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Lethal United States airline company crashes given that 2001
An American Airlines regional traveler jet was associated with a midair collision on Wednesday night with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, authorities stated. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said on social networks that we know there are casualties, though he did not say how many. These are the last 10 fatal airline company crashes to take place in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. National Transport Board and the Flight Security Structure's Air travel Safety Network: 2009 A Colgan Air turboprop crashed on technique to landing in Buffalo, New York, eliminating all 49 individuals on board and someone on the ground. 2006 A Comair local jet overran the runway when taking off from Lexington, Kentucky, and crashed, killing 49 of the 50 people on board. 2005 A Chalk's Ocean Airways turboprop crashed after takeoff from Miami, Florida, killing all 20 people on board. 2004 A Corporate Airlines turboprop crashed on approach to landing in Kirksville, Missouri, killing 13 of the 15 individuals on board. 2003 A United States Airways Express turboprop crashed after launch from Charlotte, North Carolina, eliminating all 21 individuals on board. NOVEMBER 2001 In November, an American Airlines jet crashed after leaving from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, eliminating all 260 people on board and 5 individuals on the ground. SEPT. 11, 2001 A pirated American Airlines jet departed from Boston and crashed into the World Trade Center structure in New York, killing all 92 people on board. Around 1,600 people likewise passed away on the ground. A hijacked United Airlines jet that departed from Boston also crashed into the World Trade Center, killing all 65 people on board. About 900 people were killed on the ground. A pirated American Airlines jet that left from Washington-Dulles International Airport crashed into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people on board. Around 125 people passed away on the ground. A pirated United Airlines jet that left from Newark, New Jersey, crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people on board.
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British Company - Jan 30
The following are the leading stories on the business pages of British papers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not attest their accuracy. The Times - Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary has actually stated that he anticipates U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will be far more encouraging of the hoped-for healing at Boeing than the previous administration. - British automotive parts provider Dowlais has become the current British public business to attract interest from a U.S. peer American Axle after agreeing on an offer that values the group at 1.2 billion pounds ($ 1.49 billion). The Guardian - Microsoft backed OpenAI has actually cautioned that Chinese start-ups are continuously using its innovation to establish contending items and said it is examining accusations that DeepSeek used the ChatGPT maker's Artificial Intelligence( AI). designs to create a competing chatbot. - Lloyds Banking Group has actually exposed strategies to shut. another 136 branches, weeks after a policy enabling clients to. do their in-person banking across any of its 3 brand names. triggered fears that employers might close up to a quarter of its. high street websites. The Telegraph - British financing minister Rachel Reeves should get ready for a. significant dive in defence costs as geopolitical pressures. mount, Bank of England Guv Andrew Bailey has cautioned. - In a letter to British finance minister Rachel Reeves, 14. industry chiefs urged the Treasury to think about a 50% cut to the. Barrel charged on new electric automobiles or lowering barrel for public. charging bays anticipating that government-backed incentives would. aid enhance sales. Sky News - German supermarket chain Lidl has been given approval by a. High Court to open its very first club in Northern Ireland.
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Regional jet hits helicopter near Washington's Reagan Airport
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday night that a PSA Airline companies regional jet collided midair with a Sikorsky H60 helicopter while on technique to Reagan Washington National Airport. PSA was operating Flight 5342 for American Airlines, which had actually left from Wichita, Kansas, according to the FAA. According to American Airlines' website, the jet has a capability for as much as 65 passengers. Police said multiple companies were associated with a search and rescue operation in the Potomac River, which surrounds the airport but that there was no immediate word on casualties. The airport stated late on Wednesday that all launches and landings had been stopped emergency personnel reacted to an aircraft event. The National Transportation Security Board said it was collecting more details on the incident.
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Exposed utility wires might have added to LA's Eaton Fire, law office states
A law office representing victims of the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles has submitted images with a legal filing on Wednesday that appear to show exposed wire at the base of a Southern California Edison tower that the firm declares might have added to the fatal blaze. The Eaton Fire was amongst the greatest of several wildfires that emerged on Jan. 7 and spread out rapidly in powerful Santa Ana Winds across the Los Angeles location. The wildfires are potentially the most pricey catastrophe in U.S. history. Photos and video show stimulates or flames near the energy's transmission devices have currently been submitted in lawsuit against SCE, but the brand-new images may be the first to show burnt and exposed, or unburied, wire. Throughout prospective arcing at the transmission towers, the exposed wires leading up to the bottom of the facilities might have actually heated up to the point of igniting neighboring vegetation, stated complainant's attorney Alexander Robertson. The arcing could have sent a shower of sparks and molten metal down to the ground, triggering a fire, the law practice said. The exposed grounding wire is charred on the pictures and most likely acted like a wick on a candle light to fire up the brush at the base of the tower, lawyer Robertson stated. We don't yet understand if this was the sole or contributing ignition source, however the physical proof suggests it was at least a contributing cause, stated Robertson. The fire's cause is still under examination, consisting of by main government firms and Southern California Edison. An SCE spokesperson slammed law practice for sharing information, such as prospective evidence, with the media when they must be sharing the info with authorities. Our investigation into all possible involvement of SCE's. equipment continues, Southern California Edison spokesperson. Kathleen Dunleavy said. Robertson and experts with his company caught the images of. SCE's devices by hiking to SCE towers along the ridge of. foothills near Altadena and releasing drones earlier this month. Earlier in the week, SCE stated a preliminary review of its. information for transmission lines that run through towers, including. the one inspected by Robertson, revealed no indication of faults. on the lines until more than an hour after the reported start. time of the blaze. Electrical faults can sometimes cause arcing, which is. basically a spark that jumps between two conductors. The Robertson and Associates' images were captured near the. ARCO station where monitoring video revealed two brief arcs at. the top of an SCE tower. That security video was reported earlier in the week by. the New York Times and other news outlets and has actually considering that been. pointed out in legal filings. SCE stated in a statement on Monday that it was evaluating the. video.
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US to rescind Biden highway climate guideline for states
The U.S. Transport Department stated on Wednesday it prepares to rescind an environment guideline embraced by the administration of previous President Joe Biden needing states to determine and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles using the national highway system. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, who was tapped by President Donald Trump, approved a proposition to reverse the Biden guideline after it had actually been blocked by a federal court stating it reflected a dedication to unleashing American energy and getting rid of illegal regulatory concerns. Separately Duffy said Tuesday he was taking the first step to roll back stringent Corporate Typical Fuel Economy requirements for passenger automobiles and heavy trucks provided under Biden. Texas and 21 other states sued USDOT arguing the company lacked legal authority to enact the rule in 2023. The Biden administration rule did not mandate specific targets and offered state transport departments flexibility to set proper targets that aimed to reduce emissions over time. The guideline said it would examine progress but did not impose charges for missing out on targets. In 2018, the first Trump administration reversed a guideline issued under then-President Barack Obama needing states to track highway greenhouse gas emissions. Recently, Trump took aim at electrical vehicles, withdrawing a. 2021 executive order signed by Biden that sought to ensure half. of all brand-new automobiles offered in the United States by 2030 were. electrical. Trump likewise swore to stop distribution of unspent federal government. money for vehicle-charging stations from a $5 billion fund,. required ending a waiver for states to adopt zero-emission. lorry guidelines by 2035, and stated his administration would. think about ending EV tax credits. The Biden USDOT stated the guideline was important to its target. of net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050, but the final. policy did not need states to set declining targets to. align with the 2050 goal.
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Brazil, U.S. authorities accept discuss how deported migrants are treated
Brazilian and U.S. authorities agreed on Wednesday to go over routinely how Washington will deport migrants from Brazil, as some leaders in Latin America have balked at what they view as bad treatment of their citizens on repatriation flights. Brazil's foreign affairs ministry stated in a social media post that the talks will be led by authorities from the ministry and the U.S. embassy, after the ministry summoned a senior U.S. diplomat previously this week over the treatment of recent deportees that regional officials condemned as degrading. U.S. President Donald Trump, who took workplace recently, has intensified a crackdown on illegal migration to the United States that has consisted of deportations utilizing military airplanes and shackling of migrants. The ministry noted that the new working group will exchange info and ensure security and dignified and considerate treatment for Brazilians on allowed deportation flights. The ministry added the celebrations have consented to develop a. direct line of interaction to follow flights in real time. The push for increased discussion over the politically. delicate problem comes after Colombia and the United States. pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday provoked by. a spat over deportation flights. Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski stated on Wednesday that. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had actually asked Foreign. Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira to look for a new agreement with. the United States over the deportations. The president wants to make sure that Brazilians are returned. with a minimum of self-respect and that their essential rights are. respected, Lewandowski said.
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Trump administration to cancel trainee visas of pro-Palestinian protesters
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and vowed to deport noncitizen university student and others who took part in proPalestinian demonstrations. A reality sheet on the order guarantees instant action by the Justice Department to prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews and marshal all federal resources to fight what it called the explosion of antisemitism on our schools and streets since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. To all the resident aliens who took part the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notification: come 2025, we will discover you, and we will deport you, Trump said in the truth sheet. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have actually been infested with radicalism like never ever previously, the president said, echoing a. 2024 project pledge. Rights groups and legal scholars said the new step. would violate constitutional totally free speech rights and would likely. draw legal challenges. The First Modification protects everyone in the United States,. consisting of foreign people studying at American universities,. said Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First. Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Deporting. non-citizens on the basis of their political speech would be. unconstitutional. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a large Muslim. advocacy group, stated it would think about challenging the order in. court if Trump attempted to implement it. The Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attack on the. Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza resulted in numerous months of. pro-Palestinian demonstrations that roiled U.S. college schools. Civil liberties groups recorded a rise in hate crimes and. occurrences directed at Jews, Muslims, Arabs and other people of. Middle Eastern descent. The order needs firm and department leaders to offer. the White House with recommendations within 60 days on all. criminal and civil authorities that could be used to combat. antisemitism, according to the truth sheet. It requires a stock and analysis of all court. cases involving K-12 schools, colleges and universities and. declared civil liberties infractions connected with pro-Palestinian. school protests, possibly resulting in actions to eliminate alien. students and personnel. Many pro-Palestinian protesters rejected supporting Hamas or. engaging in antisemitic acts, stating they were showing. against Israel's military assault on Gaza, where health. authorities say more than 47,000 individuals have actually been killed. Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American. Institute, a nonpartisan civil liberties group, stated the group was. deeply bothered by the apparent conflation of criticism of. Israel with supposed antisemitism. Berry stated the order would. have a chilling result on totally free speech throughout the U.S.
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Germany's private LNG terminal worries state operator may damage it
Personal German melted gas (LNG) terminal operator Deutsche ReGas states the potentially lower prices used by stateowned Deutsche Energy Terminal to draw in purchasers are a danger to its business. Germany's quest to increase LNG capacity for regasification on its shores has magnified as it looks for to change pipeline gas no longer coming from Russia, its previous main provider. Drifting storage and regasification units (FSRUs) were constructed at various coastal places in record time. But with underground gas caverns well completed Europe, and with LNG terminal overcapacity, it is getting tougher to bring in freights to the new infrastructure. Given that Christmas 2024, we have been facing unequal competitors with DET, ReGas Chief Executive Ingo Wagner stated to press reporters, adding that state rules require that DET needs to not offer slots at costs below costs. ReGas complains that state-subsidised DET can pay for to go listed below the cost that would be thought about the very little level to recover costs. As a private company, ReGas says it can not match the levels. ReGas's Deutsche Ostsee terminal is the only facility in the Baltic Sea and is important for delivering gas to nations such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the future, which are reversing pipeline instructions after Russian products dried up. A pipeline deal between Russia and Ukraine ended on Jan. 1 and U.S. President Donald Trump is targeting Europe to export more LNG. DET will hold short-term auctions for regasification capability at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuettel in the North Sea on Feb. 4, 5 and 6. Its operations were authorized under European Commission state help guidelines last December. Germany hurried through building Wilhelmshaven, Brunsbuettel and Lubmin, near Mukran and its leader, from the winter of 2022 onwards and rented ships as part of its emergency situation actions to the decrease of Russian gas after the war in Ukraine. DET informed Reuters that short-term auctions in December had assisted make sure supply security at all times, amidst soft scheduling interest. We are adhering to the regulative requirements for the marketing of regas capacity for our terminals, a DET. representative said. The auctions are for services around unloading. regasification, send-out and storage.
Underwater sabotage suspected in Baltic Sea
A Finnish court denied a release request of an oil tanker that police suspected of damaging four telecommunications cable and an underwater power line in the Baltic Sea.
This was not the first time that underwater critical infrastructure in Baltic Sea has been damaged in a suspicious manner. NATO and the Baltic Sea nations have stepped up their presence in this area.
A number of police investigations are underway, but no suspects were brought to court.
DEC 2024 - POWER AND INTERNET CABLING
On December 25, four telephone lines and the Estlink 2 underwater power cable, which connects Finland to Estonia, were damaged.
Finland has launched a sabotage probe and on December 26th seized a Russian oil tanker on suspicion that it had caused damage by dragging the anchor.
The Cook Islands Eagle S, registered in Finland, was part of an "shadow fleet" that circumvented sanctions against Russian oil exports. The European Union condemned any deliberate destruction to Europe's infrastructure.
NATO announced on December 27 that it would increase its military presence in the Baltic Sea Region. The Kremlin stated the same day that it was not concerned about the seizure of the ship, and Russia had previously denied any involvement in such an incident.
On December 29, the Finnish police reported that they found tracks in the water where they suspect Eagle S to have damaged the cables.
On December 30, the owner of the Eagle S - Caravella LLC FZ based in the United Arab Emirates - filed a petition with the Helsinki District Court requesting the release of ship. The request was denied on January 3, 2025.
BALTIC TELECOM CABLES AVAILABLE NOV 2024
On November 17 and 18 two undersea fiber-optic communication cables, located at a distance of more than 200 km (over 100 nautical miles), were cut in the Baltic Sea. This raised suspicions about sabotage.
According to Lithuanian Telia Lietuva (part of Swedish Telia Company), a 218-km (135 mile) internet connection between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island went out of service around 0800 GMT on November 17.
Cinia, the Finnish cyber security and telecommunications company controlled by the Finnish government, said that a 1,200-km cable linking Helsinki to Rostock in Germany stopped working at around 0200 GMT November 18, 2018.
Investigators from the countries involved focused on the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 which left the Russian Port of Ust-Luga in Nov. 15. An analysis of MarineTraffic showed that the coordinates of the ship matched the time and location of the breaches.
After a diplomatic standoff lasting a whole month, during which the ship was parked in the Danish shipping lanes, China finally allowed investigators and representatives from Germany as well as Sweden, Finland, and Denmark to board the Yi Peng 3 on December 21.
Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard stated on December 23 that China had refused to heed the Swedish government’s request to have a prosecutor conduct the preliminary inquiry on board.
OCT 2023 - BALTICCONNECTOR PIPE AND FILTERS FOR GAS
The Balticconnector subsea pipeline that links Finland and Estonia beneath the Baltic Sea was cut by the Chinese container ship NewNew Polar Bear, according to Finnish investigators, when it dragged its anchor early in the morning of Oct. 8, 2023.
The Estonian Police suspects that the ship also damaged telecoms cables linking Estonia with Finland and Sweden between Oct. 7 and 8, before striking the gas pipeline while on its way to St Petersburg, Russia.
Estonian authorities claim that China did not fulfill its promise to Finland and Estonia regarding the investigation.
Investigators in Finland and Estonia have been unable determine whether damage was caused by the Hong Kong flagged vessel accidentally or intentionally. They have yet to provide their conclusions.
SEPT 2022 : NORD STREAM BLASTS
On September 26, 2022, Nord Stream 1 & 2 were damaged. They are two pipelines built by Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom across the Baltic Sea to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.
Swedish seismologists recorded several subsea explosions that occurred 17 hours apart off the Danish Island of Bornholm. These blasts ruptured three of the four Nord Stream pipelines and released methane in the atmosphere.
Sweden's investigation found explosive residue on several recovered objects, confirming that it was an intentional act. However, Sweden and Denmark ended their investigations in 2024 without naming any suspects.
No one has accepted responsibility.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has dismissed some Western officials' claims that Moscow blew its own pipelines.
Russia blames the United States of America, Britain, and Ukraine for these explosions that have largely isolated Russian gas from the European Market. These countries denied any involvement.
In August 2024 Germany requested that Poland arrest a Ukrainian diver instructor who was accused of being a member of a team which blew up Nord Stream Pipelines. Poland claimed that the man fled the country before being detained. Reporting by Anne Kauranen, in Helsinki; Nerijus Adomiaitis, in Oslo; Johan Ahlander, in Gothenburg; Stine Jacobsen, in Copenhagen; Andrius Sytas, in Vilnius, and Anna Ringstrom, in Stockholm. Editing by Andrew Cawthorne, and Timothy Heritage.
(source: Reuters)