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Jon Ostrower, Editor-in-chief of The Air Current stops by to discuss Boeing MCAS system and how its been found ineffective.

LONDON â€“ 2020. What a year. From what was expected to be an incredible 12 months for the industry turned into a storm that should have been expected.  This pandemic has been significantly strong in nature, enabling at one point a complete global shutdown of flights and operations.  But as 2020 is over, thankfully, the focus on the industry now is to look towards 2021 and the Air Odyssey that could be as we try to move on from this pandemic. United Airlines staff. Photo: UA What is Neede...

But also want to link it to the of. the tiny pieces of plastic are so light that if they leave the water and dry out they can be picked up by air currents and carried high into the atmosphere once theyre like dust or pollen they act as a core for coalescing raindrops or in colder regions ice crystals when they grow heavy enough the rain drops or snowflakes fall back to earth as precipitation taking the microscopic pieces of plastic along for the ride. the polar and marine scientists from the hun...

As well and the air currents are spreading them to some of the most pristine environments on earth millions of tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year and where the sun and the waves eventually break down the waste into microscopic pieces these so-called micro plastics no blanket the marine environment found in sediments floating free in the water and inside practically every organism that lives in the sea no micro plastics have also been found in snow the researchers looked at how it go...

Meters. this is the heart of gliding in germany because of the thermals. the 1st attempts at gliding took place before the 1st world war but the 1st competitions were organized in 1920. s. sailplane is designed to write the air currents without an engine so that it can just glide through space. back when germany was still divided sailplanes from hessen in the west sometimes found themselves gliding towards and even over the border just 15 kilometers from the boss a cookbook. some pilots were eve...

Turn around but didnt declare a catastrophic emeency at that point, perhaps they thought the issue on board was something they could fix, and obviously sadly, that does not appear to be the case. so obviously we are waiting to get more information. it is comin in minute by minute. we have seen some photos as well of family members gathering at the airport in jakarta. obviously, as you can imagine, just a devastating time for them, and im sure theyre just clinging to hope that perhaps somewhere i...

Captain kevin caffery hovers above, trying to get a rescue basket close enough for the man to grasp. >> we made four or five attempts to get him with the rescue basket. we got pretty close to him. the problem is with the treacherous air current, it was almost impossible to control the aircraft. >> at some point he said, im running out of power. were not going to be able to do this. >> another failed attempt. the chopper returns to land so the team can come up with plan "c." and in the water, car...

Captain kevin caffery hovers above, trying to get a rescue basket close enough for the man to grasp. >> we made four or five attempts to get him with the rescue basket. we got pretty close to him. the problem is with the treacherous air current, it was almost impossible to control the aircraft. >> at some point he said, im running out of power. were not going to be able to do this. >> another failed attempt. the chopper returns to land so the team can come up with plan "c." and in the water, car...

The metal fragments found on arlene jensens body and in her apartment were sent to the forensics lab for testing. under a microscope, scientists could see that the fragments were different shapes and sizes. the surfaces were corrugated and the composition of the metal varied from piece to piece. >> they were made of various types of steel, various grades of steel, various grades of brass. >> the unique shapes and the fact some were hollow were a clear indication of their origin. >> what that mea...

The metal fragments found on arlene jensens body and in her apartment were sent to the forensics lab for testing. under a microscope, scientists could see that the fragments were different shapes and sizes. the surfaces were corrugated and the composition of the metal varied from piece to piece. >> they were made of various types of steel, various grades of steel, various grades of brass. >> the unique shapes and the fact some were hollow were a clear indication of their origin. >> what that mea...