By Alexandra Skores, CNN

Washington (CNN) — An Air Canada regional jet landing at one of the country’s busiest and most prominent airports slammed into a firetruck at more than 100 miles per hour on Sunday, leaving federal investigators and frightened passengers questioning what could have gone wrong.

The National Transportation Safety Board is combing through wreckage and collecting data to find answers in the first days of an investigation that will take a year or longer.

“We have a lot of data right now, a lot of information, including information on tower staffing, but the NTSB deals in facts,” said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the NTSB at a news conference on Monday. “We don’t speculate. We don’t take one person at their word. We verify that information carefully before we provide it.”

Air Canada Express flight 8646, operated by Jazz Aviation, had 72 passengers and four crew members on board for the flight from Montreal to New York’s LaGuardia. The two pilots died and dozens of passengers and two firefighters were injured.

The first several days of the investigation are going to be focused on data collection, according to Jim Brauchle, an attorney that represents plaintiffs in aviation disasters for the law firm Motley Rice.

“They won’t be doing a lot of analysis the first few days,” Brauchle said. “That’s more facts and data collection and getting witness statements and those kind of things, while it’s still fresh.”

What happened in the tower?

Questions about the people in the control tower, their responsibilities, and if all proper procedures were followed will be answered in the course of the investigation.

Homendy confirmed Tuesday there were two controllers working in the tower cab, the top of the control tower which looks out over the airfield, at the time of collision. The “local controller” manages active runways and the immediate airspace surrounding the airport. The “controller in charge” is a supervisor responsible for the safety of operations, and on the night of the crash, they were also assigned to give pilots departure information.

The NTSB says the staffing was standard operating procedure for LaGuardia at that time of the night, but whether that procedure was adequate will also be investigated.

Another part of the investigation is to determine which of the controllers were responsible for the aircraft and vehicles on the ground.

“It is not clear who was conducting the duties of the ground controller. We have conflicting information,” Homendy said. That person would be tasked with managing all aircraft and vehicle movements on taxiways but typically not active runways.

There is also “conflicting information, including dates and times on the logs,” of who else was elsewhere in the air traffic control facility, she said. The NTSB will have to “rectify some of those inconsistencies,” Homendy continued.

The controllers involved in the crash continued to work for some time after the crash, and the NTSB will also investigate why they were not relieved more rapidly.

Eighteen minutes after the collision, one controller appeared to blame himself for the crash in a conversation with a pilot who saw it happen.

“That wasn’t good to watch,” the pilot said in audio recorded by LiveATC.net.

“Yeah, I know. I tried to reach out to them,” the noticeably distraught controller said. “We were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up.”

The pilot responded, “Nah man, you did the best you could.”

Investigators will probe far beyond the comment and investigate every aspect of what happened and always note accidents often have complicated causes.

“Our aviation system is incredibly safe because there are multiple, multiple layers of de

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By Alexandra Skores, CNN

Washington (CNN) — An Air Canada regional jet landing at one of the country’s busiest and most prominent airports slammed into a firetruck at more than 100 miles per hour on Sunday, leaving federal investigators and frightened passengers questioning what could have gone wrong.

The National Transportation Safety Board is combing through wreckage and collecting data to find answers in the first days of an investigation that will take a year or longer.

“We have a lot of data right now, a lot of information, including information on tower staffing, but the NTSB deals in facts,” said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the NTSB at a news conference on Monday. “We don’t speculate. We don’t take one person at their word. We verify that information carefully before we provide it.”

Air Canada Express flight 8646, operated by Jazz Aviation, had 72 passengers and four crew members on board for the flight from Montreal to New York’s LaGuardia. The two pilots died and dozens of passengers and two firefighters were injured.

The first several days of the investigation are going to be focused on data collection, according to Jim Brauchle, an attorney that represents plaintiffs in aviation disasters for the law firm Motley Rice.

“They won’t be doing a lot of analysis the first few days,” Brauchle said. “That’s more facts and data collection and getting witness statements and those kind of things, while it’s still fresh.”

What happened in the tower?

Questions about the people in the control tower, their responsibilities, and if all proper procedures were followed will be answered in the course of the investigation.

Homendy confirmed Tuesday there were two controllers working in the tower cab, the top of the control tower which looks out over the airfield, at the time of collision. The “local controller” manages active runways and the immediate airspace surrounding the airport. The “controller in charge” is a supervisor responsible for the safety of operations, and on the night of the crash, they were also assigned to give pilots departure information.

The NTSB says the staffing was standard operating procedure for LaGuardia at that time of the night, but whether that procedure was adequate will also be investigated.

Another part of the investigation is to determine which of the controllers were responsible for the aircraft and vehicles on the ground.

“It is not clear who was conducting the duties of the ground controller. We have conflicting information,” Homendy said. That person would be tasked with managing all aircraft and vehicle movements on taxiways but typically not active runways.

There is also “conflicting information, including dates and times on the logs,” of who else was elsewhere in the air traffic control facility, she said. The NTSB will have to “rectify some of those inconsistencies,” Homendy continued.

The controllers involved in the crash continu

By Stephanie Yang, CNN

(CNN) — As the war with Iran drags on, energy-starved nations in Asia –– including close US allies –– are resorting to increasingly extreme measures to keep their economies afloat.

On Tuesday, the Philippines became the first country to declare a state of national energy emergency. South Koreans have been advised to take shorter showers and charge their phones during the day to conserve electricity. While Japan will begin its biggest-ever release of emergency oil reserves this week, and told citizens there was no need to hoard toilet paper amid growing panic over potential shortages of consumer goods.

The intensifying upheaval is a grim indication of what may come for the rest of the world, as the war in Iran has choked off a critical source of crude oil and natural gas. Asian countries are heavily reliant on imports from the Middle East, which accounts for about 60% of the region’s oil supply.

After the US and Israel attacked Iran last month, Tehran effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, the only sea connection between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, restricting one-fifth of the world’s energy supply.

Energy research firm Wood Mackenzie predicted if the war continues, Brent oil prices could climb as high as $150 a barrel in the coming months, and warned an average price of $125 a barrel this year would trigger a global recession.

“With a geopolitical stalemate, a war drifting on and inventory outside the Gulf dwindling, prices across the entire crude and product complex will push up,” analysts wrote last week.

While President Trump is touting optimism the war may end soon, analysts have said even if a ceasefire came into effect, there will be months, if not years of economic pain ahead.

The conflict, now in its fourth week, has strained the commodity stockpiles that nations usually keep in reserve. The rising fuel prices have led airlines in Asia, including from Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and the Pacific to suspend or curb flights.

While many countries are scrambling to secure more raw materials from the global market, the threat of running out has raised concerns about how shortages could trickle down through Asia’s manufacturing industry and ultimately make goods like electronics, cars and textiles more scarce.

‘Everything requires machinery’

Some nations including China have restricted overseas shipments of fuel and other materials to safeguard their own domestic inventory.

South Korea is considering limiting exports of naphtha, a petroleum by-product used in plastics manufacturing, according to Yang Gi-wook, the country’s director of the industrial resource security office. A naphtha shortfall is also prompting production cuts at petrochemical companies in Japan.

Yang said the government is currently seeking other sources of naphtha, a shortage of which could affect the manufacturing of large home appliances like washing machines.

“If the situation is prolonged, we are also preparing stronger measures,” he said Tuesday.

Even if the war ends, halts in production and destruction to energy infrastructure will continue to weigh on oil and gas supply.

Last week the International Energy Agency said the historic release of 400 million barrels of crude stockpiles would not be enough to fix the energy crisis, and issued recommendations for curtailing demand such as

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Kim Jong Un, líder de Corea del Norte, ha declarado que la guerra de Estados Unidos con Irán demuestra que su país tomó la decisión correcta al conservar sus armas nucleares.

En un discurso ante la Asamblea Popular Suprema de Corea del Norte, publicado el martes, Kim acusó a Washington de “actos de terrorismo y agresión patrocinados por el Estado”, pero no mencionó a Irán por su nombre.

Kim afirmó que la situación actual demuestra claramente que Corea del Norte tenía razón al rechazar lo que describió como presión y halagos estadounidenses para que renunciara a su arsenal nuclear.

Añadió que la situación nuclear de Corea del Norte es ahora irreversible.

El presidente Donald Trump afirmó anteriormente que Irán representaba una amenaza “inminente” para Estados Unidos, meses después de declarar que había “aniquilado” las capacidades nucleares iraníes.

Trump citó la prevención de la construcción de una bomba nuclear iraní como una de las razones para lanzar ataques contra el país persa.

Para los líderes de Corea del Norte, el conflicto con Irán refuerza la creencia arraigada de que los países sin armas nucleares están expuestos al poder militar estadounidense, mientras que aquellos que las poseen pueden disuadirlo.

El momento elegido para el discurso de Kim es significativo. Trump ha dado a entender recientemente que está dispuesto a reanudar las conversaciones con el dictador de Corea del Norte, reactivando así una vía diplomática que se interrumpió en 2019.

Las últimas declaraciones de Kim sugieren que cualquier reunión futura sería muy diferente de las cumbres anteriores centradas en la desnuclearización.

Ha indicado que está dispuesto a dialogar nuevamente con Trump, pero solo si Estados Unidos reconoce a Corea del Norte como potencia nuclear y abandona lo que Pyongyang denomina su “política hostil”.

Se cree que Corea del Norte ha ensamblado docenas de ojivas nucleares y, a diferencia de Irán o Venezuela, afirma poseer armas nucleares operativas y sistemas de lanzamiento capaces de alcanzar cualquier punto del territorio continental de Estados Unidos, aunque nunca han sido probados por completo.

Recientemente, Corea del Norte realizó una serie de pruebas de armamento de alto perfil, incluyendo lanzamientos de misiles de crucero desde un nuevo buque de guerra y andanadas de lo que los medios estatales describieron como cohetes con capacidad nuclear.

En su discurso ante el Congreso del Partido de los Trabajadores el mes pasado, Kim prometió expandir el arsenal nuclear de su país, afirmando que el partido tiene la “firme voluntad” de aumentar tanto el número de armas como los medios para desplegarlas.

Kim también ha colocado a su hija adolescente, que se cree que se llama Kim Ju Ae, en el centro de estas exhibiciones, lo que indica que el programa nuclear de Corea del Norte no solo es permanente, sino que se transmite de generación en generación.

Al mismo tiempo, Pyongyang está estrechando lazos con Moscú. La televisión estatal rusa ha emitido imágenes de tropas norcoreanas entrenando cerca del frente ucraniano, presentando la relación como una sólida alianza

MORAGA, Calif. (KEYT) - Ian Armstrong slugged two 2-run homers as Saint Mary's walloped UCSB 10-4 as the two teams split their pair of games this year.

UCSB has now dropped five out of their last six games to fall to 15-7 on the year.

Cole Tryba made his first start of the season and he gave up an opposite field 2-run blast in the first inning to Armstrong.

Tryba struck out 4 in his two innings on the mound allowing three runs but only one was earned.

The Gauchos made three errors in the game.

Armstrong made it 10-2 with his second home run in the sixth inning.

UCSB got two RBI from Cole Kosciusko and a solo home run by Noah Karliner.

The Gauchos host #20 Oregon for a three-game series beginning Friday with first pitch scheduled at 4:35 p.m.

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