Northwest Flight Overshoots Airport by 150 Miles

A Northwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot its destination by 150 miles Wednesday and failed to make radio contact with an air traffic controller for 75 minutes. Fighter jets were readied, federal officials stormed the plane upon landing, and the pilots said they missed Minneapolis because "they were having a heated argument about work."

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British Agency Pulls 'Fagot' and 'Dikes' License Plates from Auction

Two license plates have been pulled from an auction of personalized plates by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in the UK:

"The two registrations – F4 GOT and D1 KES – were to have been among 1,600 auctioned at a sale this week. But Stonewall, the gay rights charity, objected to the DVLA profiting from the sale of the insulting numberplates and they were dropped from the auction, which is expected to raise £3.5million...Stonewall argued that F4 GOT – due to go under the hammer for at least £900 – could, when displayed on a car, be read as ‘FAGOT’, a derogatory term used to refer to gay men. Likewise, campaigners said, D1 KES could be read as ‘DIKES’ – similar to the insulting term ‘DYKES’ levelled at lesbians. That plate also had a £900 reserve. The registrations will still appear in the catalogue for the auction on Wednesday in a hotel in Broadway, Worcestershire. But when the lots come up the auctioneer will announce that they are no longer for sale. James Lawrence, of Stonewall, which is supported by a host of celebrities including comic Alan Carr, singer Dannii Minogue and ex-EastEnders star Michael Cashman, said last night: ‘It is regrettable that personalised numberplates that could clearly cause offence were made available."

Goose Bloodies, Dents Nose of Plane in Collision at LaGuardia

Here's a part two to my earlier post. A goose dented and bloodied the nose of a Boeing MD-80 from Boston landing at LaGuardia last night:

"The crew of Flight 1393 'followed all established procedures and landed without incident,' Delta spokesman Kent Landers said. Nobody was hurt. An airport worker who saw the plane taxi to the gate said people on the runway were stunned. 'There was blood on the nose of the plane all the way up to the windshield,' he said. 'There was a big dent. I saw feathers attached to the plane.' The worker said the pilot was 'amazed' when he got out of the plane to inspect the damage."

Pictured: 200 Birds Get Sucked into Plane's Engine at Take-off

Not what anyone would like to see out the window. A flight was caught in a swarm of starlings as it took off from Dusseldorf to Kosovo. 

News: Autumn, Provincetown, Starbucks, Trevor Donovan, Lutherans

Is the Westboro Baptist Church distributing flyers that read "Kill Jews" around Brooklyn? Sounds like it.

Guess what? It's leaf peeping time.

Anderson Cooper, swine flu victim?

Capital Territory tries again for marriage equality, again faces government opposition.

This is it: Michael Jackson media blitz begins.

Elizabeth Taylor wants to be buried next to MJ? "After sitting through Michael's funeral service at the Great Mausoleum, with its magnificent stained-glass windows and replicas of Michelangelo's artworks, she later told friends, 'I felt a sense of peace there that I've never experienced before.'"

Chapel Hill, North Carolina to woo gay travelers: “We are looking at this from a purely economic perspective.”

Michelle Phillips says Mackenzie is lying about the incest.

Disgusting: NOM targets Californians Against Hate activist Fred Karger with subpoena in retaliation for his investigations of their spending toward anti-gay ballot measures.

Provincetown gay basher Eric Patten slapped with civil rights injunction. You may recall that Patten beat up a lesbian on Commercial Street and pushed her through a window after mistaking her for a gay man.

Office of Special Counsel reopens to federal workers who face anti-gay harassment on the job: "The decision effectively puts to an end any confusion caused by a directive instituted under the Bush administration that had restricted the federal agency from representing certain anti-gay discrimination cases sought by employees of the U.S. government. In 2004 then Office of Special Counsel head Scott Bloch declared that federal law did not protect workers who faced on-the-job discrimination based on their sexual orientation or 'status' as gays and lesbians."

Ian McKellen honored at San Sebastian Film Festival.

90210 hunk Trevor Donovan flashes A/X shoppers.

Starbucks app uses iPhone to pay for lattes.

Long tarmac delays to be banned: "The Capitol Hill event drew both supporters and critics of the legislation, which would force airlines to create plans to deplane passengers after three hours and would require them to provide basic services such as food and water while they are waiting on planes."

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America begs its members not to withhold donations over its recent decision to allow gay and lesbian clergy: "Although these actions are promoted as a way to signal opposition to churchwide assembly actions or even to punish the voting members who made them, the result will be wounds that we inflict on ourselves, our shared life, and our mission in Christ."

Australia's first gay retirement home hits roadblocks: "Those interested in buying off the plan will now have to wait until early 2010 for the Ballan-based village. The $26 million Linton Estate project has experienced a series of delays since it was announced in July last year, with the global financial crisis and thrashing out suitable floor plans being blamed."

This is Depressing

A proposed redesign of the interior of commercial aircraft which would pack in 50% more travelers by seating them like troops, in rows facing one another.