late on sunday the us national transportation safety board or ntsb confirmed the part had been found by a member of the public in his backyard in portland. i am excited to announce that we have found the door plug. thank you, bob. i will not give you bob s last name, but bob contacted us at witness@ntsb.gov with two photos of the door plug and said he found it in his back yard. it s the latest controversy to affect the boeing 737 max airliner, since it was launched back in 2015. 189 people died when a 737 max operated by indonesia s lion air, crashed into the java sea in october 2018 13 minutes after take off. then in march 2019 a 737 max operated by ethiopian air went down 6 minutes after take off from addis abbaba killing all 157 people on board. the jet was grounded worldwide for 20 months. a us investigation found boeing had failed in its design and development of the max. us aviation regulators were also criticised. our business correspondent, theo leggett, has b
Slightly different way, could have been extremely severe. what happened in this case was an unused door blew out of the aircraft when it was around 16,000 feet. it was a few minutes from take off. at that point on the flight all of the passengers would have been strapped in place. they would have had their seat belts on and the aircraft was not travelling too high. nevertheless there was still a sudden decompression. we have heard that the cabin door flew open, that the headsets were ripped off the pilot phones and other debris went out the aperture. if that same incident had happened at cruising altitude, which of the 737 is about 38,000 feet, the pressure differential between outside the plane and inside would have been much greater. people would likely, at that stage in the flight would have been moving around in public wouldn t have had their seat belts on, and in the worst case people could have been sucked out of the aircraft. there would likely have been fatalities. they would c
Flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank ou flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very much flagship aircraft. theo leggett, thank you very much indeed. . a rocket has blasted off from cape canaveral in florida, carrying the first american spacecraft to attempt a moon landing for half a century. if all goes well, the peregrine1 robot developed by astrobotic would be the first ever soft lunar landing by a private company. launched in cooperation with nasa, it s the first of six commercial robot lander missions planned for this year, in which the nasa will be, in effect, a passenger, studying the moon s surface. earlier i spoke to planetary scientist dr hannah sargeant she said that a commercial lunar landing has been tried before. there has been a few different attempts. a private company attempted lunar mission. they didn t subtly learn so hopefully this will be the first successful soft landing
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Government will break down some of this money into the different pools and whether they can reach an agreement in time to avert a government shutdown.- agreement in time to avert a government shutdown. erin, as ever, thank ou government shutdown. erin, as ever, thank you much government shutdown. erin, as ever, thank you much indeed. let s continue with the top business stories, and fasten your seatbelts because it s going to be extremely busy with more than 70 elections set to be held worldwide. here in the uk, the cost of living crisis will be front and centre of voters concerns, as our chief economics correspondent, darshini david, explains. as the new year dawns, people here in the uk, as well as policymakers, are also thinking about a looming election, and the economy is going to be front and centre, for inflation is falling, but it remains almost twice as high as the bank of england s target, which means interest rates here might not fall quite as soon or as quickly as in ot