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Malawi and the United Nations children’s agency are experimenting with drones to speed up HIV testing for infants.

Mahimbo Mdoe, a Unicef representative in Malawi, said drones will solve the challenges that health workers face in reaching remote parts of the southern African nation.

Mr Mdoe added that 10,000 children in Malawi die every year of illnesses related to HIV, which causes Aids, and that nearly 40,000 children were born to HIV-positive mothers in 2014.

The Unicef spokeswoman in Malawi, Angela Travis, said initial testing has been completed.

Ms Travis said that the drones travelled five to 10 kilometres (three to six miles) with a simulated blood sample.

The children’s agency said blood samples are currently transported by motorbike or ambulances. High fuel costs and bad roads have contributed to transport delays.

Article source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/malawi-and-unicef-trial-drones-to-transport-babies-hiv-tests-34567016.html

Australia said on Thursday that the plane debris almost certainly belonged to MH370, which vanished without a trace two years ago along with its 239 passengers.

The first fragment was found
earlier this month by an American explorer in Mozambique. After Seattle lawyer Blaine Gibson’s discovery was publicized, a South African teenager who had also found a piece of the plane went public as well.

“The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,” said Darren Chester, Australia’s minister for infrastructure and transport.

Confirmation of theory

Chester said the discoveries
confirmed earlier theories that parts of the plane likely drifted toward Africa after supposedly crashing in the Indian Ocean.

The first major breakthrough in the investigation came when a wing from a Boeing 777 – the model of the MH370 plane – washed ashore on an island in the Indian Ocean.

Investigators are still hoping to locate the plane’s black boxes, or flight recorders, which are likely somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.

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Article source: http://www.dw.com/en/plane-parts-almost-certainly-from-missing-mh370/a-19137556

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March 19–MOBILE, Ala. — Airbus once hoped it would assemble a refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force in this Gulf Coast city. Even when it lost that job in a bare-knuckled political fight with its American rival Boeing, Airbus kept its strategic ambition to expand into the U.S. and build airplanes here.

Now its time has finally arrived. Less than four years after Airbus announced it would assemble commercial airplanes here, its first American-built jet — a JetBlue A321 — is expected to take off this coming week on its maiden flight.

At the end of a long, freshly paved road running through acres of future growing room, Airbus’ new final-assembly plant in Mobile gives the European jet maker its long-sought beachhead in the United States.

To emphasize that the planes rolling out are American-made, Airbus marketers like to stick a couple of extra initials on the model designation, making it USA321.

Inside the final-assembly building during a recent visit, the walls were festooned with red, white and blue banners, like a U.S. presidential campaign rally.

A more significant use of American symbols: Five other A321s are under assembly, their vertical tails painted with a stylized U.S. flag that signals they’ll be flying for American Airlines.

The scale of Airbus’ operation here is well short of Boeing’s Renton plant, which currently churns out 42 single-aisle jets per month. Airbus plans to ramp up to building four narrowbody airplanes per month by the end of next year and has the capacity to double that rate.

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Article source: http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12184272/in-alabama-airbus-plants-seeds-of-a-new-aerospace-cluster

It was when I first noticed the fire-dancers and women writhing in transparent spheres on the water that I fully realized the degree to which Chrysler was Not Screwing Around when it came to the launch of their new minivan, the 2017 Pacifica. This vehicle is very important to Chrysler, and that’s why I had to bring my wife and kid along to see how good it was.

(Full Disclosure: In addition to the fire-dancers and women in bubbles, Chrysler flew not just me, but my wife and little boy out to SoCal for the launch of their new minivan, and showed us a good time while we were there. They can’t buy my opinion, of course, but it’s possible you might get a bribed positive review from my 5-year-old.)

Yes, Chrysler invited journalists and their families to this launch, which was a great idea, since just plopping two doughy, shrimp-addled writers into a minivan isn’t going to tell you a damn thing about how a Pacifica is going to be used in the real world.

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You’d end up with a bunch of articles carefully evaluating the feedback through the steering wheel and how the weight transfers in corners, metrics at the top of the list of things minivan buyers do not give a shit about.

An airliner carrying 61 people from Dubai crashed early Saturday while landing in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in strong winds, killing all aboard, Russian officials said.

All 55 passengers and six crew members had died, Igor Oder, head of the Emergencies Ministry’s southern regional operations, said in a televised briefing.

The Boeing 737-800 belonged to the budget carrier FlyDubai.

In a statement, the budget carrier confirmed that flight FZ981 crashed on landing and said that there are fatalities.

“We are doing all we can to gather information as quickly as possible. At this moment our thoughts and prayers are with our passengers and our crew who were on board the aircraft,” the airline said.

Vasily Golubev, the governor of the Rostov region some 950 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, was quoted by Russian news agencies as telling local journalists that the plane crashed about 250 meters (800 feet) short of the runway. News reports said the plane caught fire after the crash.

Video posted to YouTube by Roman Uriev purportedly showed the plane crashing.

The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, but Golubev said: “By all appearances, the cause of the air crash was the strongly gusting wind, approaching a hurricane level.”

State news agency Tass said weather data from the area indicated that winds were anywhere from 14 to 22 meters per second (30-50 miles per hour) at the time of the crash and that there was light rain.

Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, told The Associated Press that

Article source: http://abc7.com/news/video-purportedly-shows-passenger-airliner-crashing-in-russia/1253007/