Welcome to a brand new edition of CNN 10.
I am your host, Carl Azuz. Hope your Tuesday is going well.
Airlines in several countries have decided to keep certain Boeing passenger planes on the ground. Boeing is among the largest aerospace companies in the world. What have One of its models current flies with an engine made by another aerospace comany, frac Pratt and Whitney, And there was a major problem over the weekend, when one of these planes powered by one of these engines.
On a United Airlines flight from Denver, Colorad to Honolulu, Hawaii, there was an engine failure on Saturday afternoon.
Passengers board aboard the plane and people on the ground heard alert a loud boom, and The pilot immediately radioed the a distress signal and turned the plane back to toward Denver internationa airport.
Despite the explosion and debreed the debris that failed fell from the plane, on the onto some populated areas of Denver, no one was hurt either on the aircraft or on the ground.
Several of the 241 people aboard the plane said that they held the hands and prayed and after the airplane flight landed safely back at the airport, people cheered before they got off the plane.
The aircraft was a Boeing 777. The engine was a Pratt and Whitney model 4000. As the U.S. government investigations investigators try tried to find out exactly what went wrong, a source told CNN they believe a fan blade in the engine came off in and desoryed another blade leading to the failure.
The Federal Aviation Administration is recommending more frequent inspections of this specific engine and several airlines in the United States and South Korea and Japan are following Boeing’s Boeings recommendation to ground dozens of these aircrafts while the new safety meassures are put in place.
There was a separated incident on Saturday invoving a different Boeing aircraft powered by the same Frac Pratt and Whitney engine. One of these engines cut caught fire on a 747 cargo flight that was flying over the Netherlands. That also happened shortly after take-off takeoff. The crew also made it back down safely, but the debreed debris that failed fell from that plane did mildly injuried injure 2 people on the ground. Boeing has joined the U.S. government in investigating what happened there.
Bad news and good news related to coronavirus cases in American. First, the number of deaths which coronavirus would sidely effect COVID-19 was cited as a factor has reached 500,000 since last winter. The number of positive tests recorded reported in the U.S. has surpassed 28 million but that’s not a record of all cases since many people who catch coronavirus have no symtoms and may not get tested.
The good news is that the number of new infections continues to drop in all but a few states. It’s the first time since last fall that the average number of new cases has been less than 65,000 per day. Health officials don’t know exactly why there’s been such a decline. Theories inculde the changing seasons. Full Flu cases have historically decreased after February.
In some places, experts believe that enough people are have recovered from coronvirus and developed the natural immunities to it. Others say increasing increased social distancing, mask wearing and vaccinations are having effect an impact But though not every health officials agrees with that.
One thing they are warning about is that new variants or mutated versions of coronavirus could still increase to its spread. Viruses are mutated mutate naturally and officials say coronavirus vaccines may not protect well as against variants.
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