month but the cost of living is still close to a a0 year high. all police forces in england and wales have been told to check their police officers against the national database to identify anyone who may have slipped through the net after the case of pc david carrick. and in tennis britain s emma raducanu and defending men s champion rafa nadal are both beaten in the australian open. more than 10,000 ambulance workers in england and wales will hold four more days of walk outs in the next two months as part of a dispute about pay. the gmb union says its members will go on strike on the 6th and 20th of february, as well as the 6th and 20th of march. another ambulance union is expected to announce its strike dates later. and today, there is disruption across the nhs in england, as nurses walked out as part of their dispute. about a quarter of hospitals and community health services are affected, though emergency care is being provided. 0ur health correspondent, dominic hugh
Sure it will impact their war effort but this has hit morale and the immediate suspect is, was this hostile action by russia? no sign of that at the moment. we can break down the possible causes. pilot error, mechanicalfailure, sabotage, error, mechanical failure, sabotage, and error, mechanicalfailure, sabotage, and hostile fire. at the moment i think the investigation is veering more towards the idea of pilot error or possible mechanical failure. more towards the idea of pilot error or possible mechanicalfailure. the aircraft was a super puma, french built. we don t know what the maintenance record was like and it was foggy conditions and i think the main problem is that the pilot would have been having to fly solo, this was not a military helicopter, so low. it was taking a delegation to the front lines, to kharkiv. president zelensky himself has done this, popping up in places like
Given them the opportunity to consider whether this is something to do with terrorism. but at the moment, there really is no objective evidence to that effect. so i think we need to be very, very careful here. there are other reasons that there could have been an explosive decompression. i don t know that those reasons are any less significant or cogent or credible than a terrorist plot. but given the history, the safety history of this particular airline and given the maintenance record of this aircraft, i think those are the reasons that seem more likely to me than terrorism. again, not knowing specifically what piece of intelligence provoked the u.s. or uk, but there s been no definitive statements whatsoever. and we need to be very careful about jumping to conclusions. let s not forget all the reporting that came out after the german airliner that crashed in southeastern france.
Tail can hit the ground and the aircraft comes up. or during landing it can occur as well. a tail strike typically occurs during takeoff when you re getting too aggressive about your climb and your vr, rotating speed, is anticipated and you start to rotate before the aircraft clears the ground. that goes to maintenance record, finances of the company, that s why this speculation about whether or not they were paying the pilots factors into the analysis. the point of the heat signature, i want to make sure it doesn t mean. when it came out, it sounded like they have proof that something fired up from the ground and left a heat signaturic strooing the plane. that s not what it means at all, yes? no, not at all. missiles can be launched without the pick up of this infrared signature. the infrared signature has to be something very significant. it s not just the temperature, chris, it s the rate at which the temperature changes that creates this ir affect. if it s quick and a long draw
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