Emily Fringer

5G weaponised old bat.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

An Air France jet leaving LAX just after midnight Saturday turned the wrong way and ended up less than a mile from an American Airlines plane. When the controller asked the pilots why they turned, they said "give me a minute."

Just before that turn, those same pilots had read back the instruction they were about to break, word for word.

To understand why that's so unsettling, you have to know how LAX gets planes off the ground.

LAX has two pairs of runways, one north of the terminals and one south. Jets take off from both sides right after each other, sometimes at the exact same moment. The FAA allows that because each plane gets a published route, and the two routes have to fan apart by at least 15 degrees right after takeoff. For that first minute, the routes are what keep the planes apart. Both crews just have to fly them.

Air France 28 took off from the north side headed for Tahiti, on a route called SUMMR2 that goes out over the Pacific. American 1660 left about a minute later from the south side, headed to Dallas.

Departure control told Air France to "climb via SID," which is pilot shorthand for fly the published route. The crew said it right back. "Climbing via SID." You can see it in the captions of the video.

Then the A350 banked left, toward the American jet's path.

The controller spotted it on radar and jumped in. Air France got "fly heading 270 immediately." American got a traffic alert, a plane at 12 o'clock less than a mile away, and an order to stay at 2,000 feet, so the crew stopped climbing. Flight tracking from Wingbits shows the two jets got as close as 0.76 nautical miles, with about 300 feet of altitude between them at one point. The normal minimum is 3 miles or 1,000 feet. At takeoff speeds, 0.76 miles goes by in something like 14 seconds.

Once the planes were apart, the controller started asking questions, and it gets uncomfortable to listen to. Why did you turn to a heading? "Standby." What departure were you told to fly? "Give me a minute." It took more than a minute of back and forth before the crew confirmed it was SUMMR2, the same route they'd already read back. The controller told them it was a possible pilot deviation and gave them a phone number to call. As of Sunday, neither Air France nor the FAA has said why the plane turned.

Every instruction in aviation gets repeated back like that so the controller can be sure the pilot heard it right. On Saturday that check worked perfectly, and it still didn't stop the turn. What stopped it was one person at SoCal Departure, at 12:16 in the morning, watching a radar screen closely enough to notice a line bend the wrong way.

Back in March at LaGuardia, the last line of defense was also a controller. That controller was juggling a separate emergency, cleared a fire truck onto a runway with an Air Canada jet landing on it, and both pilots died.

The last thing on Saturday's tape is the LAX controller apologizing to the American crew for a turn they had nothing to do with. Their answer was "Great job, thank you."

[Emily Fringer @efringer]

@RichardAngwin ice

[The AB Teacher Pension War Room🍁 @yomeeks]

School boards were not asked to use their discretion. That is what they were doing before. School boards were directed to comply with a Ministerial Order that was, apparently, written by a bunch of yokels.

[Shaye Ganam @ShayeGanam]

The number of people rejoicing in a messy pancake flip tells you all you need to know about politics in 2025. Just when you think we couldn’t dumb things down any further they find a new depth.

[Emily Fringer @efringer]

@nocontextmemes Helen Keller died five years after JFK

[katie spalding @supermathskid]

Thinking about how it would be reported if the ex-president of a non-Western country was ruled immune from prosecution by a panel of judges he himself appointed

[Emily Fringer @efringer]

On Feb. 6, come hear NY Times journalist Emily Flitter speak about her book, The White Wall, which investigates the racial wealth gap and the financial hurdles minorities - especially Black people - contend with. This free, online session is open to all: https://t.co/93bJlrRVco.

[Fort Saskatchewan Public Library @fortsasklibrary]

New York Times journalist Emily Flitter joins us to talk about her book The White Wall. The book investigates the racial wealth gap in America and the financial hurdles minorities contend with. Join us for a virtual author visit.
https://t.co/Bp7vBTnZ6D

[Emily Fringer @efringer]

@akaida @RSCTheAcademies Congratulations!!

[Rakhi Pancholi @pancholi_rakhi]

This is the part of the Sovereignty Act that allows Cabinet to change legislation w/o going back to the Legislature.

The key words are "by order".

It means Cabinet can suspend, modify, or create new legislative provisions by an Order in Council (signing a document). #ableg

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

For those who repeat "well Quebec does it." Quebec Premier still has to amend legislation through the National Assembly. Quebec Premier cannot order provincial entities to violate federal laws. This is not about standing up to Ottawa, this is about eroding democracy in AB.

[Emily Fringer @efringer]

@MarkConnollyCBC lavender in food or really anything

[Sewell Chan @sewellchan]

There’s one thing that separates the Texas women who will continue to be able to get abortions and those who won’t:

Wealth.

New ⁦@TexasTribune⁩ story by ⁦@kbrooksharper⁩: https://t.co/4LIMmhxYmF

[Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli]

Please understand that pointing to the lack of police violence against the convoy protesters is not a call for violence. It's pointing out that the absence of police violence is possible and should be expected when protesting, especially for Black and Indigenous communities.

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[Emily Fringer @efringer]

@Garossino you're Gen X? 😂

[Kyle Richelhoff @richelhoff]

I redid https://t.co/cKDLZWxM6Y to scan Alberta QR codes. Yes, you heard that right. First it was the vaccine cards, but now this is fully 100% working scanner you can use today. No app to install, all web based, 100% client-side code and works offline. #abhealth #abpoli

[Saadiq Sumar (he/him) @SaadiqSumar]

Thank you to @sprawlalberta and @hamdiissawi for this awesome feature and helping all of us understand the importance of school board trustees. Head out to the polls on October 18th! #TeamSumar

[Robson Fletcher @CBCFletch]

June & July: Experts warning of a 4th wave in Alberta and the journalists who report on their warnings are repeatedly attacked by top government officials, accused of fear mongering and not wanting the pandemic to end.

Today: "Kindness matters."

[Jen The Feisty Librarian @Feisty_Waters]

Breaking: Kenney and Shandro spew enough condescending bullshit that even Rick Bell calls them on it, space-time continuum explodes.