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EgyptAir Flight 804 Data Recorder Indicates Smoke in Bathroom, Avionics Bay
Information pulled from EgyptAir Flight 804's data recorder suggests smoke may have been detected in the lavatory and avionics bay in the moments before the doomed flight plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, the Egyptian government said today. Some of the wreckage, recovered from the front section of the aircraft,...
EgyptAir: ‘Smoke detected’ inside cabin before crash
There were smoke alerts inside the cabin of the EgyptAir passenger plane before it crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, reports say. Smoke was detected in the toilet and the aircraft's electrics, just minutes before the signal was lost, according to data published on air industry website the Aviation Herald. However,...
Up in smoke: Kenya to torch millions of dollars worth of ivory
Nairobi National Park, Kenya. It's an overpowering display of the sheer size of Africa's poaching crisis. For the past week, several dozen men have circled a site in Nairobi National Park, unloading elephant tusks from shipping containers — many of them so big it takes two men to carry one tusk — and...
China and cigarettes: The country that won’t quit
"Don't smoke! It's killing me!" was a warning my father repeatedly told me as I grew up. I listened, yet my father only quit a few years ago, at the age of 70, after a lifetime of smoking. He says it is a miracle. It is almost standard for a man of my father's generation to smoke. A common greeting among...