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British Airways crew error grounds flight to Brussels, costs airline £100,000
British Airways Airbus A321neo © Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia, on wikepedia A British Airways (BA) flight from London Heathrow to Brussels was cancelled on Monday, 13 January, after a crew member accidentally deployed the emergency slide on an Airbus A321, rendering the aircraft unusable. The mishap caused a three-hour delay for passengers while a replacement jet was arranged and is estimated to have cost the airline £100,000.
A source highlighted that such errors are rare due to extensive crew training, making this incident particularly surprising. BA apologised to the affected passengers and worked quickly to resolve the issue.
The information appeared first in the British newspaper The Sun and was reproduced in a few other British and US newspapers. However, it was impossible for Aviation24.be to confirm some details:
- The registration of the affected aircraft. It may be A321neo G-NEOY, which did not operate any flight on 13 January
- The registration and flight times of the replacement aircraft. Only two scheduled BA flights operated to Brussels on 13 January: BA388 and BA398, and both arrived on schedule. No BA flight was recorded with a 3-hour delay at Brussels Airport.
This follows a similar incident last year when a BA captain deployed an emergency slide on the ground, delaying another flight to Bucharest.
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British Airways crew error grounds flight to Brussels, costs airline £100,000A recent incident involving a British Airways flight to Brussels has left the airline facing a hefty bill of £100,000 after a crew error forced the plane to be grounded.
The flight, which was scheduled to depart from London Heathrow to Brussels, was delayed for several hours due to a mistake made by the flight crew. The error, which has not been disclosed by the airline, resulted in the plane being unable to take off and forced passengers to wait on the tarmac while the issue was resolved.
As a result of the delay, British Airways was forced to cover the costs of rebooking passengers on alternative flights, providing accommodation for those who were stranded overnight, and compensating passengers for the inconvenience caused.
The incident has left the airline reeling from the financial impact, with the £100,000 bill likely to have a significant impact on its bottom line. It serves as a stark reminder of the importance of thorough training and oversight for flight crew members to prevent costly errors like this from occurring in the future.
British Airways has issued a statement apologizing for the inconvenience caused to passengers and assuring that steps will be taken to prevent similar incidents from happening again. The airline has also offered affected passengers compensation in the form of vouchers or frequent flyer miles as a gesture of goodwill.
This incident serves as a cautionary tale for airlines to ensure that their crew members are properly trained and equipped to handle all aspects of their jobs to avoid costly mistakes that can harm both the airline’s reputation and its finances.
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#British #Airways #crew #error #grounds #flight #Brussels #costs #airlineMontgomery County argues it is not liable for student’s death off school grounds
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Alexis Jones-McDaniel, the mother of Jailyn Jones, a Northwest High School student who was killed in 2022, is suing Montgomery County Public Schools, saying they could have prevented his death. (Photo courtesy of Alexis Jones-McDaniel) The Montgomery County Board of Education last month moved to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a Northwest High School student who was found dead two miles from the Germantown school in January 2022.
County lawyers argued that the death of Jailyn Jones was not the school system’s fault, because he was not at school — he was suspended at the time — and school officials could not have predicted his assault and death.
“Plaintiffs fail to include any facts to plausibly indicate that the (Board of Education) knew or should have foreseen the January 21 assault and murder that occurred during Jailyn’s suspension, while off school grounds, by others,” states the motion to dismiss, prepared by Montgomery County Attorney John Markovs and three others.
“In short, the Complaint is completely devoid of any facts to support that the particular alleged harms at issue were foreseeable to the BOE or its unnamed employees.”
Jones had physical and emotional disabilities, PTSD, ADHD and severe anxiety, causing him to be placed on behavioral improvement plans and individualized education programs. His mother, Alexis Jones-McDaniel, who sued in October, says he was bullied at Clarksburg High School, and was beaten and robbed by classmates; on one occasion, her complaint states, he suffered a torn retina.
Jones’s behavioral improvement plan at Clarksburg High School “recognized that Jailyn instigated gossip and then negatively reacted when he was called names in return,” the county’s motion states. “Jailyn was also physically aggressive and was targeting other students.”
It says he was suspended twice from Clarksburg High School “for fighting and engaging in peer conflicts in the hallways,” then expelled after he brought a gun and loaded magazine to school. He was later reassigned to Northwest High School, where the county says he was “given a fresh start.”
At Northwest, he was suspended in December 2021 “for using threatening, offensive, abusive, and disrespectful language towards staff members,” and in January 2022 after a conflict with another student.
Jones-McDaniel said her son should have been allowed to attend a virtual school because it would have allowed him to improve his behavioral issues and perform better academically, but an MCPS official allegedly threatened truancy charges if he did not attend Northwest High School in person, the complaint says.
She argues school officials violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in suspending him, “failed to protect him despite the actual notice of the dangers of bullying and harassment based on his disability, and created a danger to him that was the proximate cause of his death.”
“Jailyn was treated like an aggressor instead of being treated like a victim,” Tonya Sweat, Jones-McDaniel’s lawyer, said in an October interview.
The complaint also names unspecified “Jane/John Does” as defendants. Sweat said that was included so that she could bring claims against Jones’s bullies or school personnel if they collect evidence in the discovery process that indicates liability.
One of Jones’s classmates was charged with murdering him, but a jury found him not guilty in 2023. The records of the trial are sealed because the defendant was a minor, even though he was tried as an adult.
In a recent court case, Montgomery County is arguing that it is not liable for the tragic death of a student who died off school grounds. The county’s legal team is claiming that the incident occurred outside of school property and therefore the county cannot be held responsible.The student’s family is fighting back, arguing that the school should have done more to protect their child, even when they were not on school grounds. They believe that the school had a duty to ensure the safety of their students at all times, regardless of where they were.
This case raises important questions about the extent of a school’s responsibility for its students, both on and off school property. It will be interesting to see how the court rules on this matter and what implications it may have for future cases involving student safety.
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Scientists Discovered An Amazing Practical Use For Your Leftover Coffee Grounds : ScienceAlert
We could be producing concrete that’s 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia discovered.
Their clever recipe could solve multiple problems at the same time.
Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms (22 billion pounds) of coffee waste globally. Most ends up in landfills.
“The disposal of organic waste poses an environmental challenge as it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide, which contribute to climate change,” explained RMIT University engineer Rajeev Roychand.
Once used to make coffee, the grounds become waste. (Andrew Kenney/Unsplash) With a booming construction market globally, there’s also an ever increasing demand for resource intensive concrete causing another set of environmental challenges too.
“The ongoing extraction of natural sand around the world – typically taken from river beds and banks – to meet the rapidly growing demands of the construction industry has a big impact on the environment,” said RMIT engineer Jie Li.
“There are critical and long-lasting challenges in maintaining a sustainable supply of sand due to the finite nature of resources and the environmental impacts of sand mining. With a circular-economy approach, we could keep organic waste out of landfill and also better preserve our natural resources like sand.”
Global demand for sand is increasing, and with it environmental impacts. (Pixabay/Pexels) Organic products like coffee grounds can’t be added directly to concrete because they leak chemicals that weaken the building material’s strength. So using low energy levels the team heated coffee waste to over 350 °C (around 660 °F) while depriving it of oxygen.
This process is called pyrolyzing. It breaks down the organic molecules, resulting in a porous, carbon-rich charcoal called biochar, that can form bonds with and thereby incorporate itself into the cement matrix.
Roychand and colleagues also tried pyrolyzing the coffee grounds at 500 °C but the resulting biochar particles were not as strong.
Scanning electron microscope images of the surface structures on the pyrolyzed coffee grinds. (Roychand et al, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023) The researchers cautioned that they still need to assess the long term durability of their cement product. They’re now working on testing how the hybrid coffee-cement performs under freeze/thaw cycles, water absorption, abrasions and many more stressors.
The team is also working on creating biochars from other organic waste sources, including wood, food waste and agricultural waste.
“Our research is in the early stages, but these exciting findings offer an innovative way to greatly reduce the amount of organic waste that goes to landfill,” said RMIT engineer Shannon Kilmartin-Lynch.
“Inspiration for my research, from an Indigenous perspective, involves Caring for Country, ensuring there’s a sustainable life cycle for all materials and avoiding things going into landfill to minimize the impact on the environment.”
Their research was published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
An earlier version of this article was published in September 2023.
Did you know that your leftover coffee grounds could have an amazing practical use beyond just being thrown away? Scientists have recently discovered a groundbreaking new application for coffee grounds that could revolutionize the way we think about waste.Researchers have found that coffee grounds can be used to effectively remove heavy metals such as lead and mercury from water. This discovery has the potential to have significant implications for environmental remediation efforts, as heavy metal contamination is a major concern in many parts of the world.
The process involves treating the coffee grounds with a special chemical solution, which allows them to bind to the heavy metals and remove them from the water. This method is not only effective, but also sustainable and cost-efficient, making it a promising solution for addressing heavy metal pollution.
So next time you finish your morning cup of coffee, think twice before throwing away those grounds. They could have a valuable second life as a powerful tool for cleaning up our environment. Who knew that something as simple as coffee grounds could have such a big impact?
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