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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am very glad my next international trip will by by train.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Harder to do for us in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Alright, alright! I'll let you borrow my emu for the week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How exactly would you leave Australia by train?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Train goes onto ship, ship sails out, train continues on the other end :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fine. Take my upvote, dad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This actually exists in a couple places. For instance, the rail connection between mainland Italy and Sicily is by boat with the train on the boat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A really big ramp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use your imagination!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hard for us in America too, but it's because our trains suck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until it derails die to shitty track maintenance, or a drunk consuctor

Accidents happen everywhere and airplanes are about the safest mode of transport

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer my crashes to be remedied by holding a button for seven seconds.