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(4/26/23)—In this overview/monitoring process, Vamigré will closely track and graph terror alerts and threat potential by area/destination, along with stats and trends on crime, traffic and other bodily hazards/dangers by mode/destination, for instance: Bird Strike Too: So Hard...

5/26/21—What started out as a freakish ‘tramgedy’, symptomatic of Italy’s creaky facilities and crumbling transportation infrastructure—the worst since a decaying Genoa bridge collapsed three years ago, killing 43—may have been no accident at all. Because...

Global Villagence. Travel in a turbulent world is all too often in a treacherous world as well. Thus we hereby launch a network of global vigilance among our expanding VamoCitizenry, a concerted system of mobile awareness and surveillance, plus reportage/recording of conditions,...

  Accidents and Incidents (Premise). At the Heart of a Lion (Premise). With JT 610’s flight data recorder having been deciphered and analyzed, its cockpit voice recorder being readied for scrutiny, the various crash investigation teams have begun crossfiring around,...

 VamoSetbacks: Incidents & Accidents (Premise). The NTSB released a 14-page report November 14, 2019 on the July, 2018 Branson accident, officially declaring that the Coast Guard has been ducking implementation of nearly half of the safety board’s requirements for these...

What brings down a rather newly commissioned airliner? That is the key question amid the disintegrated debris field of this week’s Lionized jet crash, shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia.   Barely minutes aloft, the pilot of Lion Air’s flight JT 610 radioed...

 VamoSafety & Security (Premise). Piracy, Politics in Peru. (11/4/22)—A scenic boat ride in northern Highland Peru turned high-seas buccaneery Thursday, when a local indigenous community commandeered the tourist river craft in protest of a recent nearby oil spill. Some 70...

VamoSetbacks: Incidents & Accidents (Premise). Clouds Over the Horizon. “Take a pause…refocus…get us back to the Safety First Philosophy…” So said Captain John Hornibrook, Horizon Air’s VP head of flight operations, after a spate of...

 VamoSetbacks: Incidents & Accidents (Premise). If the Aeromexico plunge in Durango, Mexico teaches anything, it is that certain such disasters can be survived, with a measure of preparation, cooperative presence of mind, and planeloads of just plain luck. So was it a...

VamoSetbacks: Incidents and Accidents (Premise): In VamoSummary, contrails of SWA Flight 1380’s deadly April 17 midair engine malfunction continue to cloud the commercial aviation industry—from the tragic death of passenger, Jennifer Riordan to the general airworthiness of...