After another jetliner mysteriously went missing without a trace on Sunday, cable news hosts are yet again filling time by speculating about what could have happened to Air Asia flight QZ8501 over the Java Sea.
On “Fox and Friends Sunday,” co-host Anna Kooiman wondered if foreign pilots’ use of the metric system played a role in the plane’s disappearance.
“Let’s talk about the differences. Even when we think about temperature, Fahrenheit or Celsius, kilometers or miles. Everything about their training could bow similar but different, right?” Kooiman asked former Federal Aviation Authority spokesman Scott Brenner.
Brenner told Kooiman that the difference between American and foreign pilots is actually the latter’s reliance on autopilot.
“So it’s not just differences in the way that we measure things, it’s a difference in the way that our pilots are actually trained?” Kooiman kept on. “Is it not as safe in that part of the world? Because our viewers may be wondering, ‘Is it safe, is it not safe?'”
Brenner reassured Kooiman that air travel is safe and that U.S. pilots in particular are well-trained to handle unforeseen flying conditions.
The discussion was reminiscent of media coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 last spring, when each day that turned up no evidence of the jet saw cable hosts fill the void with wild theories about its disappearance.
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Watch out Gretchen Carlson…you’ve got competition!
and think about kids watching these clowns - They assume these are the wise adults.
The metric system almost killed me, so she may be on to something.
Base 10 is very confusing. Everyone knows that 12 inches go into a foot and 3 feet go into a yard and 5280 feet or 1760 yards go into a mile. How many miles an hour are you driving to drive one kilometer? Who knows?
Anyway, everyone knows that the plane was hijacked by organization of time travelers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who are seeking to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past.
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Anna is 3 US stupids, works out to 1.136 decamorons.