Down in Green River for another assignment when the phone rings. A plane went down not far away, at the airport north of Moab. All nine passengers and the pilot dead. Raced over to find the scene closed while bodies were removed.
Back to Green River for the original assignment, then a shot of the Bandidos in Moab and, once the bodies were removed, we were finally able to document the scene. Trib reporter Christopher Smart braved a couple of crazy bumpy sandy washes in his 4×4 and we made it in (photo below taken one-handed as we bounced around). Hopefully his vehicle wasn’t too trashed from the trail. Our mileage reimbursement probably won’t cover this kind of abuse.
Maybe it was the rush of getting over there and juggling two other shots, but it wasn’t until I was telling someone about it the next day it hit me. Ten dead.
Moab – Ten people were killed when a 1975 Beechcraft King Air A-100 plane crashed about 2 miles from Canyonlands Field airport. They worked for Southwest Skin and Cancer/Red Canyon Aesthetics & Medical Spa.
FAA has been failing badly and continuously at least since Bobby Sturgell started working there as a protected legacy case in 2003. Yesterday FAA purposefully crashed its own NADIN (National Airspace Data Interchange Network) computer system, to suppress flight plans, lack of them, and other FAA electronically-documented failures.
FAA also just crashed its own NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) computer system a few months ago, too, in an effort to suppress dispersal headings and flight plans – see:
http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com/2008/05/newsflash-stroker-ace-bobby-sturgell.html
Friday, May 23, 2008 – “Newsflash!: Stroker Ace Bobby Sturgell Crashes NOTAM Before The Other Feds Get To It!”
On the heels of at least 3 separate U.S. plane crashes this past weekend – ten (10) perished in Moab Utah, three (3) died in a Las Vegas crash into a house, and a pilot grounded his plane on a baseball field in Texas – what’s clear is that FAA’s air traffic control system is a total failure. Now FAA is engaging in spoliation of evidence, the electronic equivalent of ‘ol-fashioned Fawn Hall shredding, to delete incriminating material one step ahead of FBI and other criminal authorities who are once again on FAA’s heels. FAA is a trailer-park criminal enterprise. FAA Acting Administrator “Bobby” Sturgell must be relieved of his post NOW.
Regarding the 10 who died in Moab, Utah this past weekend: We continue to pray for them and their families and continue to mourn their loss. In their memory, this country needs to restore safety to our broken air traffic system. Future lives must be saved by repopulating FAA and ejecting Bobby Sturgell from office.
Quiet Rockland just published a hand-hewn list of over 1,200 FAA e-mail addresses on its website – and asks that you please consider using them for your own purposes:
http://removesturgell.blogspot.com
FAA’s e-mail address formula is fairly simple. The ‘minds’ of FAA management are even simpler. This past weekend, FAA wanted America to “celebrate” FAA’s 50th Anniversary as fostering “the safest transportation system in the history of the world”. (Verbatim quote, FAA Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell, speech entitled “The Credit Goes To You”, Washington, D.C., August 21, 2008):
http://www.faa.gov/news/speeches/news_story.cfm?newsID=10274
FAA and failed Acting Administrator ‘Bobby’ Sturgell still persist in wanting you to believe that we are somehow in the ‘safest period in aviation history’. As within the last few days, there are 10 more victimized innocent decedents in Moab, Utah whose souls will now testify exactly otherwise. Anyone who is outraged like me at the continuing criminal malfeasance of the Failed Aviation Agency, may consider voicing that outrage directly to the people that comprise that ersatz federal agency acronymed as FAA, and directly to failed FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell.