Qantas Hero

As the story of the troubled flight slowly unravels it really is a case of things not being as they appeared. That so many people were injured is horrible. That Qantas is tainted and taunted with these constant mishaps is horrible. Qantas used to have such a good record and was an airline to be proud of. This flight though, had problems with the autopilot. As a new Airbus 330 that is totally unacceptable and unforgivable because the inertial reference system sent error messages to the auto pilot which made it disconnect. The pilot was then left to manage a dipping plane and would have had to try and re-engage a computer contact which was functional. Twice it dipped. The ongoing investigations mean we cannot have details yet. The pilot, however, seems to have come from a military background and his skill and capacity to think during a crisis may well have stopped that plane from crashing and killing all the people. Far better to know this was a story of yet another pilot made of steel with an awesome capacity to think his way out of a crisis, than of some dough brained programmer or glitchy software that wasn’t properly tested. It means we have a man who has the capacity to save lives under extreme conditions and those sorts of people need to be rewarded and copied!

Paris right up there

Image via WikipediaParis Hilton has hit the top celebrity role model again for the second year running. Where? In Australia. For whom? Our 7-14 year olds. Yes, she’s the one they want to grow up like. She’s a real favourite. Is it because she looks like Barbie? Paris Hilton is also running her presidential campaign, so she is a pretty high profile lady at the moment, and might well become president in the future if the littlies like her the world over. The top of the list though is Johnny Depp. Yes! What a relief.