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...boat has room in its hold, the sharks may be kept with the rest of the catch and sold for their meat. If not, their fins, prized on the market for shark-fin soup, may be cut off and the rest of the animal--alive and bleeding--tossed back. In 2000, former President Bill Clinton signed an order banning shark finning, but that covers only U.S. fleets, and whether all of them comply is hard to know...
...government as police arrested a retired colonel who led a march through Caracas demanding Chávez's resignation. MEANWHILE Doomed Love Songs The loudest love songs in the ocean, sung by its largest animals, may soon be drowned out by noise pollution, scientists fear. The songs of male fin and blue whales travel over thousands of kilometres to attract females to mate. But noise from shipping could harm efforts to raise whale numbers
When the tail fin of a seemingly fine aircraft rips away on a clear morning, as it did in the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, you'd think blame might lie with how the plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed...
...program in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder and that both pilots on Flight 587 would have received the updated training. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate all possible causes of the crash. The NTSB has asked NASA to help it analyze the tail fin, which was made of composite materials, in its effort to determine whether some structural flaw in the plane was responsible for the still mystifying crash...
...Queens. All 260 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A300 were killed, along with five people on the ground. Investigators examining the flight recorders believe the pilot lost control after the jet twice hit turbulence from another aircraft. Inquiries are focusing on what made the plane?s tail fin and rudder apparently snap...