I only seem to post off-topic messages nowadays, but several hours ago, a
Korean 747 slammed into the side of Nimitz Hill on Guam. Apparently
fatalities will number about 300.

I mention this because earlier in the year I posted a picture of myself
standing on the top of Nimitz Hill, very near the location of the crash, in
association with a trivia game that HP was playing on their web site. The URL
for that picture is:

     http://aics-research.com/history1.html

The Agana International Airport, where the 747 was heading, can actually be
seen in the upper right of the photograph. All of the time that I was there,
I thought that we might well be scraped off the top of the mountain by the
crash of an approaching aircraft. The satellite tracking antennas that you
see in the photograph would occasionally be so disturbed by the wash of the
passing aircraft that they would clang into each other. And the floodlights
that you can see in the picture were installed not so that we could see
better but rather to illuminate the white tracking vans as brightly as
possible to give the pilots better warning that we were there.

Wirt Atmar