by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/29/2026 8:55 PM
"Miracle"
Why are those ditzy bubbleheads always bleating about "miracles"?
This is why:
Because you're a ditzy bubblehead and you cannot cope with reality.
All you have is your ridiculous superstition
You cannot think for yourself
People died violently and horribly
Was that a miracle for *their* friends and family?
No, I am certain it was not.
Why was the survivor a "miracle" by some sort of "angel" that - must have - flapped its wings down from the clouds up there and rescued that person
The airport worker has to live with the trauma for the rest of his life. Was that a miracle for him?
Bubbleheads and their idiotic "miracles"
Why do I believe this is another instance of the improbable?
Because it seems to me a perfect example of the improbable.
You will choose to ignore it because it requires independent thought, which is not your capability.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ntsb-probes-controller-part-broader-investigation-into-laguardia-airport-2026-03-23/
Reuters
NTSB probes controller as part of LaGuardia airport collision investigation
By David Shepardson, Allison Lampert and Dan Catchpole
March 23, 20264:48 PM PDT
"Stop, truck one, stop," the controller said, shortly after approving passage across the runway. The arriving plane then hit the fire truck.
According to separate audio posted by liveatc.net, an unidentified controller who appears to be the one involved in the crash, told another pilot after the collision that he had been dealing with an emergency earlier.
"I messed up," he said in a shaken voice.
The pilot of the other plane, which had seen the crash, responded "Nah man, you did the best you could."
Newsweek
Flight Attendant Thrown, Still Strapped in Seat Survives LaGuardia Crash
Published Mar 23, 2026 at 04:16 PM EDT
A flight attendant who was still strapped into her seat survived being thrown from an Air Canada plane that collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Family" - tv series Season 4 Episode 2 - 10/01/1990
Jean-Luc PICARD: Is this brotherly concern?
ROBERT Picard: No. Curiosity. What did they do to you?
PICARD: You know what happened.
ROBERT: Not precisely. I gather you were hurt. Humiliated. I always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do.
PICARD: You don't know, Robert. You don't know. They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy, and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them! I tried. I tried so hard, but I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough. I should have been able to stop them. I should! I should!
ROBERT: So, my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Quotes
Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough!
by me, Kerry Burgess, APRIL 05, 2012
I mean sure, I think now remembering what I had wrote earlier in my blog about the cornfield. I was on that flight, while everyone else had ducked and covered and I was still sitting up so I could maintain custody of the prisoner, then everything went kind of fuzzy for a second, even more so, and then the quietness was staggering. I have written about that before, that sense in my mind of sudden quietness, and that was me sitting precisely as I had been on the airplane and there was nothing around me but tall stalks of corn and I was still sitting in the same airplane seat but I was all alone in that cornfield and it was suddenly blaring and maddenly blaring quietness. It drives me crazy now just trying to thing again about that.
From 4/5/2012 ( ) To 3/22/2026 ( ) is 5099 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/19/1979 ( ) is 5099 days
From 11/7/2025 ( debut "Plur1bus" streaming-video serial AppleTV ) To 3/22/2026 ( ) is 135 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/17/1966 ( the 1.45-megaton hydrogen bomb lost in a United States Air Force midair accident over Palomares Spain was found ) is 135 days
Reuters
Air Canada jet collision shuts LaGuardia; pilots killed, dozens injured
By Gursimrankaur Mehar, Bing Guan, Allison Lampert and David Shepardson
March 22, 2026 9:32 PM PDT
NEW YORK/MONTREAL/WASHINGTON March 23 (Reuters) - An Air Canada Express (AC.TO) jet collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday, killing both pilots, injuring dozens and closing the facility, authorities said.
The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its regional partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members and had departed from Montreal, said Jazz, which is owned by Chorus Aviation (CHR.TO) Jazz and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed that the pilot and first officer were killed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079368/releaseinfo/
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The Jesus Film
Release info
United States October 19, 1979
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/releaseinfo/
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Meteor
Release info
United States October 19, 1979
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/air-traffic-control-air-canada-laguardia-crash-
CBC
Air traffic controller’s 'I messed up' highlights human limits — but experts urge caution
Unsettling audio from LaGuardia crash raises questions about staffing strains, accountability and technology
Verity Stevenson · CBC News · Posted: Mar 29, 2026 1:00 AM PDT
Twenty seconds and a whole world passed between the moment a fire truck was cleared to cross Runway 4 at LaGuardia airport in New York on Sunday night and the instant it was plowed into by an Air Canada flight that had been cleared to land, killing the two pilots.
What happened in that third of a minute is now mostly public through the release of stark audio of an air traffic controller frantically trying to correct the mistake of letting the truck and the plane onto the same strip of runway.
Whether the same person made those two decisions and communicated them is still unclear.
What we know, and don't know, about the deadly Air Canada plane crash
The recording reveals the anguish of a calamity the controller tried to correct within that brief period. What it doesn't reveal is everything that led to the moment and the pressures and limits of task saturation in a timeframe that included another flight emergency.
"I tried to reach out to my staff. And we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up," he can be heard telling another controller afterwards.
The weight of a single sentence
Those last three words quickly became one of the most haunting elements of the crash that killed two Canadian pilots and injured dozens more. Aviation experts warn they risk oversimplifying what is potentially a more complex chain of failures.
"There was a lot of anguish and a lot of anxiety, and concern in his voice," said John Gradek, an aviation management expert and faculty lecturer at McGill University in Montreal.
Former FAA air traffic control specialist Mike McCormick calls it "probably the most significant and worst thing that can happen to a controller."
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have already signalled the crash cannot be pinned on a single mistake and that early findings point to a breakdown across multiple safety systems.
Thunderstorms earlier in the day created a backlog of flights during a midnight air control shift with typically lighter staffing. But zoom out even further and concerns about air traffic control staffing go back decades, as do worries over ground incursions at airports, as overall air traffic only continues to grow.
"It's easy to blame the individual, but we know that after studying so many incidents and accidents … the origins can date back sometimes months and years earlier," said Marc-Antoine Plourde, a Montreal-based airline pilot who for decades held seminars aimed at helping people overcome their fear of flying.
'I can totally see myself doing that'
At the time of the collision, two controllers were working in the tower cab, standard for an overnight shift, but one that requires them to juggle multiple roles simultaneously.
Homendy acknowledged those conditions have been a concern within the system for years.
"This is a heavy workload environment," Homendy said. "I would caution pointing fingers."
For some in the industry, the controller’s statement was both alarming and relatable.
"I can totally see myself doing that," said Jeff Nielsen, who hosts a podcast called Airline Pilot Guy and was a pilot for Delta Airlines for 35 years. "Feeling so responsible for what had happened and just needing to express it."
Nielsen added that most professionals would instinctively avoid making such a statement because of how public aviation airwaves have become.
"Most would would never even consider uttering anything that could sound like accepting responsibility or accepting blame," he said.
Echoes of 1968 Asoh defence
In 2021, Nielsen dedicated an episode of his podcast to a 1968 aviation incident in which a Japan Airlines pilot, captain Kohei Asoh, landed a DC-8 in San Francisco Bay (instead of on the runway) and reportedly told his co-pilot, "As you Americans say, I f--ked up."
Despite the blunt admission, Asoh was not found criminally liable. Investigators ultimately accepted that a combination of factors — including confusion, misjudgment and systemic issues — contributed to the incident.
The case has since become shorthand in aviation law for the idea that an admission of fault, on its own, does not determine liability.
But several experts say there are huge differences between the circumstances that led to the three words uttered by Asoh in 1968 and those heard on the air traffic control airwaves on Sunday.
"In the Japan Airlines incident, you have a pilot that made a mistake. He wasn't directed by someone else to do something," Hayden Hamilton, a pilot and the managing editor of the American Aviation Historical Society, told CBC News in an email.
"In the LaGuardia accident, I believe you are going to find a number of factors and failures that led up to the accident, as tragic as it is for the poor pilots."
'It's just human nature'
John Cox, a former NTSB investigator and aviation safety consultant, agrees.
"It's just human nature," Cox said. "In some cases of duress, people say things and sometimes they may not even be right."
Investigators are examining specific technical and procedural factors, including reports that ground vehicles involved may not have been equipped with transponders, and the complexities of radio communication in high-pressure moments.
Hamilton wonders why the fire truck entered an active runway without seeing that a plane was about to land and why ground collision alert systems failed.
For Gradek, the incident represents a worst-case scenario and will no doubt be taught as a lesson in how high the stakes are.
{from: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/air-traffic-control-air-canada-laguardia-crash- }
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:31 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 03/29/2026
