Plane Crash

            A plane crashed into a house in a Mississippi neighborhood late Tuesday.  It killed all three people on the plane and injured a resident of the home.  The single engine plane had just taken off from the Hawkins Field Airport  when it began to falter.  One of the three men on the plane was a flight instructor, and another of the three was just 15 hours away from getting his pilot license.  They were going to a Federal Aviation Administration safety conference just 25 miles away.

            The owner of the plane described the plane as being in “mint condition”. Well, it obviously wasn’t.  I’m sure he did a standard safety check on the plane before they took off, but if I was flying, I would double, maybe even triple check the plane before I took off.  Once you’re in the air, and anything goes wrong, there is basically nothing you can do.  If you are in a plane, and something goes wrong, there is a good chance you’re not going to make it out alive.  This is one of those things that you can’t go lightly on.  You have to be 100% positive about every single little detail.

            Honestly, I don’t even see why they flew.  It was 25 miles away.  They spent way more money and probably went through way more trouble flying than driving.  It probably took more time to fly as well.  They had to get the plane out, do the inspections, be cleared to take off, actually fly there, land the plane, park the plane, and then somehow get to the place of the meeting.  It just makes no sense to me why they would go through more trouble and money than they would have to.

Toddler Dies after Falling into Wild Dog Exhibit at Pennsylvania Zoo

A two year old boy died today at the Pittsburgh Zoo today.  It was reported that he fell off the railing his mother had put him on.  He fell 11 feet into the exhibit and then was immediately pounced on by a pack of wild African dogs.  Zoo officials and police are not sure whether the boy died from the fall or from the mauling.

Fences and rails are put up for the reason not to go past them.  You’re not allowed to go above them,  you’re  not allowed to go below them.  They’re not meant to be keeping you from only passing the specific area that the fence or rail is at.  You just don’t go past a rail or fence, especially if there is an 11 foot drop and a pack of wild dogs on the other side.  The mother, who is 34 years old, should not have even put the toddler, who has no self-control, on the rail, much less take her hands off of him.  I think she should have kept him in a stroller the whole time or at least held his hand.  Even using one of those backpack “leashes” for kids would have been more beneficial.

In my opinion, parents are becoming less and less responsible for their kids every day.  You have to be extremely cautious with your kids, especially when they are as young as the boy in the story.  When they are as young as 2 years old, they have no control over themselves. So, as a parent, you have to control every aspect of their life or you could possibly lose them.