March 21, 2025

Investigators say a Delta jet descended too quickly before Toronto crash last month.

In releasing its preliminary report on the February 17th crash Thursday, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board noted that in the seconds before touching down, the CRJ 900 was descending at a rate of more than 1,100 feet per minute, which is nearly twice as fast as it should’ve been descending.
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In the final seconds before touching down at Toronto’s Pearson Airport at 2:12 p.m. ET in strong, gusty winds, the TSB report shows that the plane was descending at a rate of more than 1,100 feet per minute. The report notes the aircraft’s operating manual states that a hard landing is defined as “[a] landing at a vertical descent rate greater than 600 ft/min.”

In addition, the plane was banking at an angle of 7.1° to the right, and the pitch attitude was 1° nose up.

The TSB report says that as the plane touched down, the right landing gear fractured and retracted. The right wing then scraped the ground and broke off at the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel that caught fire as the airplane overturned and moved down the runway.

The preliminary investigation does not explain why the plane was descending faster than it should have, nor what role the strong winds may have had in the crash. Much of the information in the preliminary report comes from the aircraft’s flight data recorder. No information from the cockpit voice recorder was released.

Developing…

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green 22

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Begins Culling the Public Education Indoctrination Herd. “The Democrats are really going to be losing their minds over this, I mean more than usual. President Trump’s executive order aims a poison arrow directly at the heart of one of their biggest cash cows and the apparatus they use to dumb down the electorate.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green 78

JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: The Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think.

More nationwide injunctions and restraining orders have been issued against Trump in the past month that were issued against the Biden administration in four years. On Wednesday alone, four different federal judges ordered Elon Musk to reinstate USAID workers (something he and DOGE have no authority to do), ordered President Trump to disclose sensitive operational details about the deportation flights of alleged terrorists, ordered the Department of Defense to admit individuals suffering from gender dysphoria to the military, and ordered the Department of Education to issue $600 million in DEI grants to schools.

On one level, what all this amounts to is an attempted takeover of the Executive Branch by the Judicial Branch — a judicial coup d’état. These judges are usurping President Trump’s valid exercise of his Executive Branch powers through sheer judicial fiat — a raw assertion of power by one branch of the federal government against another.

But on another, deeper level, this is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy — the deep state, which has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government. This unconstitutional fourth branch has always been controlled by Democrats and leftist ideologues who, under the guise of being nonpartisan experts neutrally administering the functions of government, have effectively supplanted the political branches. Unfortunately, to large extent the political branches have acquiesced in the usurpation of their authority.

Trump, with a strong mandate from the American electorate, has resolved to wrest control of the government from the deep state. The deep state in turn has been forced to fall back on its last line of defense: the courts.

Read the whole thing.

I had a few thoughts on this and a couple of broader issues in this week’s VIP Thursday Essay, “Burning Down the House.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I, too, have thoughts on Trump and the courts.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green 130

SOMEBODY IS GOING TO GET SHOT IF THIS KEEPS UP. AND FRANKLY, THEY’LL DESERVE IT.

Posted at 8:11 am by Glenn Reynolds 248

HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE: THERE ISN’T ANY SAUSAGE, ACTUALLY.

Posted at 7:52 am by Glenn Reynolds 94

YOU DON’T SAY: Net zero could CRASH Britain’s economy with poorest in society hit hardest, leaked document admits.

A leaked Whitehall assessment has revealed that the UK’s rush to achieve net zero could wipe 10 per cent off economic growth by 2030 and potentially trigger a financial crash.

The never-before-published Government document contains stark warnings about the economic consequences of poorly planned carbon neutrality efforts.

It claims the transition to net zero by 2050 comes with the “potential risk of destabilising the financial system”.

The assessment, seen by The Sun, also suggests the poorest in society will bear the heaviest burden of these economic changes.

It contains stark warnings about the economic consequences of poorly planned carbon neutrality efforts.

The document was prepared by the Business and Trade Department in November 2023.

The report warns that hundreds of billions of pounds worth of assets worldwide may need to be retired up to 30 years before the end of their useful life.

This could cause market meltdown due to sudden drops in company values, affecting both British firms and overseas investors.

The document highlights that the financial risk of these “stranded assets” is “not yet fully reflected in companies’ values”.

Proponents of Net Zero know all this — it’s the entire point.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green 65

DEMOCRATS WANT TO SHUT UP REPUBLICANS. REPUBLICANS WANT DEMOCRATS TO JUST . . . KEEP TALKING:

That said, it would be nice if the Congressional GOP started to, you know, pass some legislation.

Posted at 7:18 am by Glenn Reynolds 41

March 20, 2025

GOOD IDEA. THAT’LL SHOW TRUMP. Europe Hatches Plans for Ukraine Peacekeepers Without U.S.: Defense chiefs from the ‘coalition of the willing’ discuss how best to put boots on the ground in Ukraine if there is peace. Well, maybe. It’s typical EU BS when you look past the headlines:

Western allies are trying to hash out a bold European idea: sending 10,000 to 30,000 troops to Ukraine to help enforce any eventual peace deal with Russia.

With cease-fire talks continuing with the Kremlin, defense officials from dozens of Western nations met in the U.K. on Thursday to hammer out details of how the so-called “coalition of the willing” led by the U.K. and France could help Ukraine deter Russia from attacking in the future. No U.S. troops would be involved.

The unusual talks—Western military allies getting together without the Americans—are the latest sign of the world’s shifting geopolitics. The pivot in U.S. diplomacy to accommodate Russia has left Western allies struggling with how to help Ukraine find a lasting peace, especially since they lack the military capacity that only the U.S. can bring.

Already, however, discussions among these allies are proving arduous. A major concern is that coalition troops could get sucked into a hot war with Russia without substantial U.S. support to back them up. There is also a debate over whether the Western troops in Ukraine would even be permitted to fire at Russians if there were an incursion.

Peacekeepers who can’t shoot are hostages. You want peacekeepers who can –and will — shoot if you want to actually keep peace. In the words of Keith Laumer, there’s noting so peaceful as a dead troublemaker.

Posted at 10:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds 309

OPEN THREAD: Entertain us with your trenchant, witty observations.

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THREAD:

Posted at 8:22 pm by Glenn Reynolds 189