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Maybe you are writing a list of New Year’s resolutions. Maybe they include (but are not limited to) the following: 1. Sleeping in your own bed at least five nights in a row; 2. Sleeping in a bed; 3. Sleeping. Maybe you quench your Christmas thirst with a non-alcoholic drink at Crema Café with a Mexican hot cocoa, like Felipe’s Hot Chocolate. (Editor’s Note: Maybe this is our New Year’s resolution list...
According to the transcript of the interview, Trenton Duckett, Duckett’s 2 year-old son, suddenly went missing one night after Duckett put him in bed and attended to company at her home. The toddler has not yet been found...
...15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing light, can only do so much...
...deadly sequence began when the backseat officer in the second F-15E - the plane whose pilot was in command of the two-plane mission - calculated the altitude of the lake bed at 4,800 ft. The flight manual required him to use a more precise altimeter than the device he used. He compounded that snafu when he mistakenly cited the elevation of their home base at Bagram - 4,800 ft. - as the elevation for the lake bed. That mistake apparently happened because Bagram's altitude had remained on the screen momentarily as he vainly sought to ascertain the lake bed...
...investigation cited the wrong altitude for the lake bed as the key reason for the crash (neither officer aboard the second F-15E was named in the probe) but spelled out several contributing factors. The crew was tired - wearing night-vision goggles increases eyestrain and fatigue - and crashed at 2:30 a.m., the sleepiest time in the human sleep cycle. Night-vision goggles reduce depth perception, especially when there's little ambient light and the ground is flat and barren. The crew "channelized" its attention on the attack run, ignoring warning signs that danger was imminent. Finally, "expectancy" played...