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Tech News60 People Treated After Delta Flight Dumps Jet Fuel on Los Angeles County
Around 60 people in Los Angeles County were treated by first responders after a jet returning to Los Angeles International Airport dumped its fuel in mid-air, showering at least five elementary schools and a high school shortly before noon, CNN reported on Tuesday. No one at any of the sites required hospitalization, Los Angeles School … Continued
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Tech NewsReport: 51 Members of Congress and Their Spouses Collectively Own Millions in Defense Stocks
51 members of Congress or their spouses own between $2.8 million to $5.3 million worth of stock in the top 30 defense contractors worldwide, Sludge reported on Monday, thus placing them in a position to potentially profit from the U.S. military contracting process or wars waged with the firms’ equipment. According to Sludge, the data … Continued
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Tech NewsBoeing Emails Reveal Employees Talking Shit About The 737 Max Before Deadly Crashes
New emails and direct messages released by Boeing to congressional investigators reveal some shocking messages from Boeing employees about both their own planes and the regulators overseeing the safety on their aircraft. In one of the most startling messages from April of 2017, a Boeing employee wrote, “this airplane is designed by clowns, who in … Continued
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Tech NewsPentagon Believes Iran Shot Down Ukrainian Airlines Flight by Mistake: Multiple Reports
Officials at the Pentagon believe the Ukrainian Airlines Flight that crashed shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, was mistakenly shot down by Iran, according to a new report from Newsweek and follow-up reporting by CBS News and CNN. Newsweek cites three sources: an official from the Pentagon, as well as … Continued
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Tech NewsEverything We Know About the Plane Crash in Iran That Killed 176 People
A Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, Iran, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing all 176 passengers and crew on board. The cause of the crash is not yet known. Bloomberg identified the jet as Ukraine International Flight 752, a 737-800 NG that was heading from Tehran’s Imam … Continued
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Tech NewsBoeing Fires CEO Following 737 MAX Disasters
Boeing has fired its CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, and will replace him with its current chairman, David L. Calhoun. A new press release from the company claims that Muilenburg had resigned, but that same press release also says that it was the board’s decision. In short: Muilenburg got fired. “The Board of Directors decided that … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightBoeing’s Starliner Won’t Meet Up With Space Station After Failure to Reach Proper Orbit
Update 11:15 a.m. ET: NASA and Boeing officials shared more details about the anomaly at a press conference this morning, which opened with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine saying, “This is in fact why we test.” As he and his colleagues explained, it’s still too early to be sure, but the problem appears to be related … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationBoeing Halts 737 MAX Production
Boeing will halt production on its infamous 737 MAX plane nine months after authorities grounded the passenger airliner following crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that took 346 lives. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Monday that the beleaguered aviation company has made the decision to temporarily suspend manufacturing of the aircraft in January. News … Continued
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Tech NewsThe FAA Knew
The Federal Aviation Administration was well aware of the fatal hazards with the Boeing 737 MAX before the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash and allowed the planes to continue carrying passengers, a report shows. As the Wall Street Journal notes, the FAA had estimated that throughout its 30-45 year life cycle, the Boeing 737 MAX … Continued
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Tech NewsTrump Regime Threatens 100 Percent Tariffs on French Goods to Retaliate Against Tax on Big Tech
The Trump regime is threatening to slap tariffs on over $2.4 billion worth of French goods imported into the United States as retaliation for a new digital services tax recently instituted in France. The French tax of 3 percent is applied on the revenues of about 30 Big Tech companies, most of which are based … Continued
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Tech NewsEvacuation Slide Mysteriously Falls Off of a Boeing Plane in Flight and Lands in Family’s Yard
If you’re keeping a running list of all the things that could potentially go wrong with Boeing’s planes, you can add “mysteriously ejects its own emergency inflatable evacuation slide” to the list, as a Milton, Massachusetts, family discovered yesterday afternoon. According to a Delta Airlines spokesperson, the deflated slide came from a flight that was … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightBoeing Reveals Its Proposed Lander for NASA’s 2024 Moon Mission
Boeing has submitted its proposal to NASA for a lunar lander concept that the company claims will return Americans to the Moon in 2024 with the “fewest steps” possible. Under orders from President Trump, NASA is working to deliver American astronauts to the Moon by 2024. Since late September, the space agency has been soliciting … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightBoeing Completes Dramatic Abort Test of Spacecraft That Could Take Astronauts to the ISS
NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program hit a key milestone today following an apparently successful abort test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, in which the module reached 650 miles per hour (1,046 km/h) in just 5 seconds. The pad abort test of an uncrewed CST-100 Starliner happened at 7:15 a.m. MT (9:15 a.m. ET) today from Launch … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightElon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million
Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor with security clearances, and the U.S. government does not like marijuana—and in this instance, it disliked it so much it spent $5 million to … Continued
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Tech NewsAmerican Airlines Says It Expects to Start Flying Troubled Boeing 737 Max Again Next Year
American Airlines said on Wednesday that it expects its fleet of Boeing 737 Max jets to return to passenger service later than expected on Jan. 16, 2020, after the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation sign off on revisions intended to remedy flaws that led to the deaths of 346 people in two crashes. … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationBoeing Engineer Filed Ethics Complaint Over Scrapped 737 Max Safety System: Report
According to an internal complaint submitted by a Boeing engineer after this year’s 737 Max crashes, the company declined to put a proposed safety system in the plane in an effort to keep costs low—a decision that may have contributed to the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that collectively killed 346 people. The New York … Continued
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Tech NewsFAA Orders Inspection of Boeing 737 Next Generation Jets After Discovery of ‘Structural Cracks’
Boeing, already having taken a $4.9 billion after-tax charge this year amid the ongoing fallout from two deadly 737 Max crashes, now has problems with a different line of planes. Per CNN, the Federal Aviation Administration is ordering inspections of 737 Next Generation models (737-600, 737-700, 737-800, and 737-900) after Boeing reported that it had … Continued
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Tech NewsUnited and Southwest Will Allow Passengers to Opt-Out of 737 Max Flights
Even after Boeing’s beleaguered Boeing 737 Max jets return to the skies, some Stephen Brashearwary passengers won’t be expected to board them—at least if they’re flying United Airlines. The policy is not new but reiterated this week by a United Airlines executive during an investor conference. CNN on Wednesday cited Boeing’s chief commercial officer Andrew … Continued
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Tech NewsFAA Reportedly Delegated Oversight of Critical 737 Max Flight System to Boeing
A New York Times investigation into the Boeing 737 Max crisis—involving two crashes that killed a cumulative 346 people and the continued grounding of the entire line from global service—has found troubling signs that the Federal Aviation Administration process to guarantee the planes’ safety was fatally flawed and bent to Boeing pressure when it came … Continued
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Tech NewsSouthwest Airlines Forced to Pull Service From Newark Airport as Boeing 737 Max Remains Grounded
After months of ongoing flight cancellations related to the ongoing grounding of the Boeing 737 Max following two deadly crashes, Southwest Airlines has announced that it is pulling service from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Southwest Airlines CEO Gary C. Kelly announced the move during the company’s second quarter earnings this week, citing … Continued
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