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The Philippines and Australia on Monday kicked off their first bilateral amphibious exercise dubbed 'Alon' (Waves) as tensions grow in the South China Sea over China's continued posturing in disputed waters.
"jumbo boeing 747." what do you see as the most important similarities? ? >> the first thing is how quickly these things can happen. we must be very careful not to make too much of the fragmented information we have at the moment. there are certain similarities. this thing happened very quickly. we know because of the gap, short gap between when crew asked for permission to climb and when the controllers got back to them. some two minutes or so. by that time the crew was unable to communicate. in the case of flight 447, it was a larger aircraft and it was 4 1/2 minutes when they had that first...