helicopter

So we get an airplane and helicopter collide (other reports is that it was two airplanes) and crash today in Sharonville, Ohio - a subdivision just north of Cincinnati. The local news is taking eyewitness callers, and Channel 5 gets a doozy:

Out of the numerous callers I have listened to, this is the only person that alleged someone parachuted out of a plane. Even more interesting is how he is saying that the person appeared to be Middle Eastern.

It is too early to call "Frank" a liar, but I am very suspicious of this account. I will keep updating this as more news becomes available.

UPDATE:

There was no Middle Easterner involved. A total of three people died in this sad accident. Someone was trying to get their 15 minutes of fame by fabricating a story from this tragedy (which I figured from the beginning). Hopefully the news media will stop taking callers live during such stories.

Don't everyone wish their business ran this way - "no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar". Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes:

In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, a project that was nearly three years behind schedule and more than $3.5 billion over budget. Those problems, however, didn't stop an Army panel a few weeks later from granting the Boeing Co.-Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. partnership running the program a $33.9 million "award fee" for their work on the helicopter, part of more than $200 million in such fees paid to the partnership over four years.

Award fees are meant in theory to motivate defense contractors with extra money for performance. But a recent Government Accountability Office study found that the fees are often paid regardless of whether a project is on schedule and within its budget.

Instead of encouraging efficiency, the GAO found, award-fee payments have become routine in some major weapons contracts, built into company expectations and paid almost as a matter of course.

So this is how the "fiscally responsible" conservatives choose to run our country? Hell with that kind of spending and mismanagement let's go ahead and take the American flag down and put up the Chinese flag.