Canada is adopting standards aimed at helping pilots land on slippery runways
It will be the first aviation authority to apply benchmarks to help improve pilots’ ability to judge how or even whether to land. Do they go far enough? By Christine Negroni
January 28, 2021 Southwest Flight 1248 skidded off the runway in 2005, killing six-year-old Joshua Woods (Historic Collection/Alamy)
Fifteen years ago, a Southwest Airlines flight landing in snow skidded off the runway at Chicago Midway Airport. It blasted through a perimeter fence, landing atop a car carrying the Woods family.
Six-year-old Joshua was in the back seat. Next to him were his brothers, one-year-old Matthew and four-year-old Jacob. Their mother, Lisa, was in the front passenger seat. Their father, Leroy, had been driving.
Tail end of East Coast snowstorm spreads light snow over central Maine
The Augusta, Waterville and Skowhegan areas appeared to have missed the brunt of the storm as only a few inches of snow fell and no serious accidents were reported by mid-afternoon.
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Crews clear the walkways at Colby College in Waterville on Thursday. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel file
Central Maine escaped the brunt of a nor’easter that blew through New England on Thursday and went out to sea south of Nantucket.
Augusta’s deputy fire Chief David Groder, who is serving as acting chief, said Thursday afternoon that the fire department had received a minimum of weather-related calls.
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A Creative Convening by Kerry James Marshall, having just moved house. He describes the book to me as a collation of “a number of Black intellectuals talking about Kerry James Marshall’s work in relation to the Black space; creating Black space, and how to challenge things in the 21st century”. His choice of reading comes as no surprise considering Woods’ introspective thoughts in recent years; trying to understand what it means to be a Black photographer and to showcase Black experiences on a world-stage, whose lens is too often focused on its trials and tribulations. “I look at it as me contributing to the positive outlook, or the positive role of what Black culture does and plays into society.”
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