Now that's funny. Those of us in both the aviation and the civil
engineering fields use the term all the time.

Try a rant about something else?

Shawn
"CASK829" wrote in message
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Why is it that idiot reporters use the term "TARMAC"? Nobody in the
aviation
world uses that term do they? But then again reporters usually know
abolutely
nothing about aviation. What inspired this rant? The recent reporting on
the
US Airways baggage situation and the Northwest airlines flight that kept
the
passengers on the airplane for 14 hours. On another note did Northwest
lose a
lawsuit awhile back for keeping people on an airplane while they sat on
the
ground for a very long time. If I remember correctly there was talk of
false
imprisonment charges against the airline.