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Lightingsky t1_j9npm57 wrote

Five employees of an environmental consulting firm heading to Ohio dead.

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tinypieceofmeat t1_j9ntdga wrote

That's crazy! What airport did they fly out of?

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spacepeenuts t1_j9obsfn wrote

Bill and Hilary Clinton Airport

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dnuohxof-1 t1_j9ogia1 wrote

I thought you were making a clever assassination joke, but no you weren’t kidding that’s the name of the actual airport they flew out of.

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noworries_13 t1_j9oifha wrote

Yeah.. Lots of airports are named after people..

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Tersphinct t1_j9osv1c wrote

Never heard of one named after a living couple.

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hotsliceofjesus t1_j9p75qm wrote

Houston’s George Bush airport was named for George H W Bush in 1997 when he was still alive. Anchorage, Alaska’s Ted Steven’s was still alive when it was renamed after him in 2000.

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Tersphinct t1_j9p7psd wrote

I specifically said “living couple”, not just a living individual. The latter I understand. The former seems strange, especially since they’re both accomplished public servants individually.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9pvn8a wrote

Both came up politically in the Little Rock area and are the most identifiable political couple probably in American history. It’s not out of the blue.

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Tersphinct t1_j9pygje wrote

I'm not sure what's with the downvotes. At no point did I suggest they don't deserve it. I just find it highly unusual, and I don't think I've ever heard of this thing happening before.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9q34q4 wrote

Yeah no idea why people are angry you don’t know, lol. It’s a fair question.

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widget_fucker t1_j9q1inb wrote

Yeah, we get it. It still rings a bit ficticious for some reason.

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jeremytheninja t1_j9q3azd wrote

Well yeah, there’s been 30 years of ridiculous anti Clinton propaganda. Just saying “the Clintons” makes like a third of white men over the age of 40 irrationally angry.

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widget_fucker t1_j9qkhmz wrote

A lot of women also despised hillary- even if they werent familiar with the “kill list”. She was seen as uppity, judgemental, a b-word. With her flexing her intelligence and confidence- spearheading healthcare reform in 94 and dissing the tammy wynette archetype, she was a clear threat to the traditional values that millions of women cherish.

Trump and clinton nearly split the white woman vote in 2016.

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widget_fucker t1_j9q1ere wrote

The downvotes are funny- On your comment above. I agree The name sounds made up. Who are these people in real life that would weigh in and downvote?

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kalpol t1_j9otlkj wrote

I used to drive to the airport from downtown Little Rock through this area. The airport is like, right there next to downtown, maybe 5 miles away? It's weirdly close. In between are a lot of scrapyards/metal recycling and industrial stuff. I remember one always had this mountainous pile of metal shavings, 30 feet high, like a mountain of tinsel.

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happy_halloweenie t1_j9p62m1 wrote

it's hilarious that 5 people died just because of the name of the airport?

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malphonso t1_j9p70hw wrote

Are we far enough removed, now, that people don't know about the Clinton Body Count nonsense?

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happy_halloweenie t1_j9p7cbs wrote

people do know but it's not funny and it's pathetic to think 5 people dying is hilarious

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Snaz5 t1_j9qb74h wrote

I mean i won’t jump to conclusions, but… i’d be lying if i said my eyebrows didn’t go up a bit

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MisterGreys t1_j9oj885 wrote

Do we know if they just recently met with Putin?

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Shawnk27_Blast t1_j9no4y2 wrote

All independent environmental toxicity experts heading to Ohio. Hmmm

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whiskeyboundcowboy t1_j9now4s wrote

Damn that's some Russian window shit right there

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montemanm1 t1_j9ojffg wrote

They were trying to take off in the middle of a thunderstorm. If they had waited fifteen minutes, the storm would have been past them

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Dense-Competition-51 t1_j9ox5ui wrote

That’s the thing—the storm was super brief. The winds were crazy, but the sun was shining an hour or two later. I wonder what the hurry was.

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timbulance t1_j9olqb7 wrote

falling on bullets type shit

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Dense-Competition-51 t1_j9oxa7r wrote

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. It seems like someone involved made a tragically bad call.

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BootShoeManTv t1_j9oz4i7 wrote

Yeah, but that person would have been the pilot.

I don’t think anyone is accusing the pilot of killing himself just to spite the residents of east Palestine.

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Dense-Competition-51 t1_j9ozwfi wrote

Oh, I’m catching up now. Yeah, I think the pilot just made a fatally bad call. They could’ve just been an hour late instead of permanently late.

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Ebayednoob t1_j9nt01b wrote

Does it get more in your face than this?

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Ebayednoob t1_j9pfgp3 wrote

5 dead people with families but hey... They the baddies right?

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Overland_671 t1_j9qihau wrote

People with families die everyday. They ain't the worst people. But they didn't contribute anything to make things better. They kept the wheel of corruption and environmental destruction turning.

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danranja t1_j9pfzsl wrote

CTEH was hired by Norfolk Southern to do toxicology monitoring

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ThatGuy798 t1_j9pgpip wrote

The article says they were heading to the explosion at a metal refinery near Cleveland.

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sexisdivine t1_j9r0f3b wrote

I know coincides exist, still, this makes me go huh.

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Repubs_suck t1_j9rdkf2 wrote

A King Air 200 is NOT a small airplane.

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frisch85 t1_j9o0wbl wrote

> A good reminder of how safe air travel is though.

The annual risk of being killed in a plane crash for the average American is about 1 in 11 million.

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Icy_Comparison148 t1_j9o9fl5 wrote

That’s all well and good but it’s not applicable to General Aviation like the King Air that crashed here. Most people in America will never fly in lighter aircraft. King Airs are pretty decent though. But it’s not the same as flying in Delta.

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paleo_joe t1_j9qss88 wrote

The gusts of wind from the squall line that went through Little Rock at the time of the crash were strong enough to blow over a 50 pound door that I had leaned against a wall. I don’t understand why the pilot did not wait 15 minutes for the storm to pass. I imagine a Delta crew would have.

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frisch85 t1_j9o9ymm wrote

Which everyone who actually reads the content I've linked would know.

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Icy_Comparison148 t1_j9oh0hf wrote

You sited a safety record for aviation that is built in the backs of Part 121 airline flying. In an article about King Air crashing, flying under probably part 135, which is much different and much less risk adverse than part 121 airline flying. You might as well cited the risk of being bitten by an ant in the arctic.

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frisch85 t1_j9ohp3r wrote

Fair enough, so tell me what are the chances of dying from flying?

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Icy_Comparison148 t1_j9ot4kr wrote

Depends on what you fly. Flying GA has been shown to be somewhat comparable to riding a motorcycle. But, statistics, numbers only tell a piece of the story.

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5hayn t1_j9plorn wrote

I wonder how they will decide this was Biden's fault.

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origamipapier1 t1_ja10rpq wrote

Conspiracy theorists always will find the way. Even though the fact the company was one of the one testinging in Palestine (different folks I'm sure) and okayed the area would indicate it had nothing to do with Biden or the company.

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DeMalgamnated t1_j9plztc wrote

at least they didn't fly over the burning train wreck and crash due to toxic gases...

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