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Though Im fine with pointing out the general dim-wittedness of the Fox News hosts, and frankly the rest of cable news, the question Anna Kooiman asked isnt as clear-cut stupid as its being made out. While the West uses Standard Imperial Units for aviation, a sizable portion of Asia uses the metric system. Russia, China, Mongolia and many nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States use metric for their flight levels, distance and air speed. Hong Kong continues to use Imperial Units. Most commercial craft are now equipped to make those transitions without the pilot having to do conversions between units, but there have been incidents in the past. Planes have smacked into mountainsides because 5000 feet is about two miles lower than 5000 meters. Granted, the missing flight in question was not passing over any of the nations currently using metric flight. So, sure, shes probably about par for the Fox crew of bubble heads, but the articles hurling scoffy snark at her are about as much in error. ifyouonlynews/videos/painfully-stupid-fox-hosts-speculate-that-the-metric-system-is-to-blame-for-missing-airasia-flight-video/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:41:01 +0000

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