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Photo: Pilatus Pilatus announced “numerous new features” it is adding to all its PC-24 twinjets, starting with the current production run. The updates include cabin amenities, avionics updates, and upgraded systems, including new lithium-ion batteries. All the improvements can be retrofitted to existing PC-24s, said Pilatus. In the cabin, new-design seats will be lighter, more comfortable, and have more intuitive controls for passenger amenities, according to Pilatus. The seats now come with quick-release attach points, making cabin-configuration changes faster and easier. Buyers can also...

Officials to pick up on without a significant amount of time with the patient. there may have been clues, but they may have been hard to notice. >> let me ask you the same question david, in a different way, because when you fly in a plane, which you have you spend hours and hours with someone in a tiny space. you only have each other to talk to. is it possible that someone would have noticed that something was airywryawry with this man? >> well, he clearly loved flying. that's what he did. when you're in the cockpit environment, it's as if everything else goes away. it's really not indicative...

Airline pilots airline flight crew members, don't breach protocol very often. it's a rigorous profession and adherence to those protocols, that's the way we do business. >> anthony if someone in the front of the plane, pilot or copilot has decided to take the plane down there are opportunities. somehow, some way, to do it. it's just the protocols that exist to try to minimize that possibility. but if they're hell-bent on doing this this is going to be very difficult to stop. >> it is going to be difficult to stop. and we are faced with a terrible terrible a terrible security dilemma from this ...