A coastguard aircraft involved in a fatal collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport was not cleared for take-off, Japanese authorities have said. The smaller aeroplane collided with a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger jet on the runway on Tuesday.
Released transcripts of air traffic control instructions just before the crash confirmed the JAL Airbus A350 was cleared to land.
Permission for take-off was not given to the coastguard Bombardier Dash-8.
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ermont-based electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies flew its Alia prototype into Montréal on Wednesday. With Beta test pilot Chris Caputo at the helm and accompanied by Beta flight test engineer Emma Davis, the Alia prototype took off from the company’s flight testing centre in New York and landed about 30 minutes and 64 miles later in Montréal. futureflight.aero
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Federal regulators found that self-driving AI systems were involved in almost 400 car crashes in the last year, with Teslas accounting for 70 per cent of the accidents.
According to the report, between 1 July of last year and 15 May of this year, there were 392 accidents involving self-driving technologies. In those accidents, six people were killed and five were seriously injured.
Of those 392, Tesla’s Autopilot, Full Self Driving mode, or at least a component of its self-driving tech was active in 273 of those crashes. independent.co.uk
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NATS’ preliminary investigation has confirmed the root cause that led to air traffic control failures. The report identified an issue with a flight plan processing sub-system called Flight Plan Reception Suite Automated – Replacement (FPRSA-R).
It was found to have encountered an extremely rare set of circumstances presented by a flight plan that included two identically named, but separate waypoint markers outside of UK airspace.
This led to a ‘critical exception’ whereby both the primary system and its backup entered a fail-safe mode. nats.aero
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A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer system.
Newcastle Hospitals warned the problem, dating back to 2018, is significant.
The BBC has been told the problems occurred when letters requiring sign-off from a senior doctor were placed into a folder few staff knew existed.
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