Best magazine articles - Over at Ace of Spades, there was a link to the best magazine articles ever and my mind immediately jumped to the wonderful author (and former airline pilot) William Langewiesche and his Atlantic magazine article "The Crash of EgyptAir 990."

If a magazine article or book or blog is supposed to evoke vivid images and make you think, then this article has it all. One thing I'll never forget from this article is the assessment of an official from the NTSB who must listen to the cockpit voice recorders. He said that every recording starts the same way - the pilot says: "What the hell was that?" That wasn't the case with EgyptAir 990 which plunged into the ocean under, um, less-than-mysterious circumstances.