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LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A train in Britain was cancelled after a pair of squirrels boarded the service and one refused to get off, Great Western Railway (GWR) said on Wednesday.

Staff tried to shoo the furry freeriders off when the train reached Redhill, Surrey, but one squirrel refused to disembark, GWR said.

"We can confirm that the 0854 Reading to Gatwick was terminated at Redhill after a couple of squirrels boarded the train at Gomshall without tickets, breaching railway byeclaws," a spokesperson for the railway said.

"We attempted to remove them at Redhill, but one refused to leave and was returned to Reading to bring an end to this nutty tail," they added.

SAO PAULO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab will pay Embraer (EMBR3.SA), opens new tab a gross amount of $150 million over its decision to walk away from talks for a commercial aviation tie-up in 2020, the Brazilian planemaker said on Monday.

The deal marks the completion of a lengthy arbitration process that began after the U.S. company aborted a $4.2 billion agreement to buy Embraer's commercial jet-making operations in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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There is no more information yet, but I thought this might interest people here as I'm personally quite curious what caused that accident. Hopefully nobody was injured.

An Aerovias DAP de Havilland Dash 8-400, registration CC-DHT performing flight V5-420 from Punta Arenas to Puerto Williams (Chile), landed on Puerto Williams' runway 26 at 11:07L (14:07z) but struck its tail onto the runway surface. The aircraft rolled out without further incident. No injuries are being reported, the aircraft however sustained substantial damage.

https://avherald.com/h?article=51d7d44e&opt=0

This is not the final report yet, but it confirms that there was an issue with the icing conditions, and it was acknowledged by the crew. It also suggests a potential issue with the de-icing system? But maybe I just read it wrongly:

15:15:42 - a single chime was heard in the cockpit. Subsequently, the crew commented on the occurrence of an AIRFRAME DE-ICING Fault;

Some other excerpts from the sequence of events:

16:19:28 - at a speed of 184 kt., the DEGRADED PERFORMANCE alert was triggered, together with a single chime. The alert was triggered concomitantly with the exchange of messages between APP-SP and the crew;

16:20:00 - the Second in Command (SIC) commented, “a lot of icing”;

16:20:57 – during the turn, at a speed of 169 kt., the INCREASE SPEED alert was triggered, in conjunction with a single chime. Immediately afterwards, vibration noise was heard in the aircraft, simultaneously with the activation of the stall alert;

16:21:09 - control of the aircraft was lost, and it entered an abnormal flight attitude until colliding with the ground. The aircraft rolled to the left to a bank-angle of 52 degrees, and then rolled to the right to a bank-angle of 94 degrees, performing a 180-degree turn in a clockwise direction. Subsequently, the turn was reversed to an anticlockwise direction, with the aircraft completing five full rotations in a flat spin before crashing into the ground.

About those alerts:

If the aircraft’s drag increased due to ice accumulation and performance was degraded, resulting in loss of cruise speed, alerts in three levels were triggered and presented to the pilots on both alert panels of the APM, as follows:

1st Level - CRUISE SPEED LOW.

The blue-colored message would indicate performance degradation of around 10%, with reduction of the Indicated Air Speed (IAS) during the cruise phase by at least 10 kt. below the speed computed by the APM. This alert would be triggered only during the cruise phase.

2nd Level - DEGRADED PERFORMANCE.

The amber-colored message would be followed by a single chime and a master caution alert, indicating a significant performance degradation in the range between 22% and 28%, induced by a significant increase in aerodynamic drag, causing a drop in cruise IAS of around 15 to 20 knots below the speed computed by the APM. This alert could be triggered during climb, cruise, or descent.

3rd Level - INCREASE SPEED.

The amber-colored message would appear flashing, followed by a single chime and a master caution alert, indicating that the degraded performance condition had worsened , reaching an IAS value below the ICING BUG + 10 kt. This alert could be triggered during climb, cruise, or descent.

I've seen a lot of positive coverage in the recent days regarding this tentative agreement, but that coverage was rather shallow. This article goes deeper, adds many details, and confirms that the story is not that simple.

A problem unfolded several minutes after take-off on flight CX383 from Hong Kong to Zurich on Monday, according to flight tracking service FlightRadar24. The five-year-old A350-1000 plane performed two wide circles and dumped fuel over the sea before returning to Hong Kong where it landed safely about 75 minutes after its departure. Cathay Pacific said it identified an engine component failure after the aircraft returned to Hong Kong.

Cathay Pacific has not specified which engine component failed, but the carrier said it was the "first of its type to suffer such failure on any A350 aircraft worldwide".

The airline said it had "identified a number of the same engine components that need to be replaced" but did not say on which model aircraft.