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...really, experts say. "There's nothing unusual about Yemenia or any other airline adapting aircraft to both passenger loads and routes being flown," says Paul Hayes, director of the London-based Ascend airline consultancy, adding that swapping planes is a common way for airlines to maximize fuel and cost efficiency. "And while much has been made about the crashed A310 having been banned in France since 2007, you hear no one pointing out that the same A310 has since then been regularly flown between Sanaa and London, where it has passed safety inspections by the British Civil Aviation Association." (Read...
...Ascend's Hayes also points out that external factors may have played into the A310's crash - including a night landing on a poorly-lit strip, and high winds that reportedly caused an aborted landing prior to the accident. Despite that, Bussereau again warned on Friday that "Yemenia has to make big efforts" on safety if it wants to avoid being placed on the E.U.'s blacklist this month. (See pictures of the miracle on the Hudson...
...those kind of altitudes, the gap between excess speed and stalling narrows, especially when you factor in complications like turbulence," says Paul Hayes, director of the London-based Ascend Worldwide fleet consultancy, which advises global airlines and air-transport companies. Without the black box, Hayes adds, the alerts could provide some answers, but not all of them. "Correctly sequencing the cascade of technical reports the plane sent should give investigators clues into what was going wrong as it flew into difficult weather," he says. "At this point, the limited remains of the plane and its passengers recovered will probably...
...goal of your elite education has not been, as Plato famously conceived it, to ascend above the unilluminated ignorance of the cave. Instead, afraid to cause offense by privileging one view over others, Harvard has aspired simply to make us feel more comfortable in our darkness...
...Afternoon is the best time to take in the views from the Cerro de Monserrate, www.cerromonserrate.com, the church and monastery perched above Bogotá at 10,200 ft. (3,100 m) and surrounded by fragrant eucalyptus. Ascend the forested hills via cable car or join the throngs of pilgrims who brave the hike by foot every Sunday morning...