Concorde trial to start ten years after crash
Ten years after the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people, a trial will determine whether Continental Airlines was responsible for the crash.
Previous investigations have concluded that one of the Concorde’s tires was punctured by a small piece of metal that had fallen off a departing Continental Airlines flight, hurling debris into the plane’s fuel tanks and causing a raging fire.
Continental has denied responsibility for the crash and last week its lawyer, Olivier Metzner, said he had 28 witnesses disputing that version of events.
Passengers say obese should pay ‘fat tax’
According to a recent poll by travel website Skyscanner, more than three quarters of respondents say that airlines should charge overweight passengers if they need an extra seat.
A survey by travel website Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net) found that 76 percent of people believe airlines should charge a “fat tax.”
Only 22 percent of the 550 people questioned disapproved of introducing extra payments for overweight passengers.
Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners
Is this science fiction or science fact? Several sources indicate that WeCU Technologies, a company based in Israel, may be on the verge of creating a machine that can, in a sense, read what is in a passenger’s mind without their knowledge.
“The system … projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or some other image only a would-be terrorist would recognize, company CEO Ehud Givon said.
“The logic is that people can’t help reacting, even if only subtly, to familiar images that suddenly appear in unfamiliar places. If you strolled through an airport and saw a picture of your mother, Givon explained, you couldn’t help but respond.
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