[cyn]

Put this with Airtran flight 297 on 11.17.09 and United flight 227 on 12.09.09 (I'm a broken record here, but some might not know).

Note scarcity of media coverage on those two above incidents, and I'm thankful that flight 253 makes getting this info -- for the moment, anyway -- a bit easier to get.

[Palladin]

Yup! The “practice runs” are increasing in frequency. They are trying to perfect a technique.

Thank God for their epic fail on Christmas Day!