I’m back at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport Oregon, part of the Oregon State University campus harboring marine mammal-fisheries-benthic-ocean researchers and students. The topic: How humans decimated whale populations through hundreds of years of industrial whaling, leaving some species and populations on the brink of extinction. But despite these impacts, many whale populations
that says to me it is very unlikely this was a mechanical failure or an electrical failure or any failure. that says to me that somebody on board this airplane and the flight deck deliberately tried to turn those systems off. why? i don t know. it is something you would never, ever do. it is unheard of. we talk about the redundancy that is built into this aircraft. it is meant to fly long distances over vast, empty oceans. everything is backed up, backed up, backed up. there are at least six backups from the power systems if there would be some kind of failure. i believe, mitchell, we said eight for the hydraulic systems. height drol there are so many redundancies. it is one of the most sophisticated airplanes ever built. it has some of the most powerful