by Jillian Gustafson | Jan 25, 2010 | Blog
Ethiopian Air Flight 409 Sadly, last evening, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 caught fire (from early reports) and crashed shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon. Airsafe.com has a good summary, as of Monday afternoon. It appears as though none of the passengers...
by Jillian Gustafson | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
Today and tomorrow on the Hill, there will be a few committee hearings so that legislators can better understand what went wrong leading up to the attempted bombing of NW253 on Christmas. They are (from GovExec): Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
by Jillian Gustafson | Jan 7, 2010 | Blog
President Obama has given his remarks on the preliminary evaluation by security and intelligence officials of what allowed a suspected threatening person onto a flight on Christmas Day (from Wired.com). A six-count indictment was issued against suspect, Umar Farouk...
by Jillian Gustafson | Dec 31, 2009 | Blog
In the week following the attempted bombing of Flight 253, we’ve already seen several stages in the government response to the incident. And, yes, I use the word “government” broadly, since we are talking about agencies, the executive and...
by Jillian Gustafson | Dec 28, 2009 | Blog
As we all now know, a young Nigerian man (also of Yemeni descent), on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas, brought explosives on board with intent to do greater damage than was actually done. And oh, has it revealed holes in the U.S. and...
