It was good to see Judge Jeanine covering Melania's Be Best campaign last night.
Did any other Fox personalities cover Be Best this week?
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Ethiopia crash was second Boeing 737-8 MAX plane catastrophe in 5 months
By Max Jaeger March 10, 2019 | 5:06pm
Sunday’s fatal airplane crash in Ethiopia marks the second time in just five months that a Boeing 737-8 MAX dropped out of the sky, killing everyone on board.
Another Boeing 737-8 MAX plummeted into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Oct. 29, killing all 189 crew and passengers.
That pilot had reported “speed and altimeter” issues during an earlier takeoff on the plane on the same day as the crash. Boeing later revealed that the plane’s sensors were known to malfunction — eventually causing the plane’s autopilot to send it into a fatal nosedive on a subsequent trip.
Investigators are still piecing together what caused Sunday’s fiery crash — which claimed the lives of 157 Ethiopian Airlines passengers and crew en route from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Nairobi, Kenya.
But the Ethiopian Airlines pilot reported “difficulties” shortly after takeoff, and flight data shows the plane erratically gained and lost altitude in the moments before it crashed, at one point dropping 450 feet over 21 seconds.
And both planes were practically new.
Lion Air had received its 737-8 MAX just two months before the Java crash. Ethiopian Airlines, meanwhile, got its fatal plane from Boeing in November — around the same time the company was issuing warnings about the aircraft’s sensors — and subjected it to a “rigorous first check maintenance” Feb. 4.
Boeing created the single-aisle, twin-engine 737-8 MAX model in 2016 to replace older 737s and compete with new offerings by rival Airbus.
In a bid to hasten construction, the company automated portions of its Renton, Wash., final-assembly plant — ratcheting up 737 production from 42 per month in 2014 to 52 per month in 2018, according to the Seattle Times.
In a statement, Boeing said it is “deeply saddened” by the crash and that it will “provide technical assistance” to investigators.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/10/ethiopia-crash-was-second-boeing-737-8-max-plane-catastrophe-in-5-months/
Will be interesting to see what next week holds for them.
1 hour ago. Long article, ends with:
"The Lion Air incident does not seem to have harmed Boeing’s ability to sell the Max. Boeing’s stock fell nearly 7 percent on the day of the Lion Air crash. Since then it has soared 26 percent higher, compared with a 4 percent gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index."
https://apnews.com/b9e26398c9cf41e1a337b15da39e052a
Nothing pops up prevalently on a quick news search within the last 30 days.
I'll keep an eye out.
>RECONCILE.