We’re an African country? Lawd, my map must be all confusculated!

Exactly! See below ...

Just because they HAVE lights, it doesn’t mean they’re on, or can be turned on. I remember one night when an emergency medical airlift was required from Eleuthera and nobody could locate the guy who had the key to the office at GHB to turn on the runway lights.

The new generation of LED lighting is cheap, easy to install and draws very little current. They could be set to light up from “dusk-to-dawn”, automatically, at very little expense. But nooooo ... we gotta use that kinda money to send dozens of VIPs on very-important trade missions to Absurdistan.

They are not responsible for the plane crash. Nobody said they were. They are responsible for not being able to find the wreckage, in 80’ of crystal clear water, exactly where they were told a week earlier the plane had gone down. A volunteer guy with a snorkel and a mask found it in 40 minutes. Try to read. Try to keep up.

Hah, true dat, Tal ... ;-) Basically, tho, what the French did was cut off the British fleet that was en route to support Cornwallis at Yorktown, forcing the final surrender. The Yanks had help from a couple of French and German generals who assisted with training, but the ground troops were pretty much all colonials. But you do know your history better than this dude.

The man does not know his history well. Within 6 years of going from colonials to a free nation, the American army defeated the British army and navy, then the most powerful force on earth. He’s worse at history than he is at organization. But he is a pretty fair hand at making excuses.

They had help ... they were told exactly where to look. This was not exactly difficult. A couple of amateurs managed to find the wreckage in 40 minutes. Making excuses just enables ineptitude.

Bullsh*t, Tal. This group of volunteers accomplished in 40 minutes what our supposed highly-skilled professionals could not accomplish in a week. They found the plane *exactly* where the government was told it would be from the start. And your use of the phrase “aviation authorities” is a joke. Those the same “authorities” who allow bandit commuter flights every freakin’ day of the week? Spare me.

Nothing but gobble-speak and excuses and bureaucratic mumbles for a week, and a gang of volunteers on snorkels and recreational scuba gear find this plane in just 40 minutes, right where the government was told, a week earlier, it would be. The incompetence is astonishing.

Amen. Say it, brother.