57 Year Study Demonstrates Evolution in Action

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Just read an interesting article that discusses an investigation of a population of Drosophila fruit flies that were kept in complete darkness for 57 years:

PLoS ONE: Genome Features of “Dark-Fly”, a Drosophila Line Reared Long-Term in a Dark Environment
[...] We found that Dark-fly exhibited higher fecundity in dark than in light conditions, indicating that Dark-fly possesses some traits advantageous in darkness. Using next-generation sequencing technology, we determined the whole genome sequence of Dark-fly and identified approximately 220,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 4,700 insertions or deletions (InDels) in the Dark-fly genome [...] Among them, we detected 28 nonsense mutations (i.e., they produce a stop codon in the protein sequence) in the Dark-fly genome. These included genes encoding an olfactory receptor and a light receptor. [...] Furthermore, analysis of structural variants in the Dark-fly genome showed the deletion of a gene related to fatty acid metabolism. Our results revealed unique features of the Dark-fly genome and provided a list of potential candidate genes involved in environmental adaptation.

The time frame amounts to 1400 generations of flies.  The scientists conducting the investigation found a number of genomic differences between the dark flies and their parent strain (as one might expect, for example, genes for light receptors had received damaging mutations because light sensitivity did not offer a reproductive advantage.)

Taking samples of dark flies and introducing them to normally environments (cycling day/night periods) revealed that the dark flies outpaced the normal flies in reproduction during dark periods — suggesting that some evolutionary reproductive advantage had been  acquired by the dark flies (when environmental conditions matched what their genome was more suited for).

All in all a fascinating article and yet another example (to add to the tens of thousands of extant examples) of evolution in action.  Since we all know they’re coming, let’s just address the standard creationist objections now.

  1. But they’re still flies.
    Yes.  The theory of evolution doesn’t predict that a fly will spontaneously give birth to a tuna.  Variation occurs slowly over time and accumulates with small variations adding up to large ones.  You would need significantly more than 57 years to produce a creature that we would not recognize as a fruit fly.  Keep in mind that insects have been on the Earth for about 250,000,000 years (a time frame 4.3 million times longer than this experiment.)
  2. This is just micro-evolution, not macro-evolution.
    And this is exactly the same as saying “but they’re still flies”.  Micro-evolution is macro-evolution. Arguing that no number of small changes will ever add up to a different species (or “kind”) is pretty much to call into question the concept of addition itself.  If I successively add 1 over and over I can get to any number, no matter how large.  Nobody argues “maybe adding works for small numbers but not big ones”.
  3. Of course the genome is damaged, mutations can only produce reductions in information, they can’t add information.
    This sort of argument typically comes from the Behe/I.D. crowd which is perennially unable to define “information” (or “kind”).  The article clearly mentions genetic insertions and deletions.  What do you think an insertion is?  It’s the introduction of new genetic matter into the genome, which ought to be considered an addition of information.  If I insert a word into a sentence, or a letter into a word, or a digit into a number, I am adding information.  I usually find that those who make the “information” argument will then get slippery with the definition of information and betray their inability to view the concept objectively.
  4. This just more lies from the grand conspiracy perpetrated by scientists who want to destroy  God.
    Please remove the tinfoil hat.

Any other standard arguments I am missing?

Remember This Blog? No? Good Because it's about to Move…

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So I am switching over to PressHarbor to continue hosting this blog. I haven't written here in ages, but I keep getting ideas for things I'd like to write. Since BlogHarbor is going down at the end of the month, it was either switch or let this blog die quietly.

After much hemming and hawing I've decided to move the thing. It will be (I think) at UnbecomingLevity.com once all the content has been moved.

Stay tuned.

– Chuck

Why Microsoft Outlook Continues to Suck

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It's very simple Microsoft. If I go into my settings and specify that mail account X is the default account for outgoing mail messages, then that means that mail account X is the default account for outgoing mail messages.

I know that's a complex concept, but you've been getting it consistently wrong since 2003 at least and I'm getting a little tired of customers receiving business e-mails from my personal account because Outlook doesn't understand that “this is where I want my mail sent from” means “this is where I want my mail sent from”… forcing me to remember to check the outgoing mail address EVERY TIME I SEND A MESSAGE to make sure Outlook has done what it was supposed to do.

As an added bit of joy, if I change from an account that uses no signature to one that does use a signature, Outlook helpfully replaces the content of my e-mail message with the signature. Difficult concept number two: signatures go at the ends of messages, they don't replace them. (And BTW, this wouldn't happen as often if Outlook wasn't continually choosing to ignore my default account for sending.)

For years people have been getting around this problem by installing both Outlook and Outlook Express… two e-mail readers because ONE reader can't seem to manage the dizzyingly complex notion of sending mail from the default account. Instead they run two readers and split the accounts between the readers. This is a dismal state of affairs for an e-mail reader that is over 10 years old. Get it right, get it over with. And provide a PATCH for people who are using Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003–because this should have worked right from day one.

Distributed Computing = Distributed Responsibility = Fingerpointing

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So this morning I tried to process an order a customer had sent me last night.  I went to log into my photolab service provider, exposuremanager.com, just like I always do.  Bzzzt.  Can't get in.  “This link appears to be broken.”

Huh, maybe it's my machine.  So I try my daughter's machine, nope she can't see it either.  Internet down?  Nope I can get my email and see all the other sites I use regularly.

So I (reasonably) assume exposuremanager is down.  That's not too cool–because while it is down my customers can't place orders.  So I call customer support and leave them a message that their site is down.

A little while later I get an e-mail from them stating their site is up and running fine (and by the way, nice pictures on your site!) Thanks, but I still can't get in.

So I try the DOS utility “ping” to ping their server.  Sometimes it can't resolve exposuremanager to an IP address (implying a problem with a domain name server at Comcast) and other times it can resolve the IP address but gets no response.  I check with WHOIS on Tucows (their registrar) to see if their domain has expired, but it hasn't.  WTF?

So then I run a traceroute in an attempt to see where the communication fails between me and exposuremanager:

Tracing route to exposuremanager.com [66.254.91.235]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  www.routerlogin.com [192.168.1.1]

  2     7 ms    10 ms     7 ms  [ my IP omitted ]

  3     8 ms     8 ms     6 ms  ge-1-2-ur01.gardner.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.187.109]

  4    11 ms    10 ms     9 ms  te-0-8-0-2-ar01.woburn.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.162.93]

  5    14 ms     9 ms     9 ms  pos-0-15-0-0-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.162.145]

  6    15 ms    14 ms    22 ms  pos-0-0-0-0-ar01.chartford.ct.hartford.comcast.net [68.85.162.70]

  7    16 ms    18 ms    17 ms  pos-2-4-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.61]

  8    22 ms    18 ms    17 ms  Vlan546.icore1.NJY-Newark.as6453.net [206.82.132.41]

  9    17 ms    45 ms    18 ms  if-6-0-0-25.mcore3.NJY-Newark.as6453.net [216.6.57.41]

 10    19 ms    17 ms    18 ms  if-2-0.core1.NTO-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.57.66]

 11    17 ms    18 ms    19 ms  sl-gw31-nyc-14-0-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.249.29]

 12    18 ms    19 ms    17 ms  sl-crs2-nyc-0-2-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.35]

 13    23 ms    27 ms    19 ms  sl-bb20-msq-2-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.74]

 14    22 ms    22 ms    24 ms  sl-bb21-msq-15-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.110]

 15    26 ms    26 ms    27 ms  sl-crs1-rly-0-8-5-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.73]

 16    25 ms    25 ms    26 ms  sl-bb20-dc-5-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.162]

 17    24 ms    28 ms    25 ms  sl-crs1-dc-0-0-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.15.11]

 18    74 ms    73 ms    74 ms  sl-crs2-fw-0-11-3-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.19.200]

 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

 

Trace complete.

As you can see, the communication makes it to “sl-crs2-fw-0-11-3-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.19.200]” and then fails.  Sprintlink.net is inside of the Sprint network.  To get as far as I did required the services of three companies, Comcast (comcast.net),  Tata Communications (as6453.net), and Sprint (sprintlink.net). None of these companies is my company (sagewoodstudios.com) or my photolab service provider (exposuremanager.com).  In fact after the last hop, I don't know what the next address would be–it might be a fourth company, or another server in the Sprint network.  Exposure Manager can't help me–it's not their computer.  Comcast can't help me–it's not their computer either.  Sprint *might* be able to help me, but I'm not their customer. 

What I do know is, if I didn't have to use this route, I would indeed be able to get there.  I found an online provider of the standard 'net tools (ping, traceroute, etc.) called Network-Tools.com (that's a handy link btw, you might want to bookmark it).  I can get to their server to see their website, and when I ask THEM to do a traceroute to exposuremanager, they can get there just fine:

TraceRoute to 66.254.91.235 [exposuremanager.com]

Hop

(ms)

(ms)

(ms)

IP Address

Host name

1

8

6

6

206.123.69.137

-

2

9

6

6

8.9.232.73

xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net

3

12

7

7

4.69.145.140

ae-3-80.edge2.dallas3.level3.net

4

8

15

6

4.71.220.14

xo-communic.edge2.dallas3.level3.net

5

10

12

9

207.88.13.122

207.88.13.122.ptr.us.xo.net

6

41

40

40

207.88.12.46

207.88.12.46.ptr.us.xo.net

7

41

40

40

65.106.1.69

65.106.1.69.ptr.us.xo.net

8

41

49

52

65.106.5.10

p0-0-0.mar2.la-ca.us.xo.net

9

46

40

40

207.88.81.170

p15-0.chr1.la-ca.us.xo.net

10

50

44

45

66.238.50.106

66.238.50.106.ptr.us.xo.net

11

53

45

47

66.254.64.1

gw1.pixelgate.net

12

53

50

47

66.254.91.235

host235.exposuremanager.com

Trace complete

As you can see, because they are starting from a different provider (level3.net) their communication path takes a different route that never involves any of the companies I'm forced to use.  If Network-Tools.com provided a “browser in a browser” basically an embedded frame that I could point anywhere I want to, I'd be able to get to my photolab and process my customer's orders.

In the meantime I'm pretty stuck.  I can't help my customers, and my service provider can't help me.  Welcome to the Internet… where you really “can't get thar from hyar”.

A Message Sent to a Creationist

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If I get an answer, I'll post it here.

You said “I believe in Creation.  I have a few questions for those of you who don't. If we came from monkeys, where did the monkey come from? If we originated from one-cell creatures that evolved over time, where did they come from? No matter how far back you go and say we evolved over time, there is always that question. Where did that organism come from that started everything?”

This is basically all one question, and it's what we call a question of infinite regression.  One can always ask “well where did THAT come from?”  One can even ask that question about God.  Fortunately that question falls outside the bailiwick of the Theory of Evolution.  The theory of evolution does not speculate on where the first life form came from.  The abundant evidence for evolution makes clear that evolution happened and is still happening.  But none of that precludes a deity.  If you choose to believe that the first life form was the product of the divine, that's fine, evolution makes no assertions either way to challenge or support such a belief.

Which is why it's a little misguided to argue that one must choose between creation or evolution.  There are literally billions of religious people the world over who accept the evidence for evolution and continue to believe in their deity of choice.  There's no necessary conflict between those two beliefs.

Regarding the rest of your post “I have even heard some one say that we evolved from non-living rocks. Unbelievable.”

Now you are getting into a different subject, and it's not part of evolution, you are speculating on what in science is referred to as abiogenesis (life from nonliving matter).  The reason why it has that name is that there is no argument (among those familiar with the evidence) that the planet existed before life did.  At one point there was only nonliving matter here, and then there was living matter.  How?

It's an interesting question… how do you get from nonliving matter to living matter?  Abiogenesis isn't a theory, there isn't enough evidence for us to know for sure how the first life forms came into being (and honestly there probably never will be)–there are a number of competing hypotheses, and many of them have points both for and against.  But the belief in divine creation is also an example of abiogenesis… if it was a god, he must have created life out of something.  Surely it is within the power of a supreme being to take some raw chemicals and assemble a living thing.  I doubt you would claim “God couldn't do that”.

The most likely conclusion is that the first life form was molecular, a simple chemical compound that could make imperfect copies of itself.  At the lowest levels it becomes impossible to distinguish between biology and chemistry–and it's quite likely the first “life” would be something we would barely recognize as alive.  You may find it unbelievable that we evolved from “rocks”, and that is a mind boggling proposition.  However that a simple duplicating chemical compound might have formed in a sea of chemicals bathed in solar radiation and sitrred by tides isn't all that mind boggling at all.  Once you have anything that copies itself with errors, then natural selection kicks in and begins to result in changes to that “organism” over time.

All very interesting, but when it comes to the genesis event, whatever it was, we'll never have an eyewitness or a fossil that will allow us to know the nature of that event.  Fossil molecules, I suspect, would be rather hard to find. :-)

Therefore I don't concern myself with it, and I concern myself with what we DO have evidence for.  The notion of a supernatural being that actively affects the universe and created anything is an interesting notion… a pretty spectacular claim.  But for a person with an evidentiary worldview I can't possibly just accept such a claim without evidence.  Since the evidence is lacking, I'm not going to adopt such a belief (pending further evidence of course)–that's the reasonable assumption to make.  So there we are.

What I do note of the “God Hypothesis” is that historically it has been supplied as an explanation for the unknown for any number of questions and phenomena.  As science has advanced the answer to each of those previously divine phenomena (planetary motion, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, volcanoes, rainbows, etc, etc, etc) the divine has been found to be unnecessary, and the God Hypothesis simply moves to a new unknown, filling the gaps on the shelves of knowledge, to be perennially relocated when the books that explain those gaps are written and shelved.

The unknown is mundane.  There will always be unknowns.  And since the supernatural has been invoked to explain every single unknown in the history of humanity, the fact that it is invoked to explain the origin of life isn't very compelling to me.  The hypothesis doesn't have a very good track record, and the mere fact that something is unknown is not evidence for a supernatural agent.

So while I do not know what the original life form was, or how it got here, I'm inclined to think it was some sort of entirely natural event.  That's the more reasonable assumption based on what we know about the world.  I'm not going to make assumptions based on what we DON'T know… that would be imprudent in my opinion.

That said, I bear no ill will to those who do.  There are many great things religion has brought humanity (including, ironically, science itself).  So if you want to believe in a divine being, an afterlife, redemption–more power to you I say.  Especially if it brings you happiness or comfort in difficult times.  I don't share that belief, but I see no reason either of us should condemn the other.

Obviously I tend to get quite angry with people who ignore evidence and spread disinformation.  That's to be expected from someone who holds an evidentiary worldview.  (And of course, I am as human as the next guy.)  Which is why you could sum up my opinion on the subject at hand like so:

“To believe in the divine is a personal choice, and there is nothing wrong with it.  To ignore the evidence for evolution is to be willfully ignorant.”

And that's all I have to say about that.  I hope you found this message to be a useful answer to your questions.  I'm actually not interested in debating theology (I think debating things for which there isn't any evidence is fairly pointless), but if you have any questions about evolution, I'd be happy to try and answer them if I know the answers.

Air Disasters

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For a guy terrified of air travel, I have a peculiar fascination for stories about air disasters and the investigations that follow (mostly about the investigations that follow). As such I've been collecting together links to YouTube videos of documentaries about air disasters/incidents/accidents.

National Geographic produced a series called Air Crash Investigation (ACI) which you annoyingly cannot buy on DVD from Amazon, so if your local cable isn't carrying it, YouTube is the only place to go.

Other such programs which covered air disasters are the show “Seconds from Disaster” (SFD) and the “Black Box” (BB) miniseries.

On the off chance that other people are interested in such stories, I'm posting the text file that I've been building over the last few months with links to these stories (nobody on YouTube seems to be able to build a playlist worth a damn, so I find this more useful.) I've also included one-off programs which are not part of ACI, SFD, or BB.

Some of the stories I find the most haunting or compelling are:

  • ACI Season 2, Ep 4: Deadly Crossroads
  • ACI Season 3, Ep 9: Kid in the Cockpit
  • ACI Season 4, Ep 5: Hidden Danger
  • ACI Season 5, Ep 3: The Gimli Glider
  • ACI Season 5, Ep 8: The Plane That Wouldn't Talk
  • ACI Season 6, Ep 6: Ditch the Plane
  • SFD Season 3, Ep 9: Plane Crash in Queens
  • MISC Crash of the Century (Tenerife)
    •

    There's a couple videos about the Erebus disaster and the apparent coverup–but neither are ACI episodes, and ACI is supposed to include an episode about this story at some point. They tend to do the best job making the story both dramatic and accessible.

    Obviously, if you also are afraid of air travel, you may find these stories disturbing, and may want to give it a pass.  Text file contents follows:

    Wiki on Commercial Aircraft Incidents:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners

    Wiki on Commercial Aircraft Incidents for which there are no articles:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft/Holding_zone

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 1 ============================================

    Episode 1: Racing the Storm (American Airlines Flight 1420 – McDonnel-Douglas MD-82)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyemkle6yg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2lzs2mK_UY
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbxnlUbYMts
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvuj2OChf9U
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jU70QylMlw

    Episode 2: Unlocking Disaster (United Airlines Flight 811 – Boeing 747-122)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgylliYlzWg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EiMikUHX8
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuQ3UBZOh2c
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVv0cEn7BjU
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUjAqUHPAQ

    Episode 3: Flying On Empty (Air Transat Flight 236 – Airbus A330)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7pbYkVe4e4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTxkGvW7nJg
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRe6l_PEm0
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k6E_PpE0bg
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njc41rAwBvE

    Episode 4: Fire on Board (SwissAir Flight 111 – McDonnell Douglas MD-11)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaJsVGswSkM
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Alpou8Nmk
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPJ4nWpZvQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Mcpr8OAwM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pOaLk_u_M8

    Episode 5: Flying Blind (Aeroperu Flight 603 – Boeing 757)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6qitwkY3r8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_jrmJLz88
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJrCe50wfQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuLfM4JPIU
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVATqHPi7K4

    Episode 6: Cutting Corners (Alaska Airlines Flight 261 – McDonnell Douglas MD-83)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhNoNG4-S_s
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzI-0bE3Jw4
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzk2cETTsWc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpZD32NXkw
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59R427zn0DU

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 2 ============================================

    Episode 1: Blow Out (British Airways 5390 – BAC One-Eleven)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TuqaK3B0U
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx63wJcwz0s
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TEIqO72thk
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uC2fpOx_g
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nER1dJnZ-kM

    Episode 2: Wounded Bird (Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 – Embraer Brasilia)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQ2h95aFDU
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqazyv5ZnU
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7GnleA7DZw
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eSVKAd7sjw
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caYDZ5t1Mr0

    Episode 3: The Killing Machine (Air France 8969 – Airbus A300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-igkj24_DU
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2ZLUJ5H_s
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ3ATeCsep8
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9GjB1JP1Y
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKkAXes0Xi0

    Episode 4: Deadly Crossroads (Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 & DHL Flight 611 – Tupolev Tu-154M & Boeing 757-23APF)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0M3bOObUE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7opRvJTE2c
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfrcu2-anE
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N82n4vyjMXQ
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DrViy3iyfw

    Episode 5: LOST (American Airlines 965 – Boeing 757)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYjNp1ga6_E
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USuIYlUtV_A
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo37Of5WRFY
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UvWn4rsTJI

    Episode 6: Missing Over New York (Avianca Flight 52 – Boeing 707)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ytd1oVvb4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_m92pvkNII
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXu3TdFu94
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-We0cfz4v7Y
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATZe2ihcLJ4

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 3 ============================================

    Episode 1: Hanging by a Thread (Aloha Airlines Flight 243 – Boeing 737-297)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnkfgEmohc
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNKR-32xjk
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eMdWP_KNRc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxZiSSquJLY
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ4CS7v6yQI
      Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R24A0D3AOuw

    Episode 2: Attack Over Baghdad (European Air Transport DHL OO-DLL – Airbus A300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnI99rU5Zk
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZeYDGYmZI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYR-XeOuZE
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cNHn2nROU
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbpBXfHlOY

    Episode 3: Out of Control (Japan Airlines 123 – Boeing 747-SR46)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9PLVlYANsc
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDatccLqKrE
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X93lHLnf68M
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7KqqQ9EOM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clL2Ef309sI

    Episode 4: Suicide Attack (FedEx Flight 705 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVfCtPXDj0
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPunA1aUjE
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9UhwBCFVzw
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdbybZwmgwg
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8TIIXuYMc

    Episode 5: Mistaken Identity (Iran Air 655 – Airbus A300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k804MuO7bs
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUJd8ycE6_I
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvtOHOAVbw4
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6Ebd-VU_M
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKS2HlbsbNA

    Episode 6: Bomb on Board (Philippine Airlines Flight 434 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il4ZL8mkS8c
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4opEhojD440
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKHKmIOzqT8
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGMPJBeF3Q
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JDUF9AfVc

    Episode 7: Helicopter Down (Bristow Flight 56C – Eurocopter Super Puma)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEI6G6nkuSo
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pXIg_5PmA
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D87iyBSvs_o
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcN1B_483k
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbyb5L6BXwM

    Episode 8: Egyptair 990 (Egypt Air Flight 990 – Boeing 767-366ER)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QYJZBaQCds
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXHfaW8kEI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tilCfjRMuNQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzhtLjQiwM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKrkgerRGOY

    Episode 9: Kid in the Cockpit (Aeroflot Flight 593 – Airbus A310-304)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfF6-MYZB2s
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlqYnd2GNMA
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTwBDx_cek
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhofahK1f-Q
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmCn1pClOU

    Episode 10: African Hijack (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 – Boeing 767-260ER)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lpxb_1poGY
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P_KyBVwWCw
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19kk2-1wUQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aifDjp-OEaE
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOll4V0j8x0

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 4 ============================================

    Episode 1: Miracle Escape (Air France 358 – Airbus A340)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqS9qSDhyzg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WuyAa06_o
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvh05lILE1Y
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-uvqurs-4
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrpQjmeJeAQ

    Episode 2: Falling From the Sky (British Airways Flight 9 – Boeing 747-236B)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHvtpVr53A
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3pYl1s2CI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7QyvBr1ok
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgljHtz309U
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRfoMjJC6XI

    Episode 3: Fire Fight (Air Canada Flight 797)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qb24njO4HA
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUxzs4Pzyw
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXJOL0aoKdY
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtVXGa8ggF0
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKCzcCkI8Q

    Episode 4: Missed Approach (Korean Airlines Flight 801 – Boeing 747-300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2APdn7Qqw
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD_EidZezUw
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jET0V1htGgc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVJdiPFsYk
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hmUZXPS19Q

    Episode 5: Hidden Danger (United 585 & USAir 427 & Eastwind 517 – Boeing 737)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DVfZMFSi8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zZpr3JZHV8
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFOz2P-vCWA
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2xHHrSMyI
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFEyp-bcWQ

    Episode 6: Panic Over the Pacific (China Airlines 006 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_uUgOfBkDM
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ewEtvp0ZY
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3IEMFsVi4
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8si7qgS5s
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfE3dhJR88

    Episode 7: Out of Sight (Aeromexico Flight 498 & Piper 4891 – DC-9 & Piper PA-28-181 Archer)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSL9gSe2XMg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cggVVrMUrug
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gltP352zaDU

    Episode 8: Fog of War (USAF 21 – Boeing CT-43)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKetUidt-kg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78k7jLnkBM0
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX5e88s1t9Y
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO7Ef9wrN04
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5YPL-6wguM

    Episode 9: Desperate Dive (Flash Airlines Flight 604 – Boeing 737-300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-YIbIb9BA
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfIaoO9n-iE
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXt8s7XxL0
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4l9gt0X2qg
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryCF-KmHwI

    Episode 10: Ghost Plane (Helios Airways Flight 522 – Boeing 737-31S)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-ZGXq4biI
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0FQsnIAQg
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyo6DLw-jbY
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNLV18AqTE
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpyzARmT_Fs

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 5 ============================================

    Episode 1: Dead Weight (Air Midwest 5481 – Beechcraft 1900-D)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWj_MU1YgE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ25hwdpctI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y16_c6z7e1w
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6OSIA3GVvY
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVimGkTY_-M

    Episode 2: Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WRzQESDuc
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRS9vuzVnJU
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbuS8UOsE4
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6lHA1GijE
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81i9J2Zmij0

    Episode 3: The Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJIpA2gv1g
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ynI79lwkj4
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akrYdxQbfww
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHOS_YCu-s
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12dMmgTdBI

    Episode 4: Slammed to the Ground (Delta Flight 191 – Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw0_za-R6zE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixHiefGFopw
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC7zgVWW204
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSAj6VQ1kuc
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAQfE3ju04

    Episode 5: Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242 – DC-9)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySKsQQn_GQQ
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LcoK3nAaA
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWq2IpSfikQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCgLWh85Q-s
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC2U_xrds0

    Episode 6: Cargo Conspiracy (South African Airways Flight 295 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyg0PYW1WpU
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-7H9_QZ8E
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TVXcToFuAk
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO1ZW0H_GlM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoBP-dIiBJY

    Episode 7: Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hdz_OgFlY
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Rq1cGAPG8
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K3cHplQtDo
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCWLp9OfMT0
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k9G-_skEXA

    Episode 8: The Plane That Wouldn't Talk (Birgenair Flight 301 – Boeing 757)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDd2fL5XYSA
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2H0f8Rcu9U
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqr3eJX14v0
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf1STVfx1IQ
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdWSZQ2pCI

    Episode 9: Who's at the Controls? (Eastern Airlines 401)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dGmcMP8wP4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwuGJdONdk
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh8Ev65S1Iw
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyagA5fZ12Y
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77N2g2nqjgo

    Episode 10: Radio Silence (GOL FLIGHT 1907 & ExcelAire N600XL – Boeing 737-8EH SFP & Embraer Legacy 600)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhwVLBZbYE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_-5o4H1oo
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m123agyUtJA
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PfGn_6g32I
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDI1jrJ_oLI

    AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION – SEASON 6 ============================================

    Episode 1: Lockerbie (Pan Am Flight 103 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PND6RadwOmc
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT3QsyJixXo
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Whzs9qCEk
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_thl4BDeYfo
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDwYH3qXyns

    Episode 2: Head-on Collision (Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 & Air Kazakhstan 1907 -  Boeing 747 & Ilyushin Il-76)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtWylFUrak
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvUN59bZqQ
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixm6HwDWXiM
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9L9qsrw6Y
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3NCEjX2F8

    Episode 3: Shattered in Seconds (China Airlines 611 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sARVZfItER8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G73Y5RlnG4g
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtBzcQWbSA
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgHj2K_0uOo
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku9Ig8QK7EU

    Episode 4: Deadly Prize (Partnair Flight 394 – Convair 340-580)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1EGJtz9aKA
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzBIGcNMlM
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK2OneCTYQo
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TasrtoiB2_s
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXTJY32dByI

    Episode 5: Operation Babylift (Operation Babylift – Lockheed C-5A Galaxy)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZFtzWVOao
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwzZxipgNEA
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vsh1Y28_Tg
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3fQBe9FAbc
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlymyOywBCY

    Episode 6: Ditch the Plane (Tuninter Flight 1153 – ATR-72)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjbi4mz-0I
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DASFXNTKc
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnN9SdcAVpA
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BNWAurVnKA
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOpLpYP3o4

    Episode 7: The Plane That Vanished (Adam Air Flight 574 – Boeing 737-4Q8)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4heTtX7sY
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFgKCp4VrD4
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUR-rT0NXHg
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wG3l_UfkU
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZ1bvSqMPY

    Episode 8: Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184 – ATR-72)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe_QOpDzGQ
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8HqrwzKJg
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxzw5CfYEyk
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK9O9HHAWJ0
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devpipHf4zg
      Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_-sYq1YyJY

    Episode 9: Erebus Collision (Air New Zealand Flight 901 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30)
      Part 1: (missing)
      Part 2: (missing)
      Part 3: (missing)
      Part 4: (missing)
      Part 5: (missing)

    Episode 10: Who Caused the crash? (China Airlines Flight 140 – Airbus A300B4-622R)
      Part 1: (missing)
      Part 2: (missing)
      Part 3: (missing)
      Part 4: (missing)
      Part 5: (missing)

    SECONDS FROM DISASTER – SEASON 1 ==============================================

    Episode 1: Crash of the Concorde (Air France Flight 4590 – Concorde)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLYbdFUbiv8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-7M1g6nHrM
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHY2PyEwGtg
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0pN0izgF4
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY80nfjQ7sE

    Episode 12: Collision on the Runway (KLM 4805 & Pan Am 1736 – Boeing 747-206B & Boeing 747-121)
      Part 1: (missing)
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj3SRA_4T1Q
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmbxSiJpjk
      Part 4: (missing)
      Part 5: (missing)

    Episode 13: Pentagon 9/11  (American Airlines Flight 77 – Boeing 757)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wDzbbyaOI
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXhy8EDUXQ
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqpLY7ls_cc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_pOu0pRgI
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAp1Kp-7daw

    SECONDS FROM DISASTER – SEASON 2 ==============================================

    Episode 3: Motorway Plane Crash (British Midland Flight 092 – Boeing 737)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNmbT1BAptg
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zUx7hbH35M
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWN3beDUBnw
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrV7tmezD0
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cH2DSo7j7E

    Episode 7: Crash Landing at Sioux City (United Airlines Flight 232 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gURS5WRaI8g
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbVGhRd9Fo
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKEKi3eRQc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llll7LQCH9Q
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdzK-8ZvXeM

    Episode 10: TWA Flight 800 (TWA Flight 800 – Boeing 747-131)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN-QoHt3sqI
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ermJY1NmSy0
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvKvzTj6tw
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Houj7-9PEM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dCnamf_ZRY
      Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIAdniweToQ

    SECONDS FROM DISASTER – SEASON 3 ==============================================

    Episode 2: Amsterdam Air Crash (El Al Flight 1862 – Boeing 747)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDcvDAgwB8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htGV7MyRaJ8
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zroLRfHBr74

    Episode 6: Florida Swamp Air Crash (ValuJet Flight 592 – DC-9)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4iBh0HOzf4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwyGhb6E_6M
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqJYrWZdmkI

    Episode 9: Plane Crash in Queens (American Airlines 587 – Airbus A300)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WBDbLFeq8
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8hMNdzmVY
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcgM1eezb-0
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uxQ4CuC6U
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZfVp2wFns

    Episode 12: Plane Crash in the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90 – Boeing 737)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ww2rCbX94
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASBb-oMT5EU
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz34reivAqc
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oycu1pXxfaU

    Episode 14: Comet Air Crash (BOAC Flight 781 – de Havilland DH-106 Comet-1)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_qGRXHayk
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvT5ru6dhk
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNKM3fErPs4
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Z4HHRkW2E

    Episode 15: Chicago Air Crash (American Airlines Flight 191 – DC-10)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AemQQ3msO3M
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF0MLkxV1gI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaUg-BGWTLI
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK6BaFMfIdI
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5BZFByKaMk

    BLACK BOX =====================================================================

    Blackbox-01 – Sky Crimes (Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 – British Aerospace BAe 146-200 / Pan Am Flight 103 – Boeing 747 / FedEx Flight 705 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrT6joi4gco
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkWFIoVBXQ
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg-SxAAxs8Y
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoeHpaYkCHA
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0OPSByp2w

    Blackbox-02 – Deadly Weather (American Eagle Flight 4184 – ATR-72)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-wBlZl80M
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxX8pj3UbMM
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btmO5dQZ3ZM
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9cBD0MrjY
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wd7BTmkHs

    Blackbox-03 – Crash Detectives (TACA International Airlines Flight 510 – Boeing 767-2S1ER / ValuJet Flight 592 – DC-9 / British Midland Flight 092 – Boeing 737 / BOAC Flight 781 – de Havilland DH-106 Comet-1 / Turkish Airlines Flight 981 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 / British Airtours Flight 28M – Boeing 737-236)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWFDgJ_7QW4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLK76igZUA
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbwoOd7hfzQ
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0N5l1-IcQE
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsrCMxXOefQ

    Blackbox-04 – Wing and a Prayer (Aloha Airlines Flight 243 – Boeing 737-297 / Japan Airlines Flight 123 – Boeing 747-SR46 / United Airlines Flight 232 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syrj9NrTRMQ
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keQVlcoiOl0
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etADCyHab-E
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHyjPTXmGU
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmxioJxpcpo

    Blackbox-05 – Blaming the Pilot (Birgenair Flight 301 – Boeing 757 / British European Airways Flight 548 – Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C / KLM Flight 4805 & Pan Am Flight 1736 – Boeing 747-206B & Boeing 747-121 / Air Inter Flight 148 – Airbus A-320-111 / Air France Flight 296 – Airbus A320-111)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO7UAsFJtiE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnspI8P_wrc
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__sHqYEF204
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-7pwCUGO0o
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp-Dbb2CO4

    MISCELLANEOUS VIDEOS ==========================================================

    Crash of the Century – Tenerife Disaster (KLM Flight 4805 & Pan Am Flight 1736 – Boeing 747-206B & Boeing 747-121)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTl2xqD_Uus
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWsXCuo37k
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDciywJQQDM
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDz12GprQUw
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6wyLCJRkM
      Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZ6gOhcrKQ
      Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlE460KtEgI
      Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QuLxMJWcEs
      Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUB5clk4LLo

    SilkAir 185 Pilot Suicide? (Silk Air 185 – Boeing 737-36N)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fo_b5kwmCE
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7roHiREHy6I
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kavvTDQNvmo
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-Nk-mCT8Y
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ZIE2YIV_Y

    Munich Air Crash 1958 (British European Airways Flight 609 – Airspeed AS-57 Ambassador)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7NB9cVud0
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efe9dsW78WU
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrWfSPl36U
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1EjtwtrLMI
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfw6Ydz3Ic

    Erebus The Legacy (Air New Zealand Flight 901 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtzY11TDw4
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnNpjnYeTk
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWvqfOQlkI
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Q-kavsWqM
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfik_SQ9taE

    LOOKOUT: Flight 901 The Erebus Disaster (Air New Zealand Flight 901 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I48W897NwUY
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvNsrZIkBkI
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UT9uOa7iVg
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQrSqfErIRI
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Tlt3xP-CQ

    A320 Airbus Down, Mulhouse France 1988 (News Footage) (Air France Flight 296 – Airbus A320)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN6xtRuQh5o
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea28bUTUfiM

    The History of Air Traffic Control [NextGen / ADSB Technology] (United Airlines Flight 718 & TWA Flight 2 – Douglas DC-7 Mainliner & Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation / Aeromexico Flight 498 & Piper 4891 – DC-9 & Piper PA-28-181 Archer / Avianca Flight 52 – Boeing 707 / GOL FLIGHT 1907 & ExcelAire N600XL – Boeing 737-8EH SFP & Embraer Legacy 600 / Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 & DHL Flight 611 – Tupolev Tu-154M & Boeing 757-23APF)
      Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2msKMjYcM
      Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdwJ2koykss
      Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VhtxRuk4VY
      Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYLWYZ-3p0
      Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pipQhto9te8
      Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8Kzb7cvuI

    Plane crash…737 tries to land with gear up (audio! – 1989) (News Footage) (Piedmont Airlines Flight 1489 – Boeing 737-400)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7VQ8mIV10

    China Airlines MD-11 crashes in 1999 (China Airlines Flight 642 – McDonnell Douglas MD-11)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcgJYTQ7YFY

    B-52 Air Crash, Fairchild AFB June 24, 1991
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhZPAKkWi8

    Airplane Crash Landing on the 405 (Humor)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0bLgDyZZ8w

    Oh Yeah. I Have a Blog.

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    What I don't have is interest.  There's a lot going on in my life, and I'd rather get on with it than write about it.  Besides I doubt anybody really wants to read about it.  So I've been neither writing in my blog, nor really reading the blogs of others.  I check in on Aces Full and Pandora's Tea Room every now and again, but that is pretty much it.  I post on MOTL every now and again, but not too frequently now that the werewolf games were cancelled due to people taking them too seriously.

    What's been occupying my time is my photography business.  It seems to be picking up, which is great, because I simply love this work.  I did a school dance in February, and a photoshoot for an aspiring actor.  In May I did a costume shoot for a dance school which is the first shoot I've done where I can unequivocably say that I made pretty good money.

    June's been hopping.  I did a graduation shoot for a relative (no money, but I did some networking at the school while I was there that might turn into business), and a graduation party for the same relative.  This past Thursday night I shot the dress rehearsal for a stage production of a dance interpretation of Peter Pan.  Friday night I shot the eighth grade dance of a middle school in southeastern Massachusetts.  Then Saturday I shot the 1PM and 7PM performances of Peter Pan (42 Gb of pix in one day… yowza!)

    I wrote about this a little bit on a message forum, so I figured I'd share that here.

    June 12, 2009 11:01 AM

    Last night's shoot went well but I am exhausted. I took a chance and produced a 36″ x 24″ (poster size) print of the main cast (with some added text) and it came out GREAT. I was amazed. I expected at that size the image would be very fuzzy–you know “stand a few feet away and it will look fine”. Nope, it was nice and sharp. About 90 minutes of post production and cost about $50 to print, and I gave it to the dance school director as a gift.

    She went positively gaga over it and hung it immediately as a poster for her show. The kids loved it too.

    Of course I had a couple totally unrealistic parents come up to me after the show asking if I “had any extras” or would “give them one”. “These are quite expensive to print. Of course I can have one made and shipped to you but it would cost $100.” “Oh forget it then.” LOL. It's so hard to make money in this business unless you are doing weddings or products. For the costume shoot I spent 8 hours shooting, and 50 hours in post production. My total profit after printing and shipping was $800–that's $13.75 per hour and no matter what price you charge people think it's too much.

    Anyway the dress rehearsal shoot went great, apart from the 580 EX burning though batteries like there's no tomorrow. 4.5 hours of shooting, 1,105 pictures, 30 batteries eaten. I picked up a digital frame and loaded it with a bunch of work I've done over the last couple years and set that up next to the fliers–that got some attention. I had a number of people come up to me after the show and tell me how much they loved my work, which is always nice. We'll see if they still love me when I raise my prices next year. 

    So tonight I have a middle school dance to shoot, and then tomorrow I have to shoot the performances that I went to the dress rehearsal for. Busy few days!

    June 13, 2009 1:55 AM

    Tonight's Middle School Dance shoot was exhausting but fun. These kids were different that the kids at my daughter's middle school–they were a lot stiffer… nobody danced for like the first 90 minutes. I was like WTF? Heck I wanted to put the camera down and dance myself. The DJ was great, all the tunes were current.

    This was an 8th grade dance and soon the kids will all be going off to different highschools so there was a lot of emotionality… a lot of kids were crying toward the end… that doesn't exactly make for a nice photo.

    Kids at my daughter's art school are also more hammy for the camera, these kids pretty much constantly ducked and hid whenever the camera showed up. This behavior drives me nuts, I'm being paid to shoot the dance, these kids are bawling that they're not going to see their friends again, and they're not going to have pictures of their friends to remember because they're too busy responding to the camera in the way they've been trained to respond “ooh don't take my picture I look ugly”. You just want to say “Jesus, grow up already.” Sometimes I say to them “this may come as a surprise, but we can all see you… we already know what you look like.” No matter, I just switched to the 200mm and shot long… you get nice closeups that way and the kids don't know who is being photographed.

    All in all I think it went well. Two big shoots tomorrow… man am I beat.

    June 13, 2009 9:44 AM

    Fell out of bed about 8:20… showered, shaved, and will be heading out for the third and biggest of this weeks three shoots. What an exhausting time this has been! No flash today ('cept before and after) so I shouldn't need a frickin' gross of AA batts…

    June 14, 2009 7:37 PM

    Yesterday's shoots were positively EXHAUSTING! But I think it went well. At the end of the afternoon performance I knew I was in trouble tho… I had shot 20+ Gb of pictures, and I only had 22 Gb in CF cards with me. I had time before the 7PM performance so I went to best buy and purchased another 20 Gb of CF memory (1x 8 GB, 3x 4 Gb). During the second performance I shot the entire remaining 22 Gb. For the after photos I had to switch from RAW to JPG, and pull out my old “emergency card”–a 512 mB card that I've often questioned why I still carry it. Thank heavens I had it!

    But 42 jigglebytes in a single day is some outrageous shooting. About 3,500 pictures. Sorting through this is going to be fun. Lightroom is chewing on them now and probably will be until tomorrow.

    Emma was able to perform as Peter Pan, which was nice, though she had to hold back and give a slightly more subdued performance to prevent further injury to her ankle. It was nice seeing her dance at all though.

    The “movie poster” was a big hit. About 700 people filed past it and every time I went out into the hall to shoot candids there were people looking at it and my digital frame (yay!). The thing I liked best was when I caught the dancers looking at it, they really liked it and it made for some nice photos. Have I mentioned how much I love this work?

    I got more compliments and requests on Saturday, some people looking to buy the poster print. I added it to the show gallery and enabled large format printing options (and T-shirts, which my lab has begun to offer).

    So now begins the long slog of post processing. But with so many pictures to choose from I should be able to come up with some that are sure to please. And the post work should be hella easier than the costume shoot was.

    Gonna be a lot of busy nights tho… but not today, today I am recuperating… 12 hours of driving over the last 3 days, getting home every night after 1 AM, sore as heck from shooting…

    (Good news, I had two orders today from earlier galleries. Yay! Only $70 but I'm taking it as a good sign.)

    Wow am I beat. But it's a good kind of beat, when you feel like you accomplished something.

    On a quick run through the performance photos I found a nice little series. Peter Pan was not on a wire, so she got about by making beautiful acrobatic leaps. I managed to snap a series of leaps (on the tail end of the leap as she was coming down) as she leapt around the dancer playing the part of Wendy Darling. In the series it looks like Peter is flying…  Sweet!

    SQL Server 2000 – Detailed Structure Query

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    I spent several hours mining Google and tweaking to get this query right.  This has never been a technical blog, but considering what a pain this was to chase down, I figured I should post it here for others.

    This query will list all the tables and columns in a SQL Server 2000 database, including column data type, length, precision, scale, nullable flag, if the column is part of a unique constraint, if the column is part of the primary key, the foreign table referenced by the column if it is a foreign key, and the default value of the column if it has one.

    The output is suitable for pasting into Excel or Word to create database reports.  (Yes I'm sure there are 3rd party tools, and stored procedures to get all this info, but what I needed was ONE query which did it all and returned it as this query does.)

    select T.name as TableName, C.colorder, C.name as ColumnName, TY.name as datatype,
           c.length, c.prec, c.scale, c.isnullable, UO.name as UniqueConstraint,
           IX.name as PKConstraint, SR.name as ReferencesTable, SM.Text as DefaultValue
from sysobjects as T
 inner join syscolumns as C on (C.id = T.id)
 inner join systypes as TY on (TY.xtype = C.xtype)
  left join sysindexkeys as K on C.colid = K.colid and K.id=T.id
  left join sysindexes as I on I.id=T.id and I.indid=K.indid
  left join sysobjects as IX on IX.parent_obj=T.id and IX.name = I.name and IX.xtype='PK'
  left join sysconstraints as CO on (C.colid=CO.colid and CO.id=T.id)
  left join sysforeignkeys as FK on (T.id = FK.fkeyid and FK.constid=CO.constid)
  left join sysobjects as SR on (SR.id = FK.rkeyid)
  left join syscomments SM on C.cdefault = SM.id 
  left join sysindexkeys as UK on C.colid = UK.colid and UK.id=T.id
  left join sysindexes as UI on UI.id=T.id and UI.indid=K.indid
  left join sysobjects as UO on (UO.parent_obj=T.id and UO.name=UI.name and UO.xtype='UQ')
where T.xtype = 'U'
order by T.name, C.colorder;

    You can see a screenshot of the output here.