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Negotiations on air passenger rights hit turbulence: EU Parliament takes on airlines – Talking Europe

Negotiations on air passenger rights hit turbulence: EU Parliament takes on airlines – Talking Europe

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again TALKING EUROPE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 05/06/2026 – 13:55 13:07 min From the show Reading time 1 min Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states have been trying to reach an agreement on the rights of air passengers travelling within the bloc. The current rules date back to 2004, but the scale and nature of air travel have changed dramatically since then. We take you inside the negotiations, examine the key sticking points, and explain why MEPs are pushing for stronger protections for passengers affected by delays and cancellations. Programme prepared by Oihana Almandoz, Perrine Desplats, Aline Bottin and Isabelle Romero   Talking Europe © FRANCE 24 Virginijus SINKEVICIUS Lituanian MEP, Group of the Greens/EFA Cynthia Ní Mhruchú Irish MEP, Renew Europe By: Source link

SQ321’s weather radar may have failed to display true conditions before fatal turbulence, investigators find

SQ321’s weather radar may have failed to display true conditions before fatal turbulence, investigators find

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POSSIBLE WEATHER RADAR ISSUES Investigators found that the radar could have been “under-painting” or “no-painting” – under-detecting or not detecting inclement weather altogether. A review of SIA’s Boeing 777 fleet maintenance records across around 29,000 flights found 12 cases of weather under-detection and 20 cases where weather was not detected at all. Among these, two cases of under-detected weather were recorded on SQ321 on Apr 29 and May 1, 2024, and a third – where weather went entirely undetected – was logged on May 15, six days before the incident. In all three cases, pilots reported no fault messages on the displays, and post-flight tests found no faults. The issue was not escalated to the manufacturer because SIA’s procedures then required escalation only when the same defect occurred on the same aircraft three times within 10 days – a threshold the three reports did not meet. Further evidence emerged after the incident, when pilots ferrying SQ321 from Bangkok back to Singapore on May 26 found that one of the radars was under-detecting weather. “The investigation …

3 injured as turbulence hits Delta flight landing in Sydney

3 injured as turbulence hits Delta flight landing in Sydney

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Three people were taken to a hospital after a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles encountered turbulence shortly before landing in Sydney on Friday, health officials in Australia said. Paramedics assessed five people and transported three to the city’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for further treatment, a spokesperson for the New South Wales Ambulance Service confirmed to NBC News. The three people range in age from 35 to 70 and remain in stable condition as they are treated mainly for “minor musculoskeletal injuries,” the spokesperson added. A spokesperson for the Sydney Local Health District declined to provide further details. “The most common cause for turbulence on flights around Sydney is convective storms,” according to Michael Heisel, a lecturer at The University of Sydney’s School of Civil Engineering. “These weather events are becoming more common in Australia with the warming climate,” he said in an email Friday. Flight-tracking data published by Flightradar24 showed the plane from Los Angeles landed just after 6.40 a.m. local time (3:40 p.m. Thursday ET). The flight “encountered brief turbulence upon …

Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*

Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*

Published by Jenni Sidey

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87. The images do not just show a glowing ring. They also track polarized light, a clue that reveals how magnetic fields behave near the edge of the black hole. Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics helped construct and validate the images. What they found is both steady and startling. The size of the ring stays consistent over time. Yet the polarization pattern, the “fingerprint” of magnetism, changes sharply from year to year. That shift suggests a turbulent environment close to the event horizon. It also raises a simple question that is proving hard to answer: why did the magnetic signal fade, then flip? New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have revealed a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns in the magnetic fields of supermassive black …

Is turbulence really like Jello-O? Pilots weigh in.

Is turbulence really like Jello-O? Pilots weigh in.

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A young woman pushes a balled-up piece of napkin into a cup of Jell-O, asking the viewer to imagine that it is an airplane, high in the air. “That is you flying through the sky,” she tells the camera. “There’s pressure from the bottom, pressure from the top, from the sides, pressure coming from everywhere.” She taps the top of the Jell-O, making the suspended napkin ball quiver. “This is what happens when there’s turbulence,” she says. “You feel the plane shaking, but [it] is not just going to fall down.” The video is by Australian TikToker Anna Paul. Just days after she uploaded it in June 2022, it had accumulated more than 15 million views and thousands of comments from people saying it had cured their fear of flying. Paul says she got the tip “from a real pilot.” But how accurate is the analogy? Is turbulence really like Jell-O? The origins of the Jell-O analogy The Jell-O …