tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera July 3, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm +03
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do you mind fishing called me say hey did you hear what happened. and. the rest is history. the n.t.s.b. began the task of interpret ing the data from the kinds recorder and write outranks of its flight path to known wanted made it so suddenly dive into the ocean. but meanwhile the egyptian public was seized by speculation that the plane had been hit by a missile in order to assassinate 33 returning egyptian army officers who had been training in the us. earlier that night. i had noticed because it was so clear i had noticed air national guard jets running maneuvers and i thought it odd and yet i i had seen that before but i could see them firing their flares and their chief and running circles way high up
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in the sky and when that impact rumbled across the sea. i had a clear. sense line of sight above the haze bang into a beautifully clear with sky there was no. explosion in the sky there was no rocket streaking there was no plane coming down in flames and if there had been i would have seen it. because i was looking right out i mean. a student aware of my surroundings when i'm at sea. it didn't happen. until rebel is a pilot with more than 52 years experience and then a rose by sea engineer we asked him where the flight 990 might have been hit by an aside. i believe he lets the missile did not hit the sack rofft if we look at all
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the elements of the evidence that we received. evidence from witnesses did not see any missiles in the air that night which was a very clear night before raid all stations but had the aircraft on their screen saw no missiles being fired at that aircraft as we discussed earlier the debris field was fairly isolated and only found $400.00 metres apart which would not have been the case of course if i'm a solid hit the aircraft at 33000 feet. because of the 10 hour flight time 2 crews were required. co-pilot jamail alba treaty was one of the members of the relief crew he would feature heavily in the n.t.s.b. investigation 20 minutes after takeoff took over from audio on one copilot
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of the active crew. only 2 days after finding the cockpit voice recorder leaks from the n.t.s.b. they'd made out leads to accuse a sham a loud patootie of crashing the plane. i deeply regret that some advantage benefit sources have led some in the news media to speculate on undocumented information protect way from one of the most sensitive investigative tools at our disposal oh my goodness. there were leaks on every investigation i had any responsibility for over say tina usa or for 27 others i had people sign confidentiality agreements and if there was an only. then the media would take someone's
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information and make it appear there was a lick this is a. back a pilot egyptian commits suicide and mass murder and end of discussion just open and shut case and that troubled me had to make a whole lot of sense so as far as we could tell comes a very well established to have me back in egypt had military officer an unblemished record one of her senior pilots about ready to retire all sorts of reasons to stay alive why would he commit suicide and kill over 200 people on april 19th 2118 months after the crash the n.t.s.b. issued its draft report finding that the probable cause of the accident was a result of the relief 1st offices flight control inputs i thought the n.t.s.b. report was flawed in
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a number of areas. they kind of jumps on the conclusion that the handling pilot was mishandling the aircraft. with the finger pointed at suicide however i think they neglected to look at the other relevant evidence that was found not only from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder but also. parts of the elevator control system. there in sausalito nori was one of 2 translators hired by the n.t.s.b. to translate the cockpit voice recordings. in a photo of the you. can't show a sheet that. i'm smiling. when i did. so back to the atlanta hog in motion that they are going to have had enough that i think you have to be fucking. achievement
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a cockpit voice recorder that with those units ritchie is out of the out that i'm a open you're going back to get them fight that i had forgotten. above all else really seems to have condemned the 1st officer was his use of a common arabic phrase to which the n.t. is to be translated as i rely on god more properly it is i put my trust in god this phrase was interpreted as the final prayer of a man intent on suicide and mass murder his motivation. at 149361 the night of the crash the flight data recorder shows a rapid movement of the right elevator the autopilot disengaged is followed by the copilot 2nd use of the i rely on god fries the throttle lever is
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a move from the cruise power settings to the elevators move between 3 and 4 degrees nose down the plane begins to die in 12 seconds alva truth he repeats the same phrase 9 times the captain returning from the toilet what's happening. alba to be repeats the i rely on god fries and a mosque a corner or should sound. the occult a look at their limited elf what. a list of what he needs so tell us the name of the mission of couldn't talk a little while and get them then if a little sob like him could see the lives of some of you know and others it is a little bit harder that he picked us as a kid than eileen went out of course. but jim whole remembers the initial response by egyptian personnel was somewhat different it was a general from egypt that came in the 1st general to take over and was the investigative team and this was the last time i was to see him. reported to me that
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it appeared that there was a problem with their policy that had caused the invest problem the accident. that person was the vice marshal mom do as he has not spoken publicly on this issue since the crash. we were eventually able to contact him on a very bad phone line from egypt. for free or march well while i was told by jim the whole he said that when you listen to the cockpit voice recorder you had to look like we've got a problem with that. is that correct. you don't remember her work or however. or your girl once she reported back to cairo which he said he had. and. his
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that individual and the team. the majority of them returned to cairo and were replaced by another investigative team. that. and at that point in time. we had the official line from egypt that it had to be the problem with the aircraft were you recalled because of those comments. or a photograph of the art you have are. very high. very very here very hard work well for your you get a right you were in the line of your military both. here very. careful in your minded do you think but to be deliberately crashed the plane. through of course no. let me put another scenario to you or got a very busy n.t.s.b.
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you know t.w.i. 800 lots of other investigations it kind of feels like they heard this phrase and they thought all that's easy pilot suicide let's totally wrong. and insult to bind us together as. we choose to wait we were asked to take this investigation to begin with we did it. and a good job was done by the investigators the n.t.s.b. has a worldwide reputation. for factual investigations and where we have problems with staff in terms of workload we just extend the time for the investigation. we tried to tying the cup but voice recordings from the n.t.s.b. but they are legally able to release to the f.b.i.
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also refused to release the recordings referring us back to the n.t.s.b. but finally after 3 years of searching and long after all interviews for this film were completed we have time to copy of the cockpit voice recorders. flight $990.00 took off from j.f.k. at $121.00 and climb to normal. operation where you start on the flight a bit through 3 you know. about 20 minutes after takeoff the relief the 1st officer . comes forward and says he doesn't want to slate and suggest that he relieves the active 1st officer i doubt. he will but i doubt you. and i know. that any. event there oh yeah. let's.
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go with this 1. 27 minutes after takeoff the captain goes to the toilet 12 seconds later we hear an unintelligible frights followed by what was translated as i rely on god oh. oh. pat duggins is an aviation safety expert with 42 years experience he teaches a crash investigation. we also asked him to look at the n.t.s.b. report what about the use of that oft repeated frights. yeah it's important is it very important not really i mean if your in danger your life's in danger and you're threatened you're going to say whatever you want to say and you're going to say
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rapidly in this case she rapidly less than a 2nd between each one of them statements are making that statement i mean this guy's scared or something going on that he doesn't know he doesn't understand he's not trained you're not capable of handling this guy i'm scared i mean i'd be saying something to. none of the egyptians involved in the 90 investigation would agree to be interviewed without the permission of the government this wasn't given. at the time however the egyptian civil aviation authority or e.c. i who by now were doing their own investigation issued a furious for a bottle of the n.t.s.b. report. the n.t.s.b. you selected facts and speculative conclusions to support a pre-determined theory and particularly the n.t.s.b. has conclusion that the proper book codes of the accident is that deliberate action
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of the 1st officer is not supported by any evidence of intent or motive it is inconceivable that the n.t.s.b. can credibly proffer a probable cause was based on pilot action when it admits the existence of unexplained damage to the critical of the theater component offered to president mubarak through ambassador to the ambassador here. listen to the cockpit voice recorder yourself. as an aviator so you can sit and listen to it in your own environment. and so. you know we want i wanted. to in edge every investigation. to be sure that we were doing the very best job we could. to cut but voice recording not for
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a total of 31 minutes 45 seconds. per head of whatever mio but now i'm having 11. and 11 what the if you have a surprise a man wants to crash a plane so every was trying to clear the cockpit he was pretty lucky that the captain wanted to go to the toilet in exactly the right time if he wanted to play the cup why didn't they lock the door why didn't he push the elevators all the why ford why did he retired the for offals when you would push the thought it was all the way forward ignoring pickles and none of that makes common sense you know again the report speaks for itself and i'm glad to participate in the interview. because i have great respect for al-jazeera and your viewing audience. in regard to the report. it is there and available.
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here. i. am for you. i'm how i had seen in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera france has condemned the airstrike on a detention center in libya's capital tripoli at least 44 people were killed 130 others injured the u.n. recognized governments has blamed the strike on forces loyal to the warlord calif i have to the african union has called for an independent investigation and an
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immediate cease fire while gandhi has resigned as the leader of india's main opposition party the indian national congress and he said on twitter that he accepted responsibility for his party's major defeats in the big j.p. in this year's general election the 49 year old said it is now for others to nominate the next president of india's oldest political party iran's president says if its partners in the 2050 nuclear deal do not fulfill their promises its nuclear reactor will return to previous activities hasan rouhani says after july the 7th it will go to whatever level is needed. moeller sat here and he saw. from july 7 the level of uranium enrichment won't be 3.67 any more we will codify this commitment involving rich as much as we want and as much as we need. the united nations special investigator examining the murder of journalist jamal
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khashoggi was told paris to reconsider holding the next g 20 in saudi arabia i guess kalam our 9th surf and in its last month telling al-jazeera she wants the un to investigate further she wasn't able to determine who authorized the killing but did find credible evidence pointing to crown prince mohammed bin solomons involvements and germany's defense minister on the lane has become the 1st woman to be nominated to lead the body that oversees the affairs of the european union is a session comes after days of langley probe aging politicians in hong kong say it could cost around $1300000.00 to repair the legislature building which was ransacked by protesters police up declared it a crime scene as the cleanup continues a special task force has been set up to look into the mass protests most of which were peaceful they were triggered by a controversial bill which would allow extradition to mainland china well those are
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the headlines it's back to al-jazeera world. on the 31st of up tight about 9099 egypt air flight 990 disappeared from ride and crashed into the atlantic about 111 kilometers of the east coast of the u.s. with over 200 casualties. the investigation into the crash was conducted by the national transportation safety board or n.t.s.b. in washington d.c. but we will consent that it hadn't and haven't the true cause of the accident when the federal aviation administration required a change in the design of boeing's him 67 in 2014 we decided to revisit the case. because american citizens died in the crash and there
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was the possibility of a criminal act if beyond stopped were among the fairest on the same in fact once the n.t.s.b. had heard the cockpit voice recordings it wanted the f.b.i. to take over the investigation the f.b.i. refused i repeated the request for an interview referring us to their website and the history of the boston office it can be found a very brief mention of the f.b.i. 990 investigation. the f.b.i. concluded that the tragedy was neither a criminal know what terrorist incident. this funding was not published until 2010 about 10 years after the crash yet the n.t.s.b. did not attract its report or reconsider its conclusions. it was clear. in whatever language there was a struggle going on in the cockpit of the 767 but how was there
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a struggle what all we had was a cat come back inside. what's happening what's happening and if you read the. rest of this struck script that has been the text recording. it well you'll see it. in flight 990 s last moments the captain returned to the flight deck and gave frantic instructions to his car. that night. that. he did. there's no evidence according to the that the the data that was issued by the n.t.s.b. to indicate that it was a struggle in the cockpit so if i'm going to if i'm going to kill everybody and
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myself included i would have locked the cockpit kept anybody from forcibly prevent me from doing what i want to do but he's not something's going on that scared this guy and in the end he's still he's got to go react and he freezes he doesn't know what to do and then the captain comes back and try to help him and you see him function as a team to try to recover the fly the airplane. disconnecting the old i pod was another reason that suspicion kind tourist unjam out but today. a year after the crash the egyptian government asked the n.t.s.b. to interview captain jamal out and he had flown on the same bearing 767 from newark airport to los angeles the day before the crash. captain aaron told investigators that the autopilot it was hunting for the glide slide during the approach to ally x. and that because he was uncomfortable with the autopilots performance he had
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disconnected it and landed the plane and. i think happened what my team thought happened and what we put forth. is that albert to me. who is monitoring this on autopilot felt something or heard something that wasn't quite right. it powered many many hours experience he's trained and the 1st thing you do and suddenly you're going on you're not quite sure what it is you're the shutters up if you disconnect at all you want to you know you want to get a feel what's going on what's what's probably here and we think the n.c. just you know that out of the leverage on the back was more than he hold down straight up now we also know that this same problem has occurred on a number of other operators of that same type american airlines entered into a charles de gaulle they had a similar problem with pitching of the and stabilizer problems and elevator problems. and 2 or twice with their own mexico in the same airplane.
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one of the main concerns the egyptians had with the n.t.s.b. investigation was with what became known as the m then tell it to bill fries. 27 minutes after takeoff the captain says he's going to the toilet there's a conversation between him and al but before the flight door closes. 12 seconds later another voice is heard saying words which the investigation describes as and unintelligible fries remark in that amount of hammock and subject to family and yell for the emotional family not the sweet ness america hydraulic one s m at the quarterly welcome back to me that the malignants outfit the sweet means the moulmein midsomer are all the new hey a new home a needle belittle and scrape one happy and some at the hydraulic will ask us to
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some. have that consultant be shock and a new back to the matter and had it is a consult the captain will say or go oh i shot a statement but in a quote had shot in motion. the n.t.s.b. report says the 5 arabic speaking members of the analysis group concur that they do not recognize this as an arabic word words or phrase the entire group agrees that 3 syllables are heard and the accent is on the 2nd syllable for arabic speaking group members believe that they heard word similar to control that one english speaking member believes that he heard a word similar to hydraulic before other members believe that the words were an intelligible. like being t s b we also found the so-called unintelligible fries difficult because a lot of quality of the chord. we went to sounded you need to use techniques to
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clean the sound on that copy that may not have been a viable during the original investigation. that would be indicating something is happening with the aircraft was on it expected and he's trying to assist the copilot in. noticing what was happening at the time. that would be dynamite i think from my point you know i mean extraordinary important piece it's why wouldn't why would anybody say either control or hydraulic if there wasn't something wrong with the system they realize now they're going to big problem. but they never of the never been in town. the plains pet show up and down movement is controlled by its elevators in a 767 the elevators are operated by a system which terminates in a hydraulic jack now and is a pallet control act all p.c. at. each elevator has 3 p.c.'s side out of one of them james the elevator can still
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be controlled by the other to an important part of the mechanical linkage that transmits the pilot's control signals to the p.c.i. is known as the bellcrank assembly at the time of the crash these were constructed with rivets that were designed to bright boy shia in the event of a p.c.i. jam this would disconnect the control inputs from the jammed p.c.i. and allow the other 2 p.c.'s to continue working on the 6 bellcrank assemblies 5 were recovered from the wreckage of 90 the rivets on no 5 was shown the n.t.s.b. noted that this might have been caused by the impact of egypt the a 990 with the c . i'm not going to attempt to. get into detail engineering discussions with you. because number one i don't have the time
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nor do i have the professional experience to get into those discussions. at 150 i am the captain returns and asks what is happening. the elevators begin moving slowly downwards away from their original positions pushing the plane down. engine start late as i move from engine running to cut off the speed break is deployed the captain says pull pull with me pull with me. not at the aisle. and suddenly the recording ends. like a good point. i mean where we got everything. we know from right after its initial dive the pine actually climbed again reaching at least 24000 feet before it finally dived into the sea at some point the plane will start back up we know this because the wreckage was found in 2 distinct debris
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fields 366 meters a path was that something else broke they they were over they couldn't keep that leverage to keep thing going they couldn't level it off some writer play in the back they time and they never got there and if you never got there the aircraft descended and accelerated to a speed just below the speed of sound which was way beyond the design limits of the aircraft. and some point of that descent both pilots managed to recover the aircraft into a climb but both engines have indicated indicated by the flight data recorder to be shut down. the speed alone would have caused aerodynamic forces on the aircraft the way about the design limits of the aircraft and resulting in. it's being detached from the.
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7 months into the investigation the if i received a detailed safety recommendation from the egyptian civil aviation authority urging an examination of the procedure for checking elevate a bell cranks and they were the newest directive was issued by the f.a.a. to check the shared rivets or possibility of shared rivets in the bellcrank system in the elevator control system of the back of the airplane. so a directive was put out to look at the operators around the world and out of $152.00 that were found defective $52.00 of those were replaced and consequently boeing actually bought out a completely new system to replace the the bellcrank system at that time. these airworthiness directives were released in november 2000 and ordered that all 767 operators to perform a one time functional check of one shear rivet in all 6 elevator pca bellcrank
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assemblies within 30 days reworking or replacing the bellcrank assembly if needed. failure of 2 of the 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can result in that single elevator surface but not both surfaces moving to a hard over position independent of the pilot command resulting in a significant pitch upset recoverable by the crew. failure of all 3 bellcrank assemblies on one side can cause an elevator hard over that may result in loss of control ability of the airplane most people remember this case now to see what had happened since we agree with us there was a book. the n.t.s.b. report shows that it relied heavily on dot who supplied by boeing well if you know you're going to look to the manufacturer who knows more about the vehicle. than the
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manufacturer of the vehicle and. so we have in whether it's airbus whether it's embryo or whether it's a russian not a faction aircraft. you know we under the party process include the individuals that have information that factual information that would help the investigators in terms of putting together the facts. it's worth noting that the n.t.s.b. had previously stating that boeing had withheld an important report that could have explained the cause of the crash of t.w.a. flight 800 in 9096 that statement was issued just 2 days before the crash should be debated now and. that is the case then i've seen
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situations where manufacturers for their own economic interests are not forthcoming with the factual information when that happens it's extremely disappointing but it does happen and it is happened. on numerous occasions but good investigative work usually if there is a situation will will determine. where someone is acting out of their self interest rather than trying to act out of the incentives interest of worldwide aviation safety. we asked buying twice to participate in this documentary they refused saying their comments are included in the final accident report they said none of the mechanical failure modes examined during the investigation were consistent with the f.d.r. data because the f.d.r.
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elevated positions did not displace to the positions predicted by the failure mode and effects analysis during the initial pitch over and the elevator motions after the initial pitch over indicate that both surfaces were functioning normally. a memo issued in december 2000 by the chairman of egypt air mohamed fire mariah on explains how egypt air managed to reduce insurance premiums on the slate because of evidence absolving the company of responsibility for the accident it effectively how bowing responsible although the government to egypt there arrived at this conclusion it did not lodge in lawsuit against boeing. instead the egyptian government lodged a case in the name of the agent insurance company accusing boeing of being responsible for the crash because of a malfunction in the tail elevator assembly however the case was lost because the
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original contract for the purchase of the plane registered as soup gap stated that boeing could not be held responsible for any injury or death of any person or loss or damage to any property including the aircraft is that the miss. and that if. i began to be meek. meek it's an empty net and it immediately get that mean. or should it get added it didn't mean. and now i have to look at it and now i'm a school that we repaired with thought oh. and set up in hates following the boy and kind of pioneered this on these complex cases where you've got a product issue or you've got a aviation issue. and boy i really would take the lead they would go reach out to
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the other syndicates or defend terror they might be in say here let's make a deal. right now before we get started on this. we have some exposure you have some exposure we don't know how's are going to play out but we do know that it's in our common interest to you these cases resolved sooner not later and with less money and they put together a working package in agreement with arbitrary percentages to be adjusted later by arbitration out of the light of day and someone has picked a stalking horse that's jeremy the airline is in a direct relationship with the families and they're given a bag of money as already have enough of these various participants very secret so you're saying that even though it looks like boeing never applied the would have been a contribution from boeing i would say that there was contact we know there was reason how much. this contention seems to be supported by the records of
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a case heard by a new york court on the 18th of october 2001. the records show that at the hearing egypt is lawyer conceded the airlines right to sue bowing he told the judge that egypt it would pay full compensation and that boeing should not be asked for any financial commitments in the aftermath of that settlement even of power and well like a proven to have been responsible for the accident. well i'm. the best me i know i can then but then as. often as it is to me if you are game and serious he has. lost mubarak unless he began again and maybe i said i don't want to invest.
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in january 24th team more than 14 years after the crash the federal aviation administration issued a. you airworthiness directive that shows that the problem did exist with 767 elevators. all of the replacement of old bell cranks that still had share rivets with newly designed belt cranks that did not. the if i only said we are showing this 80 to prevent continued operation with the yielded or failed shear rivets in the elevator p.c.l. cranks assemblies and to prevent certain failure or jams in the elevator system from causing a hard over of the elevator surface resulting in a significant pitch upset and possible loss of control of the airplane. that's after the fact fix and you're going to you're going to discourage people from from correcting mistakes if you hit them with that or the fact you had to prove what was wrong and. as we were finishing this film there were 2 crashes involving boeing 737
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max aircraft the 1st was on the 29th of october 20 i tamed 12 minutes after takeoff from jakarta indonesia the 2nd was an ethiopian airlines flight which came down on the 10th of march 2019 killing or $157.00 passengers on board the similarities between the 2 crashes caused several countries to ground or ban them excite aircraft from their yes buys. boeing is an incredible company and they are. working very very hard right down. and totally though very quickly come up with the answer but until they do the planes are grounded. these incidents prompted the u.s. department of justice to investigate the licensing and marketing certification of buying 737 max aircraft issued by the federal aviation administration meanwhile
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boeing has said it does not respond to a comment on questions concerning legal matters with internal litigation or governmental inquiries visit right to say that i didn't see like the federal aviation administration and the n.t.s.b. are frightened of companies like boeing. most definitely they have to be the. the manufacturer or the larger it is the larger the arms and the reaches are to it i mean he just if you look at boy look at how far reaching their capabilities are to they have more government. solicitors in washington d.c. that's what get their products approved they're a jordi of their company's goals to the united states government. the inquiries into the 273 max i crashes will no doubt continue for months even years
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to come borrowing has already conceded that it might some mistakes with releasing this new model airplane but there have been no concessions from anyone involved in the investigation of flight 90. 8 it's a very sad situation in that the or far it is have pointed the finger at a man who is trying to save himself and consequently all the passengers behind him . after almost 20 years this might come as cold comfort for the families that lost loved ones in the crash of egypt and $990.00 especially for the family of the 1st officer jama out but to.
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the west spawn says by the time. it's fun to drive now for much of the thicket cloud is a little further north into the southeast of brazil as it has been over the last couple of days just pushing up across part of why i want to say it was on the cool side temperatures struggling to get into double figures with that wind coming in from a southerly direction a 13 celsius there for santiago further north where we do have that right ascension gets up to around 18 degrees rio $32.00 cells just north of that lots of dry weather lots of sunshine a few showers up towards the fall north of south america meanwhile into the camera
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bay a few showers around here as well around the great around 10 days particularly into cuba for much of the region this a good deal of sunshine the lesser antilles not looking too bad little bit a fair weather cloud just drifting in only weakly ways from the atlantic there rolling across the caribbean towards western parts of the region chance of want to see showers into panama maybe into nicaragua and costa rica house with the central america dry there we go with those showers there into cuba further north into the u.s. because some showers rolling in here as well but i big we got some lie down poles building across the great plains and nudging their way further east was some of the showers will be thundery possibly with some large hail and it stays very hot. weather sponsored by the time and ways.
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envoy calls it a war crime and. most of the victims of that airstrike were from african countries and very urgent in the international community to step in. iran's president says time is running out it's for to hans partners to hold up their end of the 2015 nuclear deal. with sports as the united states beat england to reach the farmall of the women's world cup playoffs but the cup america brazil will guard for a 10th part will be rattled argentina in the surveys. where we begin this new star in libya where at least 44 people have been killed in an air strike on a migrant attention center. the attack took place in a suburb of the libyan capital tripoli lates own choosing nights and is raising
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multiple questions it's been condemned by the african union and the u.n. mission in libya it's envoy calling the strike a karalee act and a war crime when more than 40000 refugees and asylum seekers are registered with the u.n. in libya they say the lives of more than 3000 people held in these centers are in danger the u.n. recognize governments is blaming the forces of warlords highly for her sister but exactly who carried out the attack and why it's attention center was hits remains unclear we'll bring you extensive coverage of the incidents beginning with mahmoud abbas one head who was at the scene in tripoli soon after this is the detention center in the neighborhood in the eastern suburb of the libyan capital tripoli it has just been hit by an airstrike launched by a fighter jet loyal to the world khalifa haftar it's very tragic here dead bodies
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are still under the law but i can see dead batteries over there and here the medical workers are just picking up one dead body over there. this this detention center according to the supervisor here there were about 150 migrants here in this detention center from different nationalities including african nationalities and it's clear that the airstrike was very precise that it hit the center. the center of the detention center this is the creator of the airstrike it's very precise but here the. source is with the government of the u.n. back the government of national called accuse has to play for the jets of targeting this detention center here supervisors here say that they have managed to transfer
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those who made it the other migrants who are still alive to other areas but there is yet there is still a state of panic among the other migrants and also among civilians who live in the nearby they say that the explosion was huge we can see embassies just rushing here to. pick up the dead bodies and transferred the casualties to medical centers. well let's get more on the air from alexia o'brien. traumatized and scared they wait outside the migrant camp that was their temporary home and they're among the hundreds of thousands who've come to libya in search of a better life across the sea in europe. for some here that dream is now all the victims of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. this is the same to just
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a few months ago fullest people have spent days a week straddling through the days it often and brutally hot temperatures and at the hands of smugglers it's those about 600 people living here the part that was hit in an airstrike late on tuesday night about 150 main refugees and migrants many from west africa. we. want you. to. know what we don't know. like. what. will the u.n. recognize government in tripoli is blaming rival forces for the attack saying it was deliberate. the situation in libya has become increasingly volatile since april when forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar launched an
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offensive to control the capital hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the fighting. forces most of whom are part of the self declared libyan national army have carried out several air raids on tripoli in recent days after losing the town of nearby ellen a head the area before the area has. probably some targets that are of interest. but this is a very. then there's the populated area. the violence has worsened the suffering in migrant attention centers some close to the front lines which housed those pushed back by the european funded libyan coast guard the un's described the conditions in the centers as appalling with little food and water repeatedly calling for them to be closed it's condemned to tuesday's attack saying civilians
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should never be targeted o'brian al-jazeera. well libya is a main transit point for refugees and migrants from africa and the middle east all trying to reach europe there are an estimated 670000 of them in libya and more than 5 thousands are kept in some 60 government to tension centers across the country many of them hail from countries such as the share chad mali nigeria sudan somalia urns eritrea they're mostly trying to reach italy by crossing the mediterranean but sizes have been picked up by the libyan coast guard which is being supported by the european union to try and stop them reaching europe where many of the migrants killed in the choose the strike killed from nigeria achmet it is joins me now from the capital of bridger we have heard from the african union
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condemning the attack at what reaction has there been from the nigerian government's. well officials here angry about what happened former statement is expected from the office of the president any minute now but the situation for families of migrants who they are yet to hear from is actually desperate people are worried they want to know exactly what happened to their loved ones whether they save or not and what the government is trying to do to bring them home now the to you're a refugee camp or detention camp is one place where we visited begin to some 2017 and generally 2018 and the conditions there is very very appalling in try to the 1st day we were there the the authorities there were telling us that there were only $150.00 nigerians so there are about there eventually when they had come and started running into hundreds of people that now
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you're only talking about refugees or migrants who sort of. kept in detention centers like that we're not also talking about those who are trapped behind the front lines in. after areas that were being controlled areas be controlled by the warlord but there are several 1000 other migrants especially from nigeria from other west african countries why you have to be accounted for some are believed to have been sold into slavery some may be being harvested for their organs and stuff like that so officials here and families are really really concerned about what exactly is going on and what the authorities are going to do about that and as let's hear you were talking there about some of the the horrors that we hear these stories filtering nice a by the the hardships that these migrants and and yet people are still making that journey they're still traveling from countries like nigeria to libya
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why is this think that these events will have any impact on the flow of people. how the defect of the matinees migration is unstoppable in the west africa sub region chiefly because of the accords protocol per protocol on the movement of goods and people in the sub region there are at least 15 countries in their course regional block so movement from one nation to the other everybody is free to move but you cannot stop somebody from crossing nigeria's border in tunisia and it depends on whether or not the authorities in asia are able to stop the person crossing from nisha into libya a large area of things like that however we were in libya you know was it was in libya and of course in egypt this year we met some of these refugees in i get is in the city of i get is know the city of august we met several of them some of them
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while forced back home what were you part treated from libya because of the situation there some of them what also came back on their own volition people not from the people from mali and and others but i met several other nigerians from retreat from ethiopia from africans from various countries there who are really really waiting to cross over despite the conditions that this told me that they're waiting for the right moment to move into libya so for them it's not a question of if but when they are really really going to libya regardless of the situation if some people will give you the reason for economic we will give you cannot reason some would say that they are threatened because of the political situation in the country with several sudanese that were said they're not going back but i asked them whether or not they were willing to go back now that bashir is no longer in power a lot of them said to me no they're not going back to sudan they're destined to go to europe and the proceed to libya despite the situation there ok ideas are
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starting us alive from a bridge i thank you very much indeed let's all see accies a spokesman for the mediterranean and africa at the un high commission for refugees he says the situation is dire and migrants in tripoli need to be evacuated immediately. this is a horrific tragedy the should never have happened around 2 months ago you an a.c.l. warned that these people in side this sentence and needed to be evacuated that was after an airstrike badly damaged the roof and injured 2 of the detainees we called for that urgent evacuation then that didn't happen they remains detained inside the center and sadly people have paid the tragic consequence pretty tragic price of with their life last night. these aren't.
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