Professor Elam

US Airways has offered a First Class upgrade when available to fly free for the next year to those passengers on the now famous Hudson River Landing. Gee, already some are running for attorneys saying they fear getting on a plane, others say it is just not enough.  Gee what exactly did the Cunard Line did for those folks on the Titanic?  The ones who did not get lifeboat seats that is…

It is a mere one hundred years since the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.  Regular passenger service began in the 1920s. But it was the DC 3 in the 1930s that really made commercial flying a reality. Seventy years later everyone thinks planes apparently should not land in the river. 

And to think, not that long ago, a good landing was 

One you could walk away from.

Perhaps we should take this up in Ethics class!