Representing more than 51,000 pilots in 31 u. S. And canadian airlines. [inaudible conversations] okay. If we could go ahead and take our seats, well get started. And now i would like to welcome our webcast audience to join us this morning. Thank you for joining in with us. Lets go ahead and begin our next panel. Okay. As i mentioned earlier, im going to change my role, certainly, a little bit x im going to moderate this discussion with our friends from the faa, transport canada and the International Civil Aviation Organization otherwise known as icao. Often its been said that safety is never an end state. Those of us in the safety business know it is ever changing, and our work is never finished. We can never delude ourselves into thinking weve got all the answers, and i know most of you know that. No flight is ever routine or just like the previous one. To some degree, theres always a unique set of conditions and circumstances that present a challenge to an otherwise safe and unevent
Thanks for being with us and the panel members. We have a team that is really connection and communication in africa and we have with us and i will quickly go over the more detailed versions. We have jay ireland who was appointed in 2011. Since his appointment, jay has overseen the growth of over 1800 employees and revenues of over 2. 4 billion, with businesses across aviation, power generation, oil and gas, health care and transportation transportation. Jay is also at the number of the board of directors of the Cancer Research foundation and a trustee of st. Lawrence university. Jay, thanks a lot for being with us. Then, we have robert collymoore, ceo of safari unlimited, the leading Communications Company in africa in pioneer of the worlds most developed mobile payment system. Bob has more than 30 years of commercial experience working in the Telecom Sector and is passionate about how businesses can be capitalized in communities in more countries. The United Nation takes the United N
And to show you an example of the problem we are faced with what like to talk to you a little bad about a problem that we have in chesterfield county. The last six months of so we have been fighting the import of fly ash that would be used to build burns, to augment our soil for products that we use on ground and over 250 people came to our county to complain about this, to complain about water being polluted by the toxic chemicals and nothing has been done about it. The apartment of Energy Quality decided that fly ash is not toxic and will not hurt us and will allow the company to continue to import this. The reason we have to ask ourselves, airways are flooded, newspapers are flooded with articles and commercials basically talking about the nonsense about Global Warming. If we had regulations where going to affect jobs, benefits. And there really isnt a way for a foundation, educating people about the dangers of the environment. The here these repeated over and over again. So i am he
Welcome everyone to the opcs book night with Mark Clifford to discuss his new book today hong kong tomorrow the world. What chinas crackdown reveals about its plans to end freedom everywhere. Im Patricia Kranz the executive director of the overseas press club. Im delighted to welcome mark tonight and our moderator jody schneider. Jody was based in bloombergs Hong Kong Bureau from 2016 to 2020 and served as president of the Foreign Correspondence Club in hong kong in 2019 and 2020. As soon as jody returned from hong kong to new york last year. She joined the opc and was elected to the board in the summertime. She is now political news director at Bloomberg News here in new york. I now handed over to jody. Thanks patty and i happy to welcome everybody to this book night. I only wish it were in person, but im very pleased to introduce Mark Clifford who i overlapped with in hong kong and im pleased to call a friend and very excited to discuss this new book with them. We welcome questions,
A men dead after being in police custody. Living in the dark, 60 of people in sudan dont have access to electricity. One of the two men traveling on a stolen passport, on a missing Malaysia Airline plane was a 19yearold iranian seeking asylum in germany and giving an update on investigations in the past hour and meanwhile rescue teams are searching to find the aircraft and the plane vanished on saturday with 239 people on board. No trace has been found yet and this is the latest from the police chief. He is 19 years old and he is an iranian, and we believe he is iranian and we have been checking his background. We have also checked in with other Police Organization on his profile. And we believe that he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group. And we believe that he is trying to migrate to germany. Reporter scott hidler is here and police saying terrorism an unlikely cause for the planes disappearance so what are they focusing on . Well, they are focusing on a couple Differ