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Japan Airlines flight was cleared to land before fiery collision
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/01/2024
» TOKYO - As Japan Airlines Co. Flight 516 approached Tokyo’s Haneda Airport late on Tuesday afternoon, all signs pointed to an uneventful conclusion to the routine one-and-a-half hour journey from Sapporo in northern Japan.
Tesla failed to fix autopilot after fatal crash, engineers say
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/08/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla Inc failed to fix limitations in its Autopilot system following a gruesome Florida crash that killed a driver in 2016, company engineers said in a family’s lawsuit over a very similar 2019 fatal collision that is headed to a jury trial.
Singapore's first monkeypox case confirmed
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/06/2022
» Singapore’s health authorities have confirmed the country’s first imported case of monkeypox since 2019, joining at least 42 countries that have reported such infections this year.
TikTok sued by content moderator traumatised by graphic videos
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/12/2021
» NEW YORK: TikTok’s 10,000 content moderators are exposed to a regular diet of child pornography, rapes, beheadings and animal mutilation, according to a lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform and its its parent, ByteDance Inc.
Indonesian divers retrieve black boxes from air crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/01/2021
» Indonesian Navy divers retrieved the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing Co jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Saturday afternoon, a key step in discovering what caused the aircraft carrying 62 people to crash.
Rusty pilots making flying errors is next aviation headache
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/12/2020
» On Sept 15, an Indonesian flight carrying 307 passengers and 11 crew to the northern city of Medan momentarily veered off the runway after landing, sparking an investigation by the country’s transport safety regulator. It found the pilot had flown less than three hours in the previous 90 days. The first officer hadn’t flown at all since Feb 1.
Deadly crash, fake pilots expose Pakistan’s broken airline
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/07/2020
» For decades Pakistan International Airlines Corp stood for a resurgent post-colonial nation, flying the flag from New York to Tokyo. Now the airline is struggling to recover from a fatal crash, years of losses, a collapse in global air travel and the stunning revelation that almost a third of the nation’s pilots obtained fake licences.
All fatalities decline since start of pandemic
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/06/2020
» Thailand is seeing fewer fatalities than usual during the Covid-19 epidemic, with deaths from all causes since October dropping by about 8% from a year earlier.
Vietnam’s new drunk-driving law slashes beer sales
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/01/2020
» HANOI: Vietnam’s new get-tough-on-drunk-driving law is reining in one of the world’s fastest-growing beer markets.
Crashed jet's elusive audio may hold key to Indonesian tragedy
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/11/2018
» Search crews hunting for the remains of Lion Air Flight JT610 have found the data recorder, engines and body parts of some of the 189 victims. But the key to solving the mystery behind the crash is still missing: the cockpit voice recorder.