[FoxBusiness] Passengers on Delta flight sat on Harry Reid International Airport tarmac as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the department is investigating why Delta Air Lines passengers in Las Vegas remained on board a plane that sat on the tarmac in extreme heat.
"The reports are shocking and we are investigating, I want to know how it was possible for passengers to be left in triple-digit heat onboard an aircraft for that long. Even at normal temperatures a tarmac delay is not supposed to go that long and we have rules about that, which we are actively enforcing right now," Buttigieg said Friday in a statement to FOX Business.
The plane reportedly sat on the tarmac for hours on Monday.
During tarmac delays, the Transportation Department says airlines must provide comfortable cabin temperatures and begin moving the plane within three hours of a delayed domestic flight to a location where passengers can exit.
The department said that it would hold the airline accountable for any violations.
Delta Air Lines said in a statement that it was investigating the cause of the situation.
"We apologize for the experience our customers had on flight 555 from Las Vegas to Atlanta on July 17, which ultimately resulted in a flight cancellation," the airline said Tuesday in a statement to FOX Business. "Delta teams are looking into the circumstances that led to uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin and we appreciate the efforts of our people and first responders at Harry Reid International."
Fox News field producer Krista Garvin was on board the flight, which had been taxiing behind more than a dozen others.
Passengers were waiting in 111º F heat with no air conditioning when the pilot announced the plane had to return to the gate due to multiple emergencies, she said.
Flight attendants were seen running up and down the aisles with oxygen tanks. Multiple passengers had passed out and some had soiled themselves. The pilot instructed passengers to "hit your call button if you’re having a medical emergency."
A flight attendant and a passenger were transported to a local hospital.
Passengers were then given a choice to leave the plane, according to Garvin, but were told that if they did, it may take days to get another flight to Atlanta. Many passengers chose to stay on the plane, Garvin said, but temperatures inside began to rise again.
Temperatures at the airport fluctuated between 111 and 115 degrees on Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
After four hours, Garvin said stretchers were wheeled onto the plane, and passengers were asked to disembark back into the airport.
The flight was moved to 7 a.m. on Tuesday, but passengers learned it was canceled again.
Customers also received apologies directly as well as compensation.
Delta also said the time of initial departure until the flight was canceled was just over three hours, but the airline noted the plane did make at least one gate return due to heat-related weight and balance issues.
Delta Air Lines did not immediately respond to FOX Business' requests for comment on Friday.
#4
Well Mr Secretary you can actually change that tomorrow by making the FAA measure of 'on time' when the aircraft lifts off the air field rather than when it pushes off from the terminal as you now have it. Of course you won't because the industry will push back and bitch about how few aircraft are actually on time. Maybe its long beyond time when you finally admit that you can only get so many physically in the air at one time regardless of what the industry wants it to look like.
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@#3 - Exactly, B.
And this from the same industry that want to go to just one pilot in the cockpit and from the same gang that won't rehire pilots who quit or were terminated for refusing the Fauci Flu clot shot.
But, is there a bigger loser dorko putz in the "Biden" Administration than Buttigieg? I realize competition is tough, but that worthless dork is up there.
#7
The same thing happened at Munich airport this morning. Passengers of Tailwind Airlines (Turkish) were forced to remain on board for three hours in extreme heat and the pilot threatened those who demanded to leave.
The airline didn't even hand out water for free, passengers had to pay for it. Only when people called 110 (the German 911), police and fire brigades evacuated the passengers. Several people needed hospital care.
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07/23/2023 15:07 Comments ||
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#8
But, is there a bigger loser dorko putz in the "Biden" Administration than Buttigieg?
I would nominate Mayorkas but they're probably in a dead heat for that honor.
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07/23/2023 16:45 Comments ||
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#9
Yeah, and then there's Merrick Garland. Let's face it. It's the whole damned lot of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/23/2023 16:46 Comments ||
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#2
Unless the evidence of wrongdoing is so strong that even Democrats in the Senate will vote to convict, impeachment is just a show. Nothing happens to the president (or anyone else impeached by the House) unless the Senate votes to convict.
One of the reasons Nixon resigned was that there was enough evidence to convince even Republican Senators to convict him. He knew he would be removed from office.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/23/2023 14:38 Comments ||
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#3
Democrats conducted two sham impeachments of Trump just because they thought he was yucky. We don't need to follow their example.
#4
I want neither a Special Counsel nor do I want a quick and useless impeachment. Nixon was neither impeached nor was their a secret investigation done with a report forthcoming after 3 years. I want a public prolonged and bloody impeachment inquiry on all these bozos with lawyers and subpoenas and people having to step up and get clobbered defending Biden and his lackeys. I want Joe dragged through it until his favorability reaches the Jimmy Carter basement, so he acts surly in every speech and until he pulls his hair plugs out. I want to watch all Joe’s defenders walk away one by one until it is just Afro Raggedy Ann KJP squawking into the microphone that the Ultra MAGA crazies are not at the airport. At that point the puppeteer will pull the plug on plugs. The longer Biden stays the more collateral damage we achieve. The punishment will be the process.
Or we can just see the RINOs approve a continuing resolution on spending to get us to the year end omnibus.
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07/23/2023 18:02 Comments ||
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#5
There is an orchestrated undercurrent of berating going on of people like Jim Jordan going on by the left. Especially in the comment sections of their FaceBook pages. Their social media accounts are flooded with highly orchestrated hostility and meanness directed at them. Interestingly a lot of this hostility comes from Mexico. Cartels?
#8
Once a Special Counsel is appointed they can shut everything down as the "ongoing investgation"
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/23/2023 19:22 Comments ||
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#9
For Bill Clinton the impeachment inquiry and the special counsel ran simultaneously. I think the special counsel statute expired. What would be appointed now would be a Garland stooge, but I don’t think it would shut down an impeachment inquiry.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/23/2023 21:07 Comments ||
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[JustTheNews] Judicial Watch announced Friday a federal judge ordered the Illinois State Board of Elections to turn over voter roll data.
Forthcoming research from nonprofit conservative watchdog Judicial Watch indicates Illinois has close to 800,000 inactive registered voters.
Judicial Watch announced Friday a federal judge ordered the Illinois State Board of Elections to turn over voter roll data to the Illinois Conservative Union and three registered voters. The state had allowed review in person in Springfield during limited hours, but that was 200 miles from where the plaintiffs live.
Friday’s ruling means plaintiffs will get access to digital copies of voter rolls for the past 15 elections to include “registrant’s full name … residential street address … email address … telephone number, county and state voter identification number, age of the registrant, and the registrant’s status (active or inactive) and the most recent date the entry was changed.”
“Clean voter rolls mean cleaner elections,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “This is a victory for all legal voters in Illinois. Voters will now have the transparency that federal law requires in order to ensure elections in Illinois are more honest and cleaner.”
Judicial Watch also announced forthcoming research it plans to release based on recent census data and information Illinois reported to the federal Election Assistance Commission that shows 14% of Illinois’ counties have more registered voters than citizens over 18, indicating the state has close to 800,000 inactive registrants.
“Those are staggering numbers and the very reason why we need the openness and transparency in an effort to clean up these voter rolls, again, just another step to try and restore faith in the system, in the election system, for the voters of Illinois,” state Rep. Brad Halbrook told The Center Square.
As a member of the Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee, Halbrook argued for changes.
“These 40 day, prior to election day, vote by mail, early voting, ballots can be counted up to 14 days, the potential with rank-choice voting on the horizon, all of this stuff is not good for clean and fair elections and has to be reformed,” Halbrook said.
Judicial Watch has a pending lawsuit challenging Illinois’ weeks-long election process, arguing federal elections should be decided on election day, not weeks after.
#1
Few of the 800k would be at the same address. A Bol lot submitted for a voter than has moved outside their precinct would be invalid. They would have to vote provisionally in their new precinct. A more interesting list would be voters inactive for 15 years that voted in 2020 or 2022.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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A more interesting list would be voters inactive for 15 years that voted in 2020 or 2022.
They probably voted in 2008, 2012 and 2016 too.
The cemeteries in northeast Illinois are full of voters, and have been for years.
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07/23/2023 8:41 Comments ||
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#3
Still have my E-copies of the GA. Voter rolls and still amazed how many voters either lived at the same address, or lived 6 months in Motels, or their addresses fell into a black hole right after the election.
What is more amazing is our Sec. Of State and Governor both could not see a problem with more votes cast than registered voters in Metro-Atlanta. Or the illegally printed Abrams Ballots found in a rental ca, and a dozen other issues.
#4
The dead can be forgiven for having no idea of what they are voting for.
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07/23/2023 9:42 Comments ||
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#5
No sitting governor is incentivized to call into question the system that elected him or her.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/23/2023 11:21 Comments ||
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The state of Ohio was sued some years back over failing to clean up their voter rolls, and lost. So they turned my favourite state treasurer loose on the problem. Since the 2018 US Supreme Court ruling supporting their method, over 500,000 duplicate, dead, moved, and imaginary names have been removed from the lists, with another nearly 100,000 to be deleted at the end of this year — and with each round of purges Ohio has gotten redder and redder.
Should Illinois actually clean up those 800,000 names, or a significant portion thereof, it will be interesting to see if the state follows Ohio’s pattern.
#7
Take Chicago out of Illinois, take Philly out of PA, take Atlanta/Fulton County out of Georgia, and you have to wonder how red those states might be. O.k., arguably Illinois is a lost cause, but it does make one wonder.
This all goes back to what former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said after the 2020 elections, that you only need to swing 6 out of the 660 counties in the United States to swing national election results--Maricopa (Phoenix), Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Detroit, Phiily, and Fulton County (and its mystery water leaks).
#8
^ Josh did a good job. One of the things about Ohio that I like is that early votes are scanned at the time of receipt. A fake ballot is not useful unless it can be assigned to a voter record that has not voted. If all votes have to be processed immediately and not stored under a table in a footlocker. Early processing limits the cheating to known fake voter records. All of that cheating would need to take place at the county level. Pushing absentee ballots out to the precincts has its merits.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/23/2023 13:18 Comments ||
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#9
This is normal. No really, this is so normal it's expanding.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/23/2023 13:49 Comments ||
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Regarding the comment that the cemeteries are full of Democrat voters, there's an old joke that goes "My father was a lifelong Republican until he passed away. Since then he's always voted Democrat".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/23/2023 14:42 Comments ||
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The cemeteries in northeast Illinois are full of voters, and have been for years.
The story is told of Lyndon Johnson one night during his first campaign for Congress in a graveyard with his staff taking names from headstones. One staffer came to a headstone and complained that it was overgrown with moss to the point where he could not read it. Another staffer told him to skip that headstone.
"Now hold on," says Lyndon. "Scrape the moss off that headstone. That man has as much right to vote as anyone else in this graveyard."
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[NYPOST] Hunter Biden’s so-called "sugar brother" lawyer Kevin Morris was spotted smoking from a bong outside his Los Angeles home Thursday as the first son — a recovering drug addict — paid him a visit.
Hunter Biden is a recovering addict? When did that happen?
Morris, a successful Hollywood-based lawyer and major Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... supporter, had no shame as he stood on the balcony of his posh Pacific Palisades digs to expertly inhale from the glass water pipe, according to photos obtained by The Post.
Donning a purple patterned short-sleeved shirt, Morris carried out the smoke session in full view of the public street outside his house.
It’s unclear what the bong may have been packed with. Marijuana has been legal for recreational use in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, since 2018 and can be used on privately-owned property.
The 60-year-old attorney has reportedly taken on the responsibility of being Hunter’s fixer, allegedly loaning President Biden’s son $2 million last year to help pay off his delinquent federal taxes.
Morris, whose A-list clients include actor Matthew McConaughey and "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, has also allowed Hunter access to his luxury private jet, which the first son used in May to fly from Washington, DC, to Arkansas for a child support hearing.
#2
As a matter of judgement, if Hunter was actually a recovering addict (as farcical as that seems) and Morris was a responsible friend and legal counsel, toking up a bong-load while Hunter was inside seems a tad irresponsible. Conversely, it may be that since his dime-bag drug drop was interrupted, Hunter may have just want to do a blow-buy with a source? Using the USSS to drive him to and from the buy just reeks of the arrogance Hunter has recently put on display, so who knows?
That shirt does seem a bit tight?
[Amer. Faith] Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said last week that he has directed the agency to stop using the term "illegal alien" when referring to foreign nationals who come into the United States illegally.
"In the Department of Homeland Security I issued a memo very early on that we would not use the term ’illegal alien.’ When speaking of these individuals we use the term ’non-citizen,’ and that speaks to the importance of respecting the dignity of the individual," Mayorkas said.
Mayorkas’ instruction comes as illegal immigration has spiked under the Biden administration to nearly 1.5 million illegal immigrant gotaways.
Border Patrol has also reported a 1,000% increase in illegal immigration from numerous different countries from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023.
#1
Leadership- addressing the issues that matter most.
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"Illegal is no human bean,"
Says Mayorkas.
"Of course not," agreein',
"But some are Majorcans
Who head up the organs
And moonlight as Mex Mr. Clean."
[Townhall] Emma-Jo Morris got the scoop of a lifetime when she broke the Hunter Biden laptop story. Initially derided by the pro-Biden intelligence community, the liberal media, and social media executives, they tried to bury the story long enough to elect the rapidly deteriorating Delaware Democrat president. The election interference was coming from inside the house, the perpetrator: the Democratic Party. And yet, multiple federal investigations and congressional hearings are being held about the laptop's contents, now confirmed to be genuine.
Everything Ms. Morris reported was later determined accurate, confirmed in outlets from The New York Times and The Washington Post, albeit years later.
We knew it was true.
Morris was on the Hill on July 20 to testify about how Silicon Valley, the feds, and the intelligence community colluded to censor her story, curb its reach, and lockout The New York Post, for which she served as deputy politics editor at the time, from access to their social media accounts. Still, some people refuse to believe that the laptop is authentic, leading to this person questioning if Morris thought it was Russian disinformation, the initial and obvious pivot deployed when this story was first published. Her response was perfect:
“We didn’t need some genius high tech analysis on the handful of emails we reported on; the whole contact list was there,” she replied. “After we confirmed the subpoena, we called Hunter’s lawyer and the people on the emails. Verifying the material was actually not that deep.”
She later took this person to school:
And this person still doesn’t get it. Also, if we talk about bubbles, please stop implying that liberals don’t live in one. It makes you look like an idiot.
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#1
All of the sudden the NYP was relevant and refused to back down.
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[ChildrensHealthDefense] The vaccine, Cyfendus, is approved for use after suspected or confirmed exposure to Bacillus anthracis, also known as anthrax, but must be administered together with other antibacterial drugs.
Emergent said it had been delivering Cyfendus to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2019, under pre-emergency use authorization status.
The efficacy of Cyfendus for post-exposure prophylaxis was tested only on animals.
Emergent said the drug has been in development for 20 years in collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Paul Williams, senior vice president at Emergent, said anthrax “remains a high-priority national security threat.”
Cyfendus is comprised of Emergent’s anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA), marketed as Biothrax, plus an additional adjuvant, the name of which the company did not disclose.
Cyfendus is administered in two doses over 14 days to elicit an immune response that the company said: “can be especially important in response to a large-scale public health emergency involving anthrax.”
Nass said that during the 2001 anthrax scare, where politicians and media organizations across the country received anthrax in the mail, five people died — but “everyone who got antibiotics early did not come down with anthrax and none of them died.”
What has happen at the FDA?
It use to actually do it assigned job of review and protection.
Now it seems it is feeding Mega $$$$ Elite & DC wallets over safety.
#3
Sounds like it’s time to get out of the US military because no sane civilian would take that vaccine. Who would be at Risk other than Rand Paul’s mail opener? The government has to be making it mandatory for somebody. That’s what Big Pharma pays for.
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#4
Atomic soldiers, agent orange, gulf war syndrome, it will always continue till people are publicly held accountable and punished well beyond a hand slap. Which means never in this society.
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[FoxBusiness] Passengers on Delta flight sat on Harry Reid International Airport tarmac as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees
[JustTheNews] Judicial Watch announced Friday a federal judge ordered the Illinois State Board of Elections to turn over voter roll data.
...every time you hear the phrase 
[ChildrensHealthDefense] The vaccine, Cyfendus, is approved for use after suspected or confirmed exposure to Bacillus anthracis, also known as anthrax, but must be administered together with other antibacterial drugs.
