Leading Off
1. American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey says he’s taking personal responsibility for the maintenance issues that have forced AA to cancel 3,000 flights this week. I know Wick would tell him, uh, if you’re the one doing all the inspections, you’ve got to learn to delegate, sir. Let someone else inspect a plane or two.
2. A Carroll ISD principal resigned after being told state testing rules and federal special-ed laws were violated under her watch. Her lawyer said she could have mounted a good defense, but wanted instead to “let the kiddos get back to focusing on education.” The kiddos, upon hearing this, boo’ed and made thumbs-down signals.
3. Such a sportsy day in Dallas yesterday: the Mavs clinch because Dirk is clutch, the Dallas Stars begin the playoffs with a rout of the defending champs, and the Rangers’ pitching was again solid as they swept a doubleheader. (I was there for both games, and I can report that the entire stadium got a huge kick out of the streaker.)
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AMR’s Arpey needs to stay out of camera range…. his “apology” looked like the old SNL skit where Mike Wallace confronts Martin Shore’s defective toymaker character who proceeds to sweat virtual rivers….. if you are gonna tell the world the buck stops here… you need to be a little more convincing… he looked like he was about to go to the principal’s office
The fact that Arpey took responsibility is good. But has anyone heard any FAA representative take responsibility for not properly inspecting these planes in the first place? They could have had planes standing down one or two at a time over the last few years, instead of this fiasco we currently have.
True, it’s the airline’s responsibilty to make sure their planes are flight worthy but don’t we pay the FAA to trust, but verify?
was the “streaker” in the first or second game? i remember a delay in the first game and none of us could figure out what was going on…