Sir Robert Mark GBE KStJ QPM (13 March 1917 – 30 September 2010) was a senior British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Leicester City Police, and later as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977. (wikipedia)
It's not just a matter of the cost of the airplane vs. the cost of an airline ticket, ... You have to factor in the amount of time an executive wastes waiting for connecting flights or being forced to stay overnight on the road instead of flying direct.
When you break out of the clouds on a snowy night like that, you don't try to do a nice squeaky smooth landing. You plant the plane down onto the runway.
The criminal trial today is a kind of show-jumping contest in which the rider for the prosecution must clear every obstacle to succeed.
There must be justice for the accuser as well as for the accused
