The sinister campaign, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Times, Sun, and the Daily Mail, seeks to brand strikes by tens of thousands of rail workers as the brainchild of Russian agents.
3,500 RMT members registered for Thursday’s online mass meeting, the first in the union’s history, and its largest in decades. Thousands more listened via Facebook livestream. The turnout demonstrated workers’ determination to fight.
after a number of years, you know, there was a failure. reporter: the cause traced back more than seven years when the plane s tail scraped the ground on landing. the repairs were not done properly. the plane eventually ripped away from the plane mid-flight and then there was this doomed 747 that broke apart in the air. investigators say metal around the repair work weakened and eventually caused a catastrophic structural failure. since 1982, 31 planes operated have had tail strikes. a tail strike can cause a problem. and it may not be an immediate problem. it may take years for the problem to develop. reporter: from the mangled debris field of metrojet, investigators will have to piece together whether or not an incident 14 years ago brought down this plane, something more
dissent and the previous information, the ascent as they were climbing, was there something abnormal going into that particular situation. they have the ambient recording as well. the rate of ascent at the beginning of the flight is a question of confusion. what do you see in the data? what i see is that there s it s a little bit anomalous, a little different than what you might see. each pilot as you take off, various things can affect the ascent, whether or not there s traffic in the area. sometimes the air traffic controller will tell them to ascent more quickly. i don t see that as anything really abnormal at this point, chris. speculation of previous tail strikes. what is the data, what does it mean? this is the most concerning thing to me, actually, chris, to be honest with you is the fact that this was a major structural