The glacial speed of progress

Only 24 years after an airplane skidded off the end of a runway in an accident that killed two people, Boston's Logan Airport thinks it might be almost ready to address the problem.

Curiously, the airport's history neglects to mention this.

A Salon account of the incident reports that the two bodies were never found. The reporter, then young, saw it himself: "I remember how strangely clean the fuselage had been broken, as if the nose had been cut away with a hacksaw, or cracked open around a perforated ring."

MeTheSheeple and Mrs. Sheeple will be passing through Logan Airport soon. This may contribute to a pucker factor.