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Inside FlyDubai’s 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes

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Inside FlyDubai's 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes

This is a timeline of the four hours FlyDubai flight 1073 was in the air as a wounded captain fought off his copilot, the aircraft went into a dive and when passengers saved the day by regaining control and landing safely. Inside FlyDubai’s 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes For … Read more

Underwater sensors caught a rare event off Cornwall: one porpoise became trapped in a net while two animals exchanged possible distress calls

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Underwater sensors caught a rare event off Cornwall: one porpoise became trapped in a net while two animals exchanged possible distress calls

Bycatch, the accidental capture of animals in fishing gear is considered the world’s greatest direct human-caused threat to dolphins and porpoises. Off the coast of Cornwall, a set of underwater sensors was listening to the ocean when it detected something researchers rarely get to see. According to an online report by Phys Org, two harbor … Read more