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The March 10 crash

On March 10, the world was hit by the news that a passenger aircraft operated by Africa’s top national carrier had crashed. The reference point for the information was solely the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

It remained the most quoted source for hours before the flier, Ethiopian Airlines, confirmed with further details of the said incident.

The focus of this article is to put as much information as possible on the crash, straddling the before, during and aftermath of what is one of the deadliest incidents Ethiopian has faced in recent years.

You can read about the following areas in our continued coverage below:

Last words of one of the pilots before crash
Anti-stall feature active at time of crash
Boeing sued in Chicago court by Rwandan kids
Boeing unveils software fix 737 MAX planes
Ethiopian refutes news on probe report
Preliminary report expected soon
Ethiopian pledges to continue with Boeing
Indonesia airline cancels Boeing MAX orders
Airline fights NYT, Washington Post misinformation
Black-box analysis in Addis, to involve French, American experts
Ethiopia’s reputation stable, FAA orders audit of 737-Max 8
Ethiopian investigators return from Paris
Ethiopian freezes all Boeing 737Max orders
Boeing confirms updating of design software
Photos: Mass funeral ceremony for accident victims
Ethiopian says victims DNA tests to take months
Trump’s nice words about Ethiopian as he speaks with Abiy
Black box investigations start

“Pitch up, pitch up” last words of worried pilot

Three weeks after the March 10 crash that claimed the lives of all 157 people on board, leaked details have

Article source: https://www.africanews.com/2019/03/29/ethiopian-airlines-crash-all-you-need-to-know/

Indonesian investigators inspect the wreckage of an engine from Lion Air Flight 610 recovered from the sea at the Tanjung Priok port last November in Jakarta. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) Joanna Slater Shibani Mahtani March 30 at 5:00 AM

NOIDA, India — Three months after the Lion Air plane her husband was piloting plunged into the sea, Garima Sethi sat with senior officials at the Indonesian carrier in January and urged them — again — to ground the Boeing 737 Max 8.

It wasn’t the first time Sethi had pleaded with Lion Air and Indonesian authorities to ground the model. The Oct. 29 crash near Jakarta claimed 189 lives and led to global probes into potential problems with an anti-stall system on the popular Boeing plane.

But Sethi said Lion Air officials at the time said they needed more information to take such a step. In addition, the officials told Sethi that Boeing had reassured them that the aircraft was safe.

Now, she believes a second crash of a Boeing Max jet, in Ethiopia this month, could have been prevented if the appeals by the victims’ families were given more weight by Lion Air and others.

“We tried to do our part,

Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/playing-with-lives-widow-of-pilot-on-doomed-lion-air-flight-says-direct-appeals-made-to-ground-boeing-model/2019/03/29/56aa778a-5017-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html

LeRoy LaRue Wallace was born to LeRoy Franklin Wallace and Catherine May Stratton Wallace on December 5, 1936, in the residence behind his father’s radio repair shop on Third Street in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.

LeRoy was a lifelong Tulsa native. After graduation from Webster High School in 1956, he joined the Air Force. In 1958, he entered the Air National Guard serving in Vietnam in the 125th Aeromedical Evacuation Flight. He was instrumental in establishing the Environmental Health Program for the 138th TAC Unit and Chartered the Oklahoma Air National Guard Chief’s Council, which is comprised of all Chief Master Sergeants within the Oklahoma Air National Guard.

He retired from the Oklahoma Air National Guard in May 1991 with 32 years of service. At the time of his retirement, LeRoy was the Command Chief Master Sergeant for the state of Oklahoma. During his years of service, he received many awards including the Oklahoma Meritorious Service Medal.

LeRoy was employed with Oklahoma Natural Gas for 40 years retiring in 1996, as their corporate safety administrator. He served and was recognized as a leader in numerous organizations in the safety profession receiving many awards and honors.

LeRoy was a gentle, loving man with a heart of gold. He had been an avid hunter since the age of 12, enjoyed snow skiing, hiking, fishing, spending time outdoors, including his recent hobby of flying model airplanes with his “best bud and brother”, Randy. God, family and friends were very important to LeRoy. He was a faithful member of

Article source: https://www.tulsaworld.com/obituaries/localobituaries/leroy-l-wallace/article_f371adca-782e-5d79-b16b-93fbbb60d715.html

With new U.S. sanctions now starting to bite, Iran’s airlines are being forced to return to old habits by patching up their aging planes rather than firing up the engines on newer models.

After the signing of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 and the lifting of most international sanctions on the country in January 2016, Iranian airlines jumped at the chance to renew their decrepit fleets. They placed orders for tens of billions of dollars’ worth of new aircraft, with large contracts signed with Boeing, Airbus and ATR.

However, just a handful of the 300 planes that were ordered were delivered before Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. With that, the chances of new deliveries have dwindled, as has the ability to easily buy spare parts.

An Iran Air passenger plane takes off from Mehrabad airport in the Iranian capital Tehran on January 15, 2013. (Photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Instead of taking delivery of modern aircraft, it seems that local airlines are now having to patch up older planes in their fleet. Iranian media reported earlier this month that Iran Air had overhauled one of its Airbus A300 aircraft following the technical failure of one of its engines.

Iran Air has around a dozen A300 aircraft in its fleet, one of which has been converted to a freighter. Overall, the planes have an average age of close to 33 years, according to Airfleets.net. Only 23 other

Article source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/09/07/iran-old-aircraft-flying-sanctions-new-planes/

We’ve reviewed mobile workstations that rival the power of the Lenovo ThinkPad P52 (starts at $1,160.10; $2,897 as tested), but they’ve been 17.3-inch bruisers. This 15.6-inch ThinkPad is a relative heavyweight compared to the Editors’ Choice Dell Precision 5530. Equipped with solid-state and hard drives, plus a touch screen, it’s about six pounds, versus the Dell’s four and a half. But it’s a 3D-rendering beast, ready to rampage through technical-standard applications, including ones for creating virtual reality (VR) worlds. Its maximum memory, 128GB, is quadruple the Precision’s ceiling. As much as we like thin-and-light laptops, the P52’s stellar performance makes us swing back to the traditional 15.6-inch form factor. It’s our new Editors’ Choice in the mobile workstation category.

Serious Designers Only Need Apply

Positioned above the trimmer ThinkPad P52s, the ThinkPad P52 has considerably more muscle: Even the $1,124 base model carries a six-core Intel Core i7-8750H processor, though its other components are more modest (8GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a 1080p display).

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My test unit—model 20M90024US, ringing up at $2,897 at this writing—stepped up to a 2.6GHz (4.3GHz turbo) Core i7-8850H, 16GB of memory, a 512GB Intel NVMe SSD, a secondary-storage 1TB hard drive, and a 4K (3,840-by-2,160-pixel) touch screen. The panel is backed by the Max-Q version of the 6GB Quadro P3200, Nvidia’s third-fastest GPU for

Article source: https://www.pcmag.com/review/366916/lenovo-thinkpad-p52

Russian military officials have arrived in Venezuela to discuss equipment maintenance, training and strategy, officials from both countries have said.

Images released of nearly 100 Russian soldiers arriving in Venezuela have reignited speculation about the level of Moscow’s support for the country’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro.

The explanations by officials for the visit came after a Russian-flagged cargo plane and an airliner were spotted at Maiquetía airport outside Caracas guarded by a contingent of Venezuelan national guardsmen.

A Venezuelan official said the aircraft arrived this weekend as part of ongoing military cooperation between the two allies. An unnamed Russian official told the state news agency RIA Novosti that there was “nothing mysterious” in the visit.

In a phone call with his Russian counterpart, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, called on Russia to “cease its unconstructive behaviour” by supporting Maduro, the state department said on Monday.

The state department spokesman Robert Palladino said Pompeo had spoken to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, about Venezuela. “The secretary told Russian foreign minister Lavrov that the United States and regional countries will not stand idly by as Russia exacerbates tensions in Venezuela,” Palladino said in a statement that also condemned Russian military support for the “illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro”.

Photographs of the planes attracted attention after news reports in January that Russian mercenaries had flown to the country to protect Maduro. Russia’s military has been accused of using its aircraft to provide logistics for

Article source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/25/russian-military-officials-arrive-in-venezuela-to-discuss-training-and-strategy

Ethiopian crash hub: Boeing sued in US by Rwandan kids

The March 10 crash

You can read about the following areas in our continued coverage below:

“Pitch up, pitch up” last words of worried pilot

‘Playing with lives’: Widow of pilot on doomed Lion Air flight says direct appeals made to ground Boeing model

This engineer lived in an RV in Tesla’s parking lot — now he’s on a quest to build electric planes

LeRoy L. Wallace

Iran Battles To Keep Old Aircraft Flying As U.S. Sanctions Block Path To New Planes

Lenovo ThinkPad P52 Review & Rating

Serious Designers Only Need Apply

Russian military arrive in Venezuela to discuss ‘training and strategy’

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