If only you could deliver power via a dump truck.

As someone who flew out of Anchorage International on Thursday and will be flying back soon, I'm getting a kic...

Actually, no. No I'm not.

Page B: As someone who flew out of Anchorage International on Thursday and will be flying back soon, I'm getting a kic...

Actually, no. No I'm not.

I wouldn't worry.. The blackouts came at 7AM and 9AM .. and everyone knows the only time there is activity at that airport is between 11PM and 2AM

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue..

Two "Airplane!" threads in a 24-hour span? Surely you can't be serious!

black_knight: Two "Airplane!" threads in a 24-hour span? Surely you can't be serious!

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

Seeing as I just went to a Senate Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee hearing on December 10 and listened to FAA Administrator Randolph Babbitt ramble to Senator Begich (D-Alaska) about how Alaska is the best in the US when it comes to air traffic control (when questioned about previous ATC outages in the lower 48), I'm gonna get a kick out of these replies...

First there were dinosaurs

On the case.

black_knight: Two "Airplane!" threads in a 24-hour span? Surely you can't be serious!

What's the vector, Victor?

Over Macho Grande?

The_HR_Issue:

I wouldn't worry..


"Nervous?"
"Yes."
"First time?"
"No. I've been nervous lots of times."

whyerhead: Over Macho Grande?

No, I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande

coco ebert: Oh, how I loved that meme.

Coco, do you like movies about gladiators?

rackrent: /did that say clogs?
//you know, up there in Alaska, and all that, you see, we have all sorts of, you know
///And also

What ever happened to Sarah Heath anyway? You'd have thought a hottie like that would have eventually gone somewhere.

FTFA The FAA had batteries on order for some time but had some trouble with the manufacturer or supplier, Lewis said.
Now the agency has scrambled to get batteries and expects to have them in town Tuesday and installed Wednesday, Lewis said. "There's certainly no neglect," he said.

I am afraid to think what would constitute neglect in his book.

So let me get this straight. There is a person responsible for keeping the batteries charged/fresh. He has placed an order. He has received some information from the manufacturer indicating that the order can't be fulfilled on time. He now knows that the batteries are past their replace date and are not effectively operational. And yet nothing is done.

No. Certainly no neglect. No neglect at all...

This is what happens when the liberal media makes a great governor resign because they are picking on her and her children. Happy now, libtards?

"regular system fails due to technical glitch. one of several backup systems in place for such eventualities working just fine."

this would have been a more appropriate headline.

/ occasional jet pilot.

RandomTux: FTFA The FAA had batteries on order for some time but had some trouble with the manufacturer or supplier, Lewis said.
Now the agency has scrambled to get batteries and expects to have them in town Tuesday and installed Wednesday, Lewis said. "There's certainly no neglect," he said.

I am afraid to think what would constitute neglect in his book.

So let me get this straight. There is a person responsible for keeping the batteries charged/fresh. He has placed an order. He has received some information from the manufacturer indicating that the order can't be fulfilled on time. He now knows that the batteries are past their replace date and are not effectively operational. And yet nothing is done.

No. Certainly no neglect. No neglect at all...

Very surprising.

Government transportation workers are usually so efficient.

/Posted from a government computer on government time.

Who the fark names something after a person who' still alive? God, I farking hate that.

Use the Post Office rule: no Young Elvis stamp until Old Elvis has been dead for 10 years.

TiltedKilt: Who the fark names something after a person who' still alive? God, I farking hate that.

Use the Post Office rule: no Young Elvis stamp until Old Elvis has been dead for 10 years.

What's worse, the old fart was a sitting senator when they named it for him. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

"There's certainly no neglect," he said.

Oh no, no neglect at all. What a Cluster Fark that place seems.


"In other news, todays arrival was delayed due to lack of functioning equipment. The FAA was able to use their cell phone to call the pilot and tell him to leave an hour later take his time arriving later that afternoon."

You know, because air traffic is heavy there, both pilots were inconvenienced.

*sheesh*
I blame Palin

Everyone knows if you suddenly need more power you plug in the energizer bunny. Does anyone, besides me, think that Energizer Batteries should be a corporate sponsor for Lance Armstrong's next bid for the Tour de France? The Shack and the bunny...they keep goin' and goin'...

BTW, if I stand on top of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport's control tower can I see Russia?

/What if I stand on Ted Steven's ego?
//What if I stand on Lance Armstrong's ego?
///What if I stand on a pile of slashies?

Also in: Rush Limbaugh starting a radio campaign for the airport to be renamed Sarah Palin International.

Airport expansion to feature a Bridge to... Baggage Claim.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: What do you make of this?

Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!

Noooooo

What Alaska was also up to that knocked out power in the first place.

I was hoping for more Die Hard 2 references...oh well, thanks Weezer808

Bomb Head Mohammed: "regular system fails due to technical glitch. one of several backup systems in place for such eventualities working just fine."

this would have been a more appropriate headline.

/ occasional jet pilot.

except that if you RTFA you'll note the backup systems failed too.

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4877825&IDComment=56851081#c568 51081">fredbox</a>:</b> <i>except that if you RTFA you'll note the backup systems failed too</i>

You mean like center handling approach duties or whatever it was? no, that didn't fail. But thanks for trying!

Why do I find it strange that they have named an airport after a politician who is still alive, and under indictment no less? Especially when the guy is such a colossal douchebag. Usually this type of honor is bestowed upon the departed after a lifetime of doing good work for mankind.

For some reason I was thinking this was Ted Stevens.

what?!? no 30 Days of Night references. And yesterday was the Solstice. I'm so disappointed. And yes, I know it wasn't set in Anchorage but still I know you bloodsucker fans are out there.

Anchorage airport is too busy with more important issues like making sure first class passengers have special treatment cutting in front in the TSA screening line, even though they pay exactly the same 9/11 tax as everyone else , $2.50 for each flight segment.
Who has time to make sure the batteries are charged?
OH ! maybe the employee who minds the line, doing nothing but waiting to coddle wanna-be bigshots, could check the systems.

Call Bruce Willis.

He'll just need one plane full of bad guys that he can crack a fuel cap on before takeoff....

Yippie Kai Yaaaah.....

/you know the rest....