https://www.reuters.com

  • Iran’s FM to visit Pakistan to rebuild ties after missile strikes | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/irans-foreign-minister-visit-pakistan-next-week-islamabad-says-2024-01-22

    • Iran-Pakistan shift toward thaw after missile strikes
    • Iranian ambassador to return to Islamabad
    • Both countries had struck what they call militants havens

    ISLAMABAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Monday Iran’s foreign minister will visit the country next week, signaling efforts to mend relations after the neighbours exchanged missile strikes last week at what they said were militant targets.

    Ambassadors of both countries have also been asked to return to their posts by Jan. 26, the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement. Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian would visit on Monday, and said its ambassador would resume duties in Islamabad on Friday.

  • أميركا أمام لحظة الحقيقة : الحلّ برحيل « بيبي »؟
    https://al-akhbar.com/Palestine/375480

    L’option des pro-USA dans le monde arabe : normalisation (de l’Arabie saoudite) avec Israël contre arrêt des combats, libération des otages et (plus ou moins vague ?) reconnaissance d’un Etat palestinien (via l’AG des Nations-Unies ?). Tout cela pour éviter un embrasement régional. L’opinion israélienne voudra-t-elle de cette idée (voir plus bas).

    من جهة أخرى، وبحسب تقرير نشرته صحيفة «الفايننشال تايمز» البريطانية، فإن دولاً عربية عدّة تعمل على مبادرة للتوصّل إلى وقف لإطلاق النار في قطاع غزة، وإطلاق سراح الأسرى الإسرائيليين، كجزء من خطّة أوسع تتضمّن تطبيعاً للعلاقات بين السعودية وإسرائيل، إذا ما وافقت الأخيرة على خطوات «لا يمكن الانقلاب عليها» نحو إقامة دولة فلسطينية مستقلّة. ونقلت الصحيفة عن مسؤول عربي قوله إن «الدول العربية تأمل في تقديم الخطة خلال أسابيع قليلة في مسعى لإنهاء الحرب، ومنع توسّع النزاع في الشرق الأوسط». وبحسب التقرير، ناقش مسؤولون عرب مع الولايات المتحدة ودول أوروبية، المقترح الذي يتضمّن «نوعاً من الاعتراف بدولة فلسطينية، أو دعماً كاملاً لعضوية فلسطين في الأمم المتحدة». كما نقلت الصحيفة عن أحد المسؤولين، قوله إن «القضية الرئيسية تتمثّل في أن هناك حاجة إلى إعطاء الفلسطينيين أملاً (...) لا يُمكن أن يقتصر الأمر على فوائد اقتصادية أو إزالة بعض رموز الاحتلال»، مضيفاً أنه «بالنظر إلى الجسم السياسي الموجود حالياً في إسرائيل، فلا شيء غير التطبيع يُنزِل الإسرائيليين عن الشجرة».

    ويبدو أن واشنطن والرياض تناقشان الجزء الفلسطيني من الصفقة، والذي يُتوقّع أن يشمل تجميداً لبناء المستوطنات في الضفة الغربية، وزيادة المساعدات للسلطة الفلسطينية، وخارطة طريق لإقامة دولة فلسطينية، بحسب الصحيفة. ويفترض التقرير أن السعودية «تفهم أن ثمّة ضرورة لانتزاع تنازلات مهمة من إسرائيل»، وأنه يُتوقّع من الحكومة الإسرائيلية أن «تأخذ خطوات ملموسة أكثر نحو إقامة دولة فلسطينية».

    La lecture des mêmes conjectures par Al(Manar (https://french.almanar.com.lb/2852456)

    Le journal britannique Financial Times s’est arrêté sur les récentes déclarations du membre du cabinet de guerre israélien, Gadi Eisenkot, et sur l’ampleur de leur contradiction avec les propos du Premier ministre d’occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Eisenkot avait déclaré : « Nous devons dire qu’il est impossible de rendre les prisonniers vivants dans un avenir proche sans un accord (avec le Hamas) », ajoutant « qu’ Israël doit envisager d’arrêter les combats pour une longue période dans le cadre d’un tel accord ».

    Les déclarations d’Eizenkot interviennent alors que Netanyahu s’est engagé, lors d’une conférence de presse jeudi, à « continuer à se battre avec toutes les forces jusqu’à la victoire complète sur le Hamas ».

    Le journal a cité trois personnes proches des relations entre Netanyahu et le ministre de la Sécurité de son gouvernement, Yoav Galant, qui ont déclaré que les deux hommes « se sont à peine parlé », soulignant que « les conférences de presse conjointes entre eux et le troisième membre du cabinet, Benny Gantz, qui ont eu lieu au premiers mois de la guerre, avaient cessés ».

    Le journal a souligné que « la détérioration des relations a été exacerbée par l’appel d’un certain nombre d’Israéliens à parvenir à un accord sur la libération des prisonniers israéliens, au prix de l’arrêt de la guerre, appels que Netanyahu et Gallant ont catégoriquement rejetés ».

    Des responsables et analystes israéliens et américains affirment que « des préoccupations politiques internes ont empêché Netanyahu de discuter de cette question », rappelant que « Gallant a critiqué indirectement Netanyahu pour son hésitation politique ».

    L’humeur du public israélien a joué un rôle dans cette division croissante, alors que les proches des prisonniers continuent de critiquer publiquement la guerre en cours dans la bande de Gaza, qui ne fait qu’exposer leurs enfants à davantage de dangers.

    Dans le même contexte, le journal israélien Jerusalem Post a cité un haut responsable d’un des partis d’opposition israéliens qui a déclaré que les Américains se rendaient compte que « Netanyahu est impuissant en raison de la situation politique dans laquelle il se trouve ».

    Le journal a ajouté que « Netanyahu, craignant la réaction des électeurs israéliens, est allé jusqu’à cacher sa troisième phase de la guerre, non seulement à son cabinet de guerre, mais aussi au public ».

    Le Jerusalem Post a constaté que « les voix d’inquiétude croissantes émanant de Washington affectent la scène politique israélienne ».

    Selon le journal, la question n’était plus de savoir si les élections auraient lieu en 2024, mais plutôt : » Quand auront-elles lieu en 2024 ? », notant que « la majorité des membres de la coalition gouvernementale ne veut pas organiser des élections dans un avenir proche et qu’ils ne sont pas pressés ».

    En revanche, le ministre israélien de la Sécurité nationale, Itamar Ben Gvir, continue à lui seul de progresser dans les sondages d’opinion internes, malgré son échec massif à réduire la criminalité au sein de la société israélienne, selon le journal, qui suggère que « la guerre en cours et les distributions d’armes aux équipes d’urgence de réserve jouent à son avantage ».

  • German government considers delivery of tank ammunition to Israel - Spiegel | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/german-government-considers-delivery-tank-ammunition-israel-spiegel-2024-01

    Germany’s government is considering the delivery of tank ammunition to Israel to support it in its fight against Hamas, according to German magazine Der Spiegel on Tuesday.
    The departments involved have already agreed in principle to fulfil a request from the Israeli government, the report said.
    The request to supply around 10,000 rounds of 120mm precision ammunition for the Israeli army was received by Berlin in November.
    Since the industry cannot deliver the desired precision ammunition immediately, the option to first release ammunition from German army stocks is being considered, in order to respond to the request promptly, according to the report.
    A German government spokesperson was not immediately available for comment outside of regular business hours.

    #génocide #complicité

  • Exclusive: Unity Software to cut 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/technology/unity-software-cutting-25-staff-company-reset-continuation-2024-01-08

    Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, the company said in a regulatory filing and internal company memo on Monday.

    After the announcement, Unity shares were up nearly 5% in after-hours trading.

    #jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #finance #business #unity #licenciements

  • Crash évité du vol Alaska Airlines : Boeing sous pression après la remise en cause de la fiabilité du 737 Max
    https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/01/08/crash-evite-du-vol-alaska-airlines-un-miracle-pour-les-passagers-une-catastr


    Le Boeing 737 Max 9 qui a effectué le vol 1282 d’Alaska Airlines, à Portland (Oregon), le 8 janvier 2024.
    NTSB / AFP

    Avec le nouvel accident qui a affecté l’avionneur américain, c’est sa capacité à produire vite et bien ses appareils qui est en doute. Lundi, United Airlines et Alaska Airlines ont annoncé avoir découvert des fragilités sur d’autres appareils.

    Un « bouchon de porte » (#door_plug) qui vient obstruer l’emplacement d’une porte de sortie de secours de l’avion non installée (elle est obligatoire dans des configurations de la cabine avec plus de passagers) qui s’est désolidarisé du fuselage dans la phase ascensionnelle du vol.

    Pas de passager au droit de la porte, mais un adolescent assis le rang précédent avec sa maman à sa droite.
    #737_Max

    • le témoignage de la maman

      When Alaska flight 1282 blew open, a mom went into ‘go mode’ to protect her son | The Seattle Times
      https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/when-hole-opened-on-alaska-flight-1282-a-mom-held-tight-to-her-son


      A passenger view of the door plug hole on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9, flight 1282, which was forced to return to Portland airport on Friday....
      Courtesy Elizabeth Le via Instagram

      When the Boeing 737 MAX 9’s side blew out explosively on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Friday evening, a 15-year-old high school student was in the window seat in the row directly ahead, his shoulder beside the edge of the gaping hole.

      His mother, who was seated beside him, in the middle seat of row 25, described the moment as a very loud bang, like “a bomb exploding.”

      As the air in the passenger cabin rushed out, the Oregon woman turned and saw her son’s seat twisting backward toward the hole, his seat headrest ripped off and sucked into the void, her son’s arms jerked upward.

      “He and his seat were pulled back and towards the exterior of the plane in the direction of the hole,” she said. “I reached over and grabbed his body and pulled him towards me over the armrest.”

      To avoid being inundated with further media calls, the woman, who is in her 50s, a lawyer and a former journalist, asked to be identified only by her middle name, Faye.

      “I was probably as filled with adrenaline as I’ve ever been in my life,” Faye said.

    • le cas n’est pas isolé – on est chez Boeing… – les compagnies équipées d’appareils dans la même configuration découvrent qu’il y a un peu partout des boulons mais serrés

      Des vérifications sur des Boeing 737 MAX font apparaître des équipements mal fixés sur des appareils d’Alaska Airlines et United
      https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/01/08/un-avion-alaska-airlines-perd-une-porte-en-plein-vol-l-action-boeing-en-fort


      La compagnie Alaska Airlines a décidé de maintenir au sol ses 737 MAX 9 après l’envol spectaculaire d’une porte qui a provoqué, vendredi soir, l’atterrissage d’urgence de l’un de ses appareils aux Etats-Unis.
      HANDOUT / AFP

      Les compagnies aériennes américaines United Airlines et Alaska Airlines ont rapporté, lundi 8 janvier, avoir trouvé des éléments mal fixés lors de vérifications de leurs appareils Boeing 737 MAX 9, après qu’un avion de ce type a perdu une porte en plein vol vendredi.
      United, qui exploite la plus importante flotte de 737 MAX 9 du monde (79 appareils), a révélé avoir découvert des « boulons qui nécessitaient d’être resserrés » lors de vérifications sur les portes condamnées de ce modèle, les mêmes que celle qui a été arrachée lors du vol 1282 d’Alaska Airlines aux Etats-Unis, vendredi.
      « Depuis que nous avons entamé les inspections, samedi, nous avons fait des découvertes qui semblent liées à des problèmes d’installation du panneau obstruant les portes », a précisé United dans une déclaration transmise à l’Agence France-Presse. « Par exemple, des boulons qui nécessitaient d’être resserrés. » La condamnation de certaines portes est une configuration que propose Boeing à ses clients quand le nombre d’issues de secours existantes est déjà suffisant au regard du nombre de sièges dans l’appareil.
      Alaska Airlines a également annoncé avoir détecté des « équipements mal fixés » sur certains de ses appareils de ce type, à la suite d’inspections préliminaires. Ces découvertes interviennent après que l’agence américaine de l’aviation civile (FAA) a demandé des inspections sur 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9, qui sont maintenus au sol dans l’attente de ce passage en revue.
      Lundi, la compagnie Aeroméxico a déclaré être dans la « phase finale d’une inspection détaillée » et anticiper la remise en service de ses 19 MAX 9 « dans les prochains jours ».

    • dans les semaines qui précèdent, l’avion, pratiquement neuf, avait connu des incidents à répétition sur son système de pressurisation, peut-être liés à un jeu ou des vibrations de la fausse porte. Ce qui avait conduit la compagnie à ne pas utiliser l’avion sur des liaisons long-courrier (vers Hawaï).

      Alaska Airlines jet that had a cabin wall blowout made 3 recent Alaska-Hawaii flights - Alaska Public Media
      https://alaskapublic.org/2024/01/09/alaska-airlines-jet-that-had-a-cabin-wall-blowout-made-3-recent-alaska

      At the time of the blowout, the aircraft was just a few months old. Alaska Airline had restricted the jet from long flights over water after a warning light that could signal a pressurization problem lit up on three flights, on Dec. 7 and twice in January.

    • Le fabricant #Spirit_AeroSystems (qu’on a déjà croisé ici dans les épisodes de la saison précédente du feuilleton 737 Max) était – déjà – la cible de procès pour divers problèmes de qualité

      Boeing supplier that made Alaska Airlines door plug was warned of « defects » with other parts, lawsuit claims - CBS News
      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-loose-bolts-alaska-airlines-united-airlines-spirit-aerosystems-door-

      The manufacturer of the door plug that was blown out in mid-air during a Alaska Airlines flight on Friday was the focus of a class-action lawsuit filed less than a month earlier, with the complaint alleging that Spirit AeroSystems had experienced “sustained quality failures” in its products. 

      The complaint, initially filed in federal court in May and amended in December, was filed on behalf of investors in Spirit AeroSystems, which was originally a manufacturing unit of Boeing until it was spun off in 2005 (The company has no relationship with Spirit Airlines.) According to the suit, Spirit relies heavily on Boeing for orders and manufactures much of the aviation giant’s jet fuselages. 

      The lawsuit was earlier reported by the investigative publication The Lever.

      The midair incident involved a door plug, panels designed to fit into doors that typically aren’t needed on an aircraft, transforming them into windows. One of these plugs was sucked out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Airlines just minutes after the plane departed Oregon’s Portland International Airport on its way to Ontario, California. 

      Alaska and United Airlines — the only two U.S. carriers to fly the Boeing 737 Max 9 — have since said they have found loose bolts inside several other door plugs on the jets, which the Federal Aviation Administration has grounded.

      Boeing supplier that made Alaska Airlines door plug was warned of « defects » with other parts, lawsuit claims - CBS News
      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-loose-bolts-alaska-airlines-united-airlines-spirit-aerosystems-door-

      The manufacturer of the door plug that was blown out in mid-air during a Alaska Airlines flight on Friday was the focus of a class-action lawsuit filed less than a month earlier, with the complaint alleging that Spirit AeroSystems had experienced “sustained quality failures” in its products. 

      The complaint, initially filed in federal court in May and amended in December, was filed on behalf of investors in Spirit AeroSystems, which was originally a manufacturing unit of Boeing until it was spun off in 2005 (The company has no relationship with Spirit Airlines.) According to the suit, Spirit relies heavily on Boeing for orders and manufactures much of the aviation giant’s jet fuselages. 

      The lawsuit was earlier reported by the investigative publication The Lever.

      The midair incident involved a door plug, panels designed to fit into doors that typically aren’t needed on an aircraft, transforming them into windows. One of these plugs was sucked out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 flown by Alaska Airlines just minutes after the plane departed Oregon’s Portland International Airport on its way to Ontario, California. 

      Alaska and United Airlines — the only two U.S. carriers to fly the Boeing 737 Max 9 — have since said they have found loose bolts inside several other door plugs on the jets, which the Federal Aviation Administration has grounded.

    • L’expert : c’est normal, dans le secteur aéronautique, c’est plein de petits jeunes qui bossent comme des cochons.
      (traduction libre…)

      Quest Means Business sur X 
      https://twitter.com/questCNN/status/1744775723192119498

      “We have a relatively young workforce throughout the aerospace supply chain, and it is showing up in quality escapes that we experienced all throughout 2023.”

      Citi analyst Jason Gursky on the aviation industry following a Boeing plane’s mid-air fuselage blowout.

    • ça aurait peut-être coûte (un peu) plus cher d’utiliser une conception garantissant la sécurité (#safety_by_design). Ben oui, une pièce – introduite par l’intérieur – dont les bords débordent de l’ouverture dans le fuselage…

      Aviation experts raise questions about 737 Max ‘door plug’ design | CNN Business
      https://www.cnn.com/business/boeing-737-max/index.html

      In interviews with CNN, some experts argued that if that door plug were designed to be larger than the opening it covers and installed inside the plane, the force of the pressurized air in the passenger cabin would force the plug against the plane’s interior frame and a situation such as the one on the Alaska Airlines flight could have been avoided. However, such a design could have added costs and practical disadvantages, some said.

    • Chez Boeing, la finance contre les ingénieurs
      https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/01/11/chez-boeing-la-finance-contre-les-ingenieurs_6210186_3232.html

      Les nouveaux déboires des 737 MAX, déjà responsables de deux catastrophes en 2018 et 2019, illustrent la bascule de la culture d’entreprise intervenue au tournant du siècle chez l’avionneur américain.

      Après la catastrophe évitée à bord d’un #Boeing #737 MAX 9 d’Alaska Airlines, dont une partie du fuselage a été arrachée, vendredi 5 janvier, le PDG de l’avionneur américain, David Calhoun, a fait amende honorable devant les cadres de Boeing réunis, mardi 9 janvier, en urgence : « Nous allons aborder cela d’abord en reconnaissant notre erreur », a-t-il expliqué, ajoutant que les compagnies aériennes étaient « profondément ébranlées », mais qu’elles allaient conserver leur« confiance en [eux] tous ».

      Vraiment ? Après que les inspections d’autres appareils ont montré que les vis de la pièce qui bouche l’espace réservé à une possible porte de secours supplémentaire n’étaient pas bien serrées ? Après la catastrophe de deux 737 MAX en 2018 (Lion Air, Indonésie, 189 morts) et 2019 (Ethiopian Airlines, 157 morts), qui ont révélé des défauts de #conception et une volonté de dissimulation aux autorités de régulation américaines ?

      On peut prétendre, comme certains analystes financiers, qu’il s’agit d’un problème de contrôle qualité qui sera vite surmonté. En réalité, la confiance en Boeing est brisée. « Ils sont revenus cinq ans en arrière. Calhoun doit faire quelque chose de radical pour sortir de cela. C’est une entreprise qui semble se soucier des profits plus que de la sécurité », a accusé, le 9 janvier sur CNBC, Paul Argenti, professeur de communication d’entreprise à l’université Dartmouth (New Hampshire).

      Politique d’économies

      De fait, le logiciel de M. Calhoun et des équipes de Boeing est en cause. Le patron est un disciple de Jack Welch (1935-2020), qui, dirigeant de General Electric de 1981 à 2001, en avait fait l’entreprise la plus puissante du monde, privilégiant la rentabilité. Le conglomérat s’est effondré et a fini démantelé, tandis que Jack Welch est accusé d’avoir tué le capitalisme industriel américain. Ses héritiers, parmi lesquels M. Calhoun, sont aujourd’hui accusés de tuer Boeing, géant de l’aéronautique civile et militaire. Trop gros pour tomber, il aurait peut-être sombré s’il n’était pas stratégique et n’avait pas été sauvé par le refinancement avantageux des « années Covid ».

      Tout remonte à la bascule de la culture d’entreprise intervenue au tournant du siècle, avec la montée d’Airbus, que la firme n’avait jamais pris au sérieux, et la course aux #économies. Comme l’explique le journaliste Peter Robison dans son ouvrage Flying Blind (« voler à l’aveugle », Anchor Books, 2021, non traduit), le slogan de l’entreprise, « travailler ensemble », est devenu « davantage pour moins cher ». Boeing est passé d’une culture d’ingénieurs à une culture de financiers et de commerciaux. En dépit de ses déboires, il vaut plus qu’Airbus en Bourse.

      Le drame se noue en 2000, lors d’une grande #grève des 23 000 #ingénieurs de Seattle (Etat de Washington), qui conduit à un divorce entre les ingénieurs syndiqués et la direction. Cette dernière décide alors de déménager son siège à Chicago (Illinois), loin de ses centres de production.

      Il faut aussi faire des économies sur les nouveaux projets. Le lancement du Boeing 777 avait fait la fierté des équipes dans les années 1990. Pour son projet de 787 Dreamliner, la direction fixe un budget plus faible de 60 % que celui du 777. Boeing décide d’en délocaliser la production dans l’Etat non syndiqué de Caroline du Sud, avec des #salaires deux fois moindres, mais peine à former ses techniciens. En Europe, le droit du travail, qui complique les licenciements et renchérit la main-d’œuvre, force Airbus à monter en gamme et en automatisation.

      Multiples défaillances de production

      La demande de moyen-courriers s’envole, pour la plus grande joie d’Airbus, dont les A320 sont nettement moins chers que les 737 de Boeing. L’avionneur de Seattle subit alors plusieurs humiliations : en 2010, le patron de Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, propose d’acheter 300 Boeing 737 à un prix 20 % au-dessous du coût de revient de Boeing. Un an plus tard, American Airlines menace de préférer l’A320. La direction de Boeing décide non pas de concevoir un nouvel appareil, ce qui aurait coûté 25 milliards de dollars (près de 23 milliards d’euros), mais de moderniser ses 737, moyennant 2,5 milliards de dollars. Le projet est mal conçu : les moteurs plus gros, fixés plus en avant sous les ailes, déséquilibrent l’appareil. Plutôt qu’une correction très coûteuse de la conception de l’avion, on lui adjoint un logiciel pour le rééquilibrer.

      Boeing se heurte alors à une nouvelle exigence des compagnies aériennes low cost américaines : elles ne veulent pas que leurs pilotes aient à suivre de coûteuses formations et souhaitent qu’ils puissent passer, comme chez Airbus, d’un modèle à l’autre. Boeing prétend, contre l’évidence, que les pilotes n’ont pas besoin d’une #formation pour piloter les 737 MAX, ce qui sera fatal aux pilotes de Lion Air et d’Ethiopian Airlines.

      Pendant ce temps, l’entreprise rachète ses actions pour soutenir son cours de Bourse, paye royalement ses dirigeants et externalise tout ce qu’elle peut. Dès 2005, elle filialise sous le nom de Spirit AeroSystems son usine de Wichita (Kansas) afin de ne pas octroyer aux ouvriers de cet Etat rural les mêmes augmentations qu’à Seattle. Elle transforme aussi des coûts fixes en coûts variables, en externalisant la fourniture du fuselage. Cette filiale, aujourd’hui en quasi-perdition économique, multiplie les défaillances de production, alors que Boeing ne joue plus qu’un rôle de concepteur et d’assembleur.
      Boeing s’intéresse-t-il encore à l’aéronautique civile ? On peut en douter, tant il est biberonné à la commande militaire, surtout depuis qu’il a fusionné, en 1997, avec le canard boiteux McDonnell Douglas. Dès 2003, une étude avait révélé que, sur la valeur de l’action de 35 dollars, la partie civile ne valait que 3 dollars. Les contrats militaires, avec leurs avances, sont tellement plus confortables ! Le nouveau déménagement de son siège, en 2022, de Chicago à Washington, confirme que la direction a pour priorité les contacts avec le Pentagone et le lobbying politique. Loin, trop loin des ingénieurs.

    • Boeing to add further quality inspections for 737 MAX | Reuters
      https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-add-further-quality-inspections-737-max-2024-01-15

      Boeing (BA.N) will add further quality inspections for the 737 MAX after a mid-air blowout of a cabin panel in an Alaska Airlines (ALK.N) MAX 9 earlier this month, the head of its commercial airplanes division said on Monday.

      The planemaker will also deploy a team to supplier Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N) - which makes and installs the plug door involved in the incident - to check and approve Spirit’s work on the plugs before fuselages are sent to Boeing’s production facilities in Washington state, Stan Deal, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a letter to Boeing employees.

      Où vont-ils chercher tout ça !?

    • et la FAA, aussi, prend de bonnes résolutions
      (c’est marrant – ou pas, comme disent certains par ici – je croyais me souvenir de bonnes résolutions du même tonneau de la même administration lors de l’affaire du MCAS)
      Alaska Airlines begins preliminary inspections on up to 20 Boeing 737-9 MAX | Reuters
      https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/alaska-airlines-begins-preliminary-inspections-up-20-boeing-737-9-max-2024-

      Under more stringent supervision, the regulator will audit the Boeing 737 MAX 9 production line and suppliers and consider having an independent entity take over from Boeing certain aspects of certifying the safety of new aircraft that the FAA previously assigned to the planemaker.

      EDIT : 08/2019, les commentaires évoquent un régulateur laxiste…
      https://seenthis.net/messages/796072

      heureusement, chez nous, on est bons, parce que, dans le nucléaire, on fait le chemin inverse : absorption de l’IRSN par l’ASN pour former l’ASNR
      https://seenthis.net/messages/1036595

    • le téléphone passé à travers le hublot a été retrouvé à Vancouver et fonctionne encore après une chute de 5000 mètres…
      (pas le Vancouver canadien, mais le Vancouver états-unien, ville voisine de Portland d’où avait décollé l’avion)

      iPhone falls thousands of feet from Alaska Airlines jet and survives
      https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/09/iphone-boeing-737-max-9-jet-fall-physics-science/72156904007

      Even as serious questions emerged about why a door plug flew off one of Alaska Airlines’ new Boeing jets last week and forced an emergency landing, one question was on the mind of many cellphone users: How in the world did an iPhone reportedly fall 16,000 feet from the aircraft and survive intact?

      Social media channels were abuzz with discussion and speculation over how the phone could have still been operable and whether the phone’s survival might find its way into an advertising campaign. USA TODAY reached out to two scientists who explained how physics would have played a role. 

      David Rakestraw, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, works with students as part of the laboratory’s science and math education program. He often talks with students about cellphones, phone drop tests, and how students can do sophisticated experiments with their phones. 

      In this case, at least three things would have worked in the phone’s favor, Rakestraw explained. 

      First, phone manufacturers have been working to make phones stronger, given the number of tumbles our mobile devices take, from much shorter distances. Phone cases and screen protectors also help protect a phone when it falls, he said. And finally, where the phone landed might have made all the difference. 

      How was the cellphone found?
      A man in Vancouver, Washington, Sean Bates, posted on X that he found the iPhone in Portland on Sunday after the National Transportation Safety Board asked people in the area to search for any pieces that might have fallen from the jet.

      Bates told a local television station he found the phone alongside a road, under a bush. He said the phone was still in airplane mode, with a baggage receipt for the Alaska Airlines flight still on its screen.

  • Fighting rages in Gaza as Israel looks at new phase of war | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fighting-rages-gaza-israel-looks-new-phase-war-2024-01-01

    Israel has signalled a coming shift in tactics, with an official saying on Monday that the military would draw down forces inside Gaza this month and shift to a months-long phase of more localised “mopping up” operations.

    The official said the troop reduction would allow some reservists to return to civilian life, shoring up Israel’s war-battered economy, and free up units in case of a wider conflict in the north with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah.

  • US allies reluctant on Red Sea task force | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us-allies-reluctant-red-sea-task-force-2023-12-28

    • US says 20 nations sign up for taskforce, but has only named 12
    • EU signals support, but Italy, Spain appear to distance themselves from taskforce
    • Analyst says countries are concerned that joining taskforce means supporting Israel
    • Protection of Rea Sea vital for global shipping

    U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to present a firm international response to Yemen’s Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping by launching a new maritime force, but a week after its launch many allies don’t want to be associated with it, publicly, or at all.

    Two of America’s European allies who were listed as contributors to Operation Prosperity Guardian - Italy and Spain - issued statements appearing to distance themselves from the maritime force.

    The Pentagon says the force is a defensive coalition of more than 20 nations to ensure billions of dollars’ worth of commerce can flow freely through a vital shipping chokepoint in Red Sea waters off Yemen.

    But nearly half of those countries have so far not come forward to acknowledge their contributions or allowed the U.S. to do so. Those contributions can range from dispatching warships to merely sending a staff officer.

    The reluctance of some U.S. allies to link themselves to the effort partly reflects the fissures created by the conflict in Gaza, which has seen Biden maintain firm support for Israel even as international criticism rises over its offensive, which Gaza’s health ministry says has killed more than 21,000 Palestinians.

    “European governments are very worried that part of their potential electorate will turn against them,” said David Hernandez, a professor of international relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, noting that the European public is increasingly critical of Israel and wary of being drawn into a conflict.

    The Iran-backed Houthis have attacked or seized a dozen ships with missiles and drones since Nov. 19, trying to inflict an international cost over Israel’s campaign, which followed the Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel by Hamas militants that killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostage.

    The navies of the United States, Britain and France have each shot down Houthi-launched drones or missiles.

    A person familiar with Biden administration thinking said the U.S. believes escalating Houthi attacks call for an international response separate from the conflict raging in Gaza.

    The Rea Sea is the entry point for ships using the Suez Canal, which handles about 12% of worldwide trade and is vital for the movement of goods between Asia and Europe. Houthi attacks have seen some ships rerouted around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, substantially increasing sailing time and costs.

    Denmark’s giant container firm Maersk said on Saturday it would resume shipping operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. But Germany’s Hapag Lloyd said on Wednesday it still believes the Red Sea is too dangerous and will continue to send ships around the Cape of Good Hope.

    DISCORD OVER GAZA
    While the U.S. says 20 countries have signed up for its maritime task force, it has announced the names of only 12.

    “We’ll allow other countries, defer to them to talk about their participation,” U.S. Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters last week.

    The EU has signaled its support of the maritime task force with a joint statement condemning the Houthi attacks.

    Although Britain, Greece and others have publicly embraced the U.S. operation, several mentioned in the U.S. announcement were quick to say they are not directly involved.

    Italy’s defense ministry said that it would send a ship to the Red Sea following requests from Italian ship owners and not as part of the U.S. operation. France said it supports efforts to secure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea but that its ships would remain under French command.

    Spain has said it will not join Operation Prosperity Guardian and opposes using an existing EU anti-piracy mission, Atalanta, to protect Red Sea shipping. But on Wednesday, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he was willing to consider the creation of a different mission to tackle the problem.

    Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates earlier proclaimed no interest in the venture.

    Public anger over Israel’s Gaza offensive helps explain some of the reluctance of political leaders. A recent Yougov poll found that strong majorities of Western Europeans - particularly Spain and Italy - think Israel should stop military action in Gaza.

    There is also the risk that participating countries become subject to Houthi retaliation. The person familiar with the U.S. administration’s thinking says that it is this risk - rather disagreements over Gaza - driving some countries to steer clear of the effort.

    That appears to be the case for India, which is unlikely to join the U.S. operation, according to a senior Indian military official. An Indian government official said the government worries that aligning itself with the U.S. could make it more of a target.

    One European diplomatic source downplayed concerns about cohesion in the coalition and said the effort was still taking shape and not in jeopardy of falling apart. The source added that Washington’s allies understood the challenges confronting Biden at home with regard to the Israel-Gaza war.

  • Venezuela and Guyana to meet on December 14 amid territorial dispute | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-urges-venezuela-avoid-inflaming-territory-dispute-with-guyana-2023-1


    People stand during an event to unveil a map of Venezuela showing the disputed Esequibo region as part of the country, as tensions between Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute, in Caracas, Venezuela, December 8, 2023.
    REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

    note : la quelqu’une devant la nouvelle carte officielle du Venezuela est sa vice-présidente Delcy Rodríguez …

    Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will meet with Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Thursday amid a territorial dispute between the two countries, according to a letter from the prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

    The announcement of the bilateral meeting came after Maduro spoke with Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who also serves as president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday.

  • La frégate « Languedoc » abat deux drones en mer Rouge
    Le marin avec AFP. Publié le 10/12/2023
    https://lemarin.ouest-france.fr/defense/la-fregate-languedoc-abat-deux-drones-en-mer-rouge-731af314-974

    L’interception s’est déroulée, hier samedi soir : la frégate multimissions de la Marine nationale a détruit deux engins sans pilotes apparemment lancés depuis le Yémen.

    La frégate Languedoc de la Marine nationale, patrouillant en mer Rouge, a abattu deux drones provenant du nord du Yémen, samedi 9 décembre dans la nuit, a annoncé ce dimanche matin un communiqué du ministère des Armées.

    Les engins, partis du territoire sous contrôle des rebelles Houthis – qui menacent de perturber le trafic sur cette voie maritime stratégique dans le cadre du conflit entre Israël et le Hamas – se dirigeaient vers la frégate multimissions française, ajoute le communiqué. Qui ne précise pas si la Languedoc a fait usage de ses missiles Aster 15, ni combien ont été tirés.

    « "L’interception et la destruction de ces deux menaces caractérisées " ont eu lieu dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, à 110 kilomètres des côtes yéménites, à la hauteur de Hodeida, port du nord du Yémen, indique-t-il seulement. (...)

  • Israel orders Gazans to flee, bombs where it sends them
    https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idsIrR?now=true

    Israel ordered people out of swathes of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday (December 4) as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south, sending desperate residents fleeing even as it dropped bombs on areas where it told them to go. Lucy Fielder has more.

    Tout est dans le titre (mais il y a aussi une vidéo).

  • COP28: US touts climate #leadership as oil and gas output hits record | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/cop28-us-touts-climate-leadership-oil-gas-output-hits-record-2023-12-02

    The United States, the world’s second largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China, has seen a surge in investment for clean energy projects ranging from solar farms to wind turbines and electric vehicle battery factories in recent years.

    But it has also grown into the globe’s biggest producer of oil and gas - the main source of climate emissions - following a technology-driven drilling boom in the sprawling Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico.

    #états-unis #foutage_de_gueule

  • L’ambassadeur d’Israël à l’ONU, à l’annonce d’une commission d’enquête chargée d’enquêter sur les violences sexuelles commises par le Hamas le 7 octobre, dénonce illico cette « commission d’enquête antisémite ».

    L’article auquel il répond : UN commission to investigate Hamas sexual violence, appeal for evidence
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-commission-investigate-hamas-sexual-violence-appeal-evidence-2023-11-29

    A U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and is about to launch an appeal for evidence, its chair told Reuters on Wednesday.

    Gilad Erdan dans ses œuvres :
    https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1730284375105819003

    The antisemitic Commission of Inquiry, established by the morally distorted Human Rights Council which recently appointed Iran as Chair of the Council’s Social Forum, is 100% biased against Israel.

    Therefore, Israel has zero trust in its findings and its illegitimate activities. Its “investigation” into the terror organization’s sexual crimes against Israeli women on October 7 is akin to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, investigating its crimes.

    The Commissioners’ pre-existing prejudice against Israel is abundantly clear: they have denied Israel’s right to be a member of the UN, they have undermined the accepted working definition of antisemitism, and they support the boycott of Israel.

    Israel will not cooperate in any way with such a discriminatory and antisemitic body.

    • Je pense que son souci n’est pas le 7 octobre. Il sait qu’après une commission d’enquête sur les crimes du Hamas le 7 octobre, il pourra y avoir une commission d’enquête sur les crimes d’Israël à Gaza. S’il admet la légitimité de la première, alors il ne pourra pas dénoncer la seconde.

      Donc préventivement : il dénonce toute forme d’enquête venant d’organes internationaux comme illégitime (ici, carrément antisémite), y compris celles qui iraient dans le sens d’Israël, de façon à délégitimer à l’avance toute enquête qui, à l’inverse, menacerait Israël.

  • Tesla workers in Germany join union as health and safety issues grow
    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-workers-germany-join-union-health-safety-issues-grow-union-2023-10-09

    9.10.2023 von Victoria Waldersee, GRUENHEIDE - Tesla (TSLA.O) workers at the carmaker’s Brandenburg plant are joining the IG Metall union in rising numbers over concerns around health, safety and overwork, the union said on Monday.

    Lack of staff and inadequate safety provisions in the workplace were leading to a high number of accidents at work, and it was not rare that around 30% of workers were signed off sick, the union said in a statement.

    Reuters was not able to independently verify the union’s claims and Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Union representatives met workers at the factory gates, on the platforms of nearby stations and inside the factory on Monday handing out stickers stating “Together for safe and fair work at Tesla”.

    On Sunday night, Tesla managers invited their teams to a meeting with “free food and a surprise” to discuss IG Metall’s presence on the site, stating: “We want to speak with you and your teams about the questionable methods and actual goals of IG Metall,” according to a copy of the email seen by Reuters.

    “The law gives all workers the right to organise in a union and stand openly for that at their workplace. That counts at Tesla in Brandenburg as well,” Dirk Schulze of IG Metall said.

    The union said it does not share specific membership numbers for companies as a matter of course, but that it has seen a steep rise in the number of new members at Tesla.

    Reuters spoke to twelve workers at the factory on Monday.

    While four said they were satisfied with working conditions, eight said pressure was too high, with some reporting high incidence of accidents and issues with receiving overtime pay.

    Two workers said they were not allowed to speak to the media.

    “Speed is not compatible with safety,” said one 56-year-old worker from Poland, who declined to be named, adding there were too few workers to meet targets and that he would seek a new job next year if conditions did not improve.

    Reporting by Victoria Waldersee; Editing by Sharon Singleton

    Victoria Waldersee - Autos correspondent in Germany, covering the industry’s transition to electric vehicles. Previously reported on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the retail sector in South Asia, China and Europe, and wider general news. Formerly at YouGov and Economy, a charity working to produce accessible economics coverage.

    #Allemagne #industrie_automobile #travail #syndicalisme

  • Too close and too cold, premature babies in grave peril at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/too-close-too-cold-premature-babies-grave-peril-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-202

    Instead, they had to be moved to ordinary beds over the weekend because of a shortage of electricity, said Tabasha. They were placed side by side, surrounded by packets of nappies, cardboard boxes of sterile gauze and plastic bags.

    “I never expected in my life that I would put 39 babies side by side on a bed, each with a different disease, and in this acute shortage of medical staff, of milk,” said Tabasha.

    The infants are too cold, and the temperature is not stable because of power cuts, he said. In the absence of infection control measures, they are transmitting viruses to each other and they have no immunity.

    He said there was no longer any way of sterilising their milk and bottle teats to the required standard. As a result, some had contracted gastritis and were suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting, which meant an acute risk of dehydration.

  • Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia

    Many of #Ukraine’s clandestine operations have had clear military objectives and contributed to the country’s defense. The car bombing that killed Daria #Dugina, however, underscored Ukraine’s embrace of what officials in Kyiv refer to as “liquidations” as a weapon of war. Over the past 20 months, the SBU and its military counterpart, the GUR, have carried out dozens of assassinations against Russian officials in occupied territories, alleged Ukrainian collaborators, military officers behind the front lines and prominent war supporters deep inside Russia. Those killed include a former Russian submarine commander jogging in a park in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar and a militant blogger at a cafe in St. Petersburg, according to Ukrainian and Western officials.

    Ukraine’s affinity for lethal operations has complicated its collaboration with the CIA, raising concerns about agency complicity and creating unease among some officials in Kyiv and Washington.

    Even those who see such lethal missions as defensible in wartime question the utility of certain strikes and decisions that led to the targeting of civilians including Dugina or her father, Alexander Dugin — who officials acknowledge was the intended mark — rather than Russians more directly linked to the war.

    “We have too many enemies who are more important to neutralize,” said a high-ranking Ukraine security official. “People who launch missiles. People who committed atrocities in Bucha.” Killing the daughter of a pro-war firebrand is “very cynical,” the official said.

    Others cited broader concerns about Ukraine’s cutthroat tactics that may seem justified now — especially against a country accused of widespread war atrocities — but could later prove difficult to rein in.

    “We are seeing the birth of a set of intelligence services that are like Mossad in the 1970s,” said a former senior CIA official, referring to the Israeli spy service long accused of carrying out assassinations in other countries. Ukraine’s proficiency at such operations “has risks for Russia,” the official said, “but it carries broader risks as well.”

    “If Ukraine’s intelligence operations become even bolder — targeting Russians in third countries, for example — you could imagine how that might cause rifts with partners and come into serious tension with Ukraine’s broader strategic goals,” the official said. Among those goals is membership in NATO and the European Union.

    [...]

    At the time, Ukraine vigorously denounced involvement in the attack. “Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like Russia, or a terrorist one at that,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky.

    Officials acknowledged in recent interviews in Kyiv, however, that those denials were false. They confirmed that the SBU planned and executed the operation, and said that while Dugin may have been the principal target, his daughter — also a vocal supporter of the invasion — was no innocent victim.

    “She is the daughter of the father of Russian propaganda,” a security official said. The car bombing and other operations inside Russia are “about narrative,” showing enemies of Ukraine that “punishment is imminent even for those who think they are untouchable.”

    • Pro-Russian Ukrainian politician is shot and wounded - family
      https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-pro-russian-politician-tsaryov-intensive-care-after-being-shot-20

      Former Ukrainian lawmaker Oleg Tsaryov, a pro-Russian figure whom sources said Moscow had lined up to lead a puppet administration in Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, was shot and wounded in a late-night attack, his family said on Friday.

      [...]

      He is listed as a “traitor to the motherland” by Myrotvorets ("Peacemaker"), a vast unofficial Ukrainian database of people considered to be enemies of the country. Its website lists personal information on him including an email address, a passport number and an address in Yalta.

      No comment was immediately available from Ukrainian intelligence.

  • At least 6 people killed in Israeli air strike on UNRWA school in Gaza | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-6-people-killed-israeli-air-strike-unrwa-school-gaza-2023-10-17

    RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (Reuters) - At least six people have been killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a school run by the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza’s Al-Maghazi refugee camp, UNRWA posted on X social media platform.