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Aviation Crashes and other FAA News
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Trump Administration Shuts Down ‘Quiet Skies’ Passenger Surveillance Program
TSA official who took responsibility for putting Tulsi Gabbard on list is placed on leave
—>. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...6?st=1vATQ4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“… Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noemcalled for an investigation into the program as she announced its closure on Thursday. DHS said the program cost taxpayers $200 million a year and “failed to stop a single terrorist attack.”
In a recent meeting, administration officials confronted leadership at the Transportation Security Administration over what they said was politically motivated use of the Quiet Skies program under the Biden administration, according to people familiar with the matter.
Corey Lewandowski, who has been serving as a special government employee at DHS, asked TSA staff who had been responsible for putting Gabbard in the program. Stacey Fitzmaurice, the executive assistant administrator for operations at TSA, took responsibility, some of the people said.
Fitzmaurice was subsequently put on leave and escorted out of the building, the people said.
… The program was launched in 2010, and its existence was first uncovered by the Boston Globe in 2018. Undercover U.S. air marshals travel on flights with individuals included in the program.
… Gabbard said on Fox News last month that she believes she was surveilled because she criticized former Vice President Kamala Harris. The former congresswoman was placed in the program after she attended an event at the Vatican that was organized by a European businessman who was on an F.B.I. watchlist, the New York Timesreported in January.…”
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The picture on the left is not the crashing aircraft...at least not on this flight. This plane never got that far off the ground. Consensus is no.mpre than 700 feet or so. Also, the gear was never retracted and this plane is gear up in the picture. Furthermore, it seems to me that neither engine in the crash ship is producing thrust and the condensation trails in the photo clearly shows thrusting engines.
I can't guess as to the cause of the failure, but this looks very much like a dual engine loss immediately after they rotated (took off) the aircraft. The plane was being at least somewhat controlled all the way down....wings level, nose up. I don't see the ram air turbine deployed but it's hard to tell. That would likely mean they managed to get the APU up and running for electrical power even though the main engines weren't generating it.
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On the aviation forum I frequent there are posters who claim to see what they think is the RAT, but it is too hard for me to be able to tell with the quality of the images available.
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A senior police officer has told reporters that the Air India flight AI171 crashed on a doctors’ hostel.
“The building on which it has crashed is a doctors’ hostel … we have cleared almost 70% to 80% of the area and will clear the rest soon,” they said, reports Reuters.
The Guardian has been unable to independently verify the report.
“The building on which it has crashed is a doctors’ hostel … we have cleared almost 70% to 80% of the area and will clear the rest soon,” they said, reports Reuters.
The Guardian has been unable to independently verify the report.
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British national who survived crash was traveling with his bother, family says
Jean-Nicholas Fievet
The only known survivor of the plane crash in India was traveling with his brother, according to relatives in the U.K.
The family of British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh have told NBC’s partner in the U.K., Sky News, that they have not heard from another relative they believe was also on the flight.
A flight manifest seen by NBC News shows that U.K. national Mr. Ajay Kumar Ramesh was in seat 11J.
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More on the survivor:
www.nbcnews.com
The survivor, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national of Indian origin, is “doing well” but “psychologically disturbed” by the event, according to the medical director of the Civil Hospital, where he is being treated.
Ramesh told The Hindustan Times that “it all happened so quickly.”
“Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed,” he said.
Ramesh spoke to his father just before takeoff and then again after the plane crashed, his family told NBC News’ European partner, Sky News.
He was dazed, saying that he couldn't find his brother or any other passengers and that he did not know how he lived, his other brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, told the news outlet.
“I don’t know where my brother is; I don’t see any other passengers. I don’t know how I’m alive, how I exited the plane,” Nayan Kumar Ramesh reported his brother saying.
He said he has “no words to describe” the crash.
“This is a miracle that he survived,” Nayan said of Vishwash. “But what other miracle for my other brother?”
1 survivor, 241 killed in Air India plane crash near Ahmedabad airport
Video posted to social media shortly after the crash and verified by NBC News shows plumes of thick, black smoke to the south of the airport.
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The survivor, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national of Indian origin, is “doing well” but “psychologically disturbed” by the event, according to the medical director of the Civil Hospital, where he is being treated.
Ramesh told The Hindustan Times that “it all happened so quickly.”
“Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed,” he said.
Ramesh spoke to his father just before takeoff and then again after the plane crashed, his family told NBC News’ European partner, Sky News.
He was dazed, saying that he couldn't find his brother or any other passengers and that he did not know how he lived, his other brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, told the news outlet.
“I don’t know where my brother is; I don’t see any other passengers. I don’t know how I’m alive, how I exited the plane,” Nayan Kumar Ramesh reported his brother saying.
He said he has “no words to describe” the crash.
“This is a miracle that he survived,” Nayan said of Vishwash. “But what other miracle for my other brother?”