Because it may cost a lot of money and time, but when you re looking at every flight that s packed, these things have to slow things down, get them back to norm at speedwise. i won t you what you think who is at fault. airlines are saying airline traffic is back to pre-pandemic levels, but they re having staffing issues, but safety can t be the fall guy in that scenario. who is responsible for fixes this problem? really it s up to the individual airlines at this point. now, we also have to include it depends on which thing we re trying to mitigate. in this particular incident, it was airline specific. they re the ones that made the mistake that caused the damage to occur. i m careful how i word this, because there s not one of a of one fix for everything. the case i was talking about
Chinese balloon that entered u.s. aur space two weeks ago. so that puts it at 40,000 feet. that make it is a possible collision hazard for commercial airliners. so that was the logic for shooting it down once it was identified as being unhabited. are there other civilian abouts beyond aircraft at that level? i m try ing to ask and not be s naive, but how much stuff is floating around at that height? not a lot. but 40,000 feet is particularly over alaska one might think, jeez, alaska is way out of way everything. airliners fly great circumstance is the routes. so when you have airline traffic going from the east coast of the united states say over to nurse in asia, japan, china, awl stral
That entered u.s. air space about two weeks ago. so that puts it at about 40,000 feet and that makes it a possible collision hazard for commercial airliners. so that was the logic for shooting it down once it was identified as being uninhabited. are there other civilian objects, other meaning beyond aircraft, commercial aircraft, at that level? i m trying to ask and not be so naive. but how much stuff is floating around at that height? not a lot. but 40,000 feet is particularly over alaska, one might think, jeez, alaska is way out away from everything. but when you think about it, airliners fly what are known as great circle routes. so when you have airline traffic going from the east coast of the united states, say, over to anywhere in asia, japan, china,
And snowstorm that has been wreaking havoc on us airline traffic this week will not prevent santa claus from making his annual christmas eve flight. the north american aerospace defense command, or norad, tracks santa s yuletide flight every year. he s currently in western australia and over 1.a billion presents have been delivered so far. let s have a look at the weather. the weather is going to stay mild for the rest of today, tonight, and for the rest of today, tonight, and for christmas day as well for most of us although it will stay pretty cloudy. of us although it will stay pretty cloud . ., of us although it will stay pretty cloud . . ., , ., ., cloudy. earlier on this morning, one weather watcher cloudy. earlier on this morning, one weather watcher spotted cloudy. earlier on this morning, one weather watcher spotted some - cloudy. earlier on this morning, one - weather watcher spotted some strange clouds over cumbria, satellite picture picks up the extent of the cloud that