Leaving aside the moronic comments made by Trump at the press conference. I have another issue.
Why have many of the headlines and commentary both from the USA news outlets and British news commentators, who in my opinion should know better, kept on saying that the Plane had collided with the Helicopter?
It seems pretty clear to me that the plane was on the final approach to the airport when the helicopter flew into it!
Of course we will have to see what the black boxes say. But I wish there was better and more accurate reporting.
Fire! Fire! Fire! Normally, the main reaction would be to pour water over the fire to put it out. That is true in many circumstances, but the world has become a more ‘complicated’ place, for example, you would not want to use water to put out an electrical fire!
However, over the years, various substances have been created to deal with specialist fires, Foam, Carbon Dioxide, Halon Gas (though banned in the late 1990’s) to name a few. I remember in the navy in the 60’s/70’s the main foaming agent used was Ox’s blood!!!
Well it now seems that there are growing concerns arising from the use of foams containing PFOS and PFOA (perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid), as they have been discovered to be some of the ‘Forever Chemicals‘ that end up (via run-off )in our waterways after a fire has been extinguished. Here’s an interesting report that’ worth reading from the Guardian – 3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show.
It’s rained a lot over the past number of months and it was sad to see that Worcester Cricket Club ground is flooded again. We lived in Worcester for a number of years after I left the Royal Navy and where we purchased our first house.
I managed to get to a few games during our time in Worcester when Basil D’Oliveira played for them. Will they move to avoid future floods? Who knows? But discussions are moving along.
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