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Doug_Rodrigues

I'm not the one who needs help. The taxpayers are the ones who needs help. Nothing will come of this Court decision. The same old bureaucrats will continue as they always have. By tomorrow this whole case will be forgotten by all but those intimately involved. NDOT's good old boy system won't change. Maybe our new Governor can do something about this mess.

The above article got me so fird up that I did some research. The Chief Pilot, last name Phillips, was demoted to the classification of Pilot, but kept his $90,000 a year pay "for the good of the State!" Anybody with a functioning brain would know that "for the good of the State" should have meant that Phillips should have been terminated for intentionally making it a habit of flying unsafely! There was also something mentioned about Phillips continuing to operate the plane with a cracked windshield, keeping in mind that this is a pressurized airplane! It's all there in the FAA investigation. I'll repeat myself: All of those corrupt bureaucrats who allowed this injustice to happen should be terminated! Of course if you readers don't care about how your tax dollars are spent, or don't care about fools are running government offices, then you can just yawn and turn to the sports section of the newspaper.

It would appear that State Government is just as capable of corruption as Federal Government in the firing of Mr. Richardson. Whistle blowers are Patriots who want honesty in whatever they bring to light. In this situation, Mr. Richardson had the common sense to attempt to stop routine unsafe operation by the Chief Pilot. What did Mr. Richardson get for his concern?....He got fired! What happened to the Chief Pilot? I heard that the FAA was investigating him! In hindsight, Mr. Richardson should have been promoted to the Chief Pilot position, and the now terminated Chief Pilot should have been fired! However, with the Good Old Boy system in Government jobs, it's who you know.

As a Citizen and tax payer of the State of Nevada for 49 years, I believe that any and all persons involved in the firing of Mr. Richardson should they themselves be terminated and all of their retirement benefits should be withheld to pay for future punitive actions by Mr. Richardson. A great wrong has been done. Let those who intentionally did that wrong pay for it out of their own pockets!

Develop the alternative energy resources first, and only then consider not drilling. Why continue to spend 700 Billion dollars every year for foreign oil? Spend that money here, and keep that money here! Enough of the partisan politics already!

I think I missed an article. For the Navajo, there was an engine failure with a fire after takeoff, he was trying to turn around but landed between two houses. Pretty good trick for a 40 foot wingspan airplane. Be tough enough for a little Cessna single engine to do. That's all I know? The guy was a good pilot to pull that off. I'm sure if it was within the ability of the Navajo to make it back to the airport, that's exactly what he would have done