwings flight punched in that emergency code but even if he had it can be overridden by the pilot inside the cockpit. for now its all about motive, which is why investi...

The plane hit the mountains at 6,000. and the control the co-pilot activated requires several different turns and could not be programmed accidentally. when the cockpit doors lock, there is a keypad that would allow a pilot to get in using an emergency number. there is no indication the captain of the germanwings flight punched in that emergency code but even if he had it can be overridden by the pilot inside the cockpit. for now its all about motive, which is why investigators have now pulled o...

Malaysian flight 370 and now, if someone is in the cockpit preventing him to getting in, would that be recorded somewhere on the flight data recorder? >> only in that if they put the code in, it is going to put in a buzzer, and the buzzer is going to ring for 30 seconds, unless something is done, and they would pick it up on the cobckpit voice recorder. >> i want everyone to pay attention to this, because it is a airbus safety video, and it talks about what we are talking about. take a look. >> ...

The video also shows an emergency procedure for gaining access to the cockpit if the pilot is incapacitated. >> the captain moves the toggle switch to the lock position. the open light remains extinguished. now if we look at the code pad, the red light is lit, confirming the door is locked. be careful, automatic door opening, the code pad, and the buzzer are inhibited for five minutes. obtaining no response, she decides to use the emergency access procedure. on the code pad, she enters the emerg...

Buzzer are inhibited for five minutes. obtaining no response, she decides to use the emergency access procedure. on the code pad, she enters the emergency code, then presses the hash key. this triggers the timer for 30 seconds. the green light on the code pad flashes, indicating imminent unlocking. >> just before the crash, passengers could be heard screaming, according to the french prosecutor, as noted by lufthansas chief executive. when one person is responsible for 150 lives, it is more than...