1. “[...] officials have been quick to accuse the short runway”: Congonhas has the same size as Chicago/Midway and Washington/Regan runways.
2. “[...]dangerous weather conditions”: there was a drizzle when Airbus landed.
3. “[..] insufficient security precautions”: They should be more precise. What precautions should be done to the pilots set the Thrust Lever at the right position? What Airbus did with this issue? What american airlines are doing with this issue?
4. “With this latest tragedy, questions are now being raised over the military's competence in handling this responsibility”: this was not an issue in Congonhas accident.
Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine.
He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel.
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Wrong Facts in this new:
1. “[...] officials have been quick to accuse the short runway”: Congonhas has the same size as Chicago/Midway and Washington/Regan runways.
2. “[...]dangerous weather conditions”: there was a drizzle when Airbus landed.
3. “[..] insufficient security precautions”: They should be more precise. What precautions should be done to the pilots set the Thrust Lever at the right position? What Airbus did with this issue? What american airlines are doing with this issue?
4. “With this latest tragedy, questions are now being raised over the military's competence in handling this responsibility”: this was not an issue in Congonhas accident.
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