As most, I spent a lot of time yesterday watching the miracle that was flight 1549. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the plane, is a hero to the end for his handling of the disaster at 3,000 feet.

Something that I did notice while checking out blogosphere coverage of the near tragedy was that people seemed to be kind of shocked over the notion that birds can bring down a big jet. For example, here’s Malkin’s posting;

Speculation: The plane hit a flock of birds?

She’s questioning the whole “flock of birds” thing, when in actuality birds account for tons of airplane problems, including engine failure. It wasn’t that long ago that G.E. actually tested engines by releasing live birds into engines (I knew one of the people who worked there doing this).

I just had to point out Malkin though. If there were rumors that some brown person was trying to take over the plane, then the whole “speculation” work wouldn’t be there. Instead it would read more like “jihadists hijack airplane”.

True we now get to wait for the pre-emptive strike against all birds. We must attack them there so they don’t attack us there! Bush has 4 days left in office – could we see another war?