[Rhodes22-list] Boeing Stock and Composite Boats

[Bill Effros]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

ed kroposki wrote:

>Brad,
>	I have out of touch with the world as most Americans know it.  Where
>I was over in the Ukraine, there were no English language newspapers
>available and no English language news.  Because of the extremely slow
>internet access, I could not even check the news on the internet.
>	What day did this accident occur?  Any details? Web citations? Your
>attached info was very interesting.  Is the sailboat incident that you are
>referring to the carbon fiber mast failure?   
>	AS to my being out of touch, the other lady with my wife had
>extensive international travel experience and was exasperated that we could
>not even get the BBC.  The people that sent us did not accurately portray
>the situation, enough said.
>	FYI, the AeroSvit flight to Kiev from JFK was almost 5,000 miles.
>The plane, a Boeing 767, had screens for movies which also allowed the
>pilots to post information.  In between the movies and at the beginning and
>near the end of the flight they posted maps of the route, progress on the
>route, altitude, air speed, departure time, actual time, expected arrival
>time, temperature and weather conditions.  The crew was very professional.
>All announcements were first made in Ukrainian then an English translation.
>In fact the monitor screens posted the information in Ukrainian and metric
>then English with our miles or temperature.  I could recommend this airline
>to the next guy going to Kiev, your everyday destination.
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>Ed K
>Greenville, SC, USA
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