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Promotional avenues of staff restructured Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 22: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) Anshul Garg today enumerated various significant measures for the general welfare of the Shrine Board employees which include enhancement of hardship allowance for 1450 employees posted at Higher Altitudes, promotion of 131 employees of various groups, restructuring of various cadres for latter promotional avenues, one time relaxation in qualification for transition to MR to Term Employee & Term Employee […]

Transporting at higher altitudes. the stinger missiles, the sa-7, sa-9, man portable sa-14, those have a service ceiling of around 10 to 15,000 feet, which isn't halfway to what the altitudes at what the air transit is at. so taking that into consideration, obviously, i think aircraft will avoid flying over syria at the moment for all the news that pervades at the moment and it seems that the airways path is taking it north within the sinai air space up into the mediterranean into cyprus, turkey, and then into st. petersburg. yes, will this raise questions on the, you know, on the levels of se...

Ntsb investigation with a party system, with getting all the people, all the experts from power plants, from everywhere they can, putting them together. that's a great, great thing to happen. i don't know how many people listened to that whole process. but it's wonderful to see. and i was also encouraged by the fact that they're utilizing every aspect of the data making their assumption. lower altitudes, higher altitudes. they're looking at every aspect. and i was very encouraged by it. >> and i'm sure this makes mike happy they talked so much about data and information they're getting because...

Aviation consultant, both experienced captains of boeing 777s. if it was flying faster earlier, explain the significance of that? it means it used more fuel earlier? >> the faster it goes, the more fuel it is going to burn. at higher altitudes, the airplane has less resistance and i capable of going faster with the assumption it was at 35,000 o 35,000 feet on itst contact that we know of. that's where all the calculations began, from the point where we knew the airplane was last. all the wings that wre were talking about. if the airplane had gone down to the 12,000 foot altitude that was discu...