The Times Planet Blog (blogs.thetimes.co.za):
… pilot. He is also the voice of reason behind Ask The Pilot, a punchy and accurate column on the world of commercial aviation, which is the kind that affects us travellers. In the wake of Air France 447 - about which Smith has thoroughly rubbishedsome of the hysteria and conjecturecurrently circulating in forums and rumour mills - Ask The Pilot should be required reading for everyone who flies, whether they are nervous fliers or old pros. “Flight 447’s perfect storm”, his account of what might have gone …

Common Sense and Whiskey (commonsenseandwhiskey.typepad.com):
… aviation writer Joe Sharkey and his readers. You'd expect Sharkey to have something to say; He has a history with the Brazilian air traffic system, having been involved in a previous crash ( 1, 2 ) in Brazil. And then there's Patrick Smith ( 1,2), the Ask the Pilot columnist at Slate. …

Jacob Grier (www.jacobgrier.com):
… Evolution of the house cat Becker on healthcareAsk the pilot: Turbulence and lightningNew York’s underground circus community What the Rose Garden can learn from KC “Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn’t great is lying to you.” The escalating scale of drunkenness Attn LA readers: Intelly Veni …

The Chicago Blog (pressblog.uchicago.edu):
… search, debris from the crash has been difficult to locate, and today Brazilian officials announced what had been pulled from the ocean thus far was likely not from the doomed flight. The cause of the catastrophe, as well, remains a topic of heatedspeculation: the flight encountered bad weather and turbulence four hours into its journey, but was that enough to cause a modern jet to plunge into the sea? Our weather and aviation expert Jack Williams, author of The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to …

Impressões Digitadas (impressoesdigitadas.wordpress.com):
… de Marcelo Coelho, na Folhaonline sobre o assunto. Nele, Marcelo Coelho dizia que os jornais estavam esmiuçando e conjecturando mil teorias sobre o desastre sem encontrar respostas e indicava um ótimo site para tirar dúvidas, o “Ask the pilot“. Nele o piloto Patrick Smith explica tudo sobre aviação como se tivéssemos 5 anos. A respeito do Airbus francês ele tece opiniões bem interessantes. Vale a pena dar uma conferida. …

Brilliant at Breakfast (brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com):
… hrough the same storm not long before. Everyone hates flying in thunderstorms for just this reason -- the sometimes violent turbulence makes us feel as if the plane is going to break apart in midair, which i nvestigators now think is what happened to Air france #447. Butas journalist and former airline pilot Patrick Smith points out, the industry and its crews can no longer say that there is ZERO chance of weather causing a plane to crash all by itself. The chance may be infinitesimal, but it is not zero. But can we be absolutely sure? Perhaps it's a function of no longer having …

The Garlic (puregarlic.blogspot.com):
… at the beginning of our descent, that a "training pilot" is doing the honors of landing the plane. What the hell is this, barber school? Patrick Smith, in Salon today, has a good read, on the terrible plane crash in Brasil the other day.Why the Air France plane crashed ... Flight 447 shouldn't have gone down, but it did. Were normally non-dangerous phenomena the culprits?Lightning and turbulence. Did one or a combination of these things cause the crash of Air France Flight 447 over the South Atlantic on Sunday evening? The evidence, scant as it is, suggests it might have. I was asleep in my hotel room, here in the monstrous city of Sa …