AIR FRANCE Flight 447

The French agency investigating the disaster said airspeed instruments on the plane had not been replaced as the maker had recommended, but cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions about what role that may have played in the crash.
The agency, BEA, said the plane received inconsistent airspeed readings from different instruments as it struggled in a massive thunderstorm.
Search crews have recovered 24 bodies (@09 June ) so far and found the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of the A330-200 plane, which could help narrow the hunt for the black boxes to determine why the jet crashed.

The data and voice recorders are located in the fuselage near the tail section of the jet.
Investigators are considering the possibility that the plane's external speed monitors - called Pitot tubes - that may have iced over and gave dangerously false readings to cockpit computers in a thunderstorm.

According to the Airbus Web site, total orders for the A330 twin-engine passenger planes so far stood at 956, of which 669 have been delivered.

Some 614 jets are operating worldwide - 269 of the larger A330-300 series and 345 of the shorter fuselage A330-200 jets, it said. - AP

Virus H1N1 a.k.a virus babi

Pelbagai penyakit ganjil kini menyerang dunia kita. Mengapa??......

Toilet king of Malaysia calls it a day

Unfinished business: Lau is giving up the seat as the chairman of Quality Restroom Association Malaysia (QRAM) as he became the Deputy Transport Minister last month.

By FOONG PEK YEE (thestar.com.my)

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s “toilet king” is stepping down next month after a five-year reign.
Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, who earned the nickname for his tireless effort in fighting for clean public toilets in the country, said: “It is an unfinished business but I have to move on.”
The 67-year-old accountant-turned-politician was inducted into the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s clean toilet campaign when he was the deputy minister in 2004.
His mission came to an end when he was appointed Deputy Transport Minister last month.
Lau is best remembered for setting up the first toilet association in Malaysia — Quality Restroom Assocation Malaysia (QRAM) — of which he has been chairman since its inception in 2005.
The Sibu MP said he is not seeking re-election at the QRAM annual general meeting to be held next month.
He said it is time for the Government to wield the stick on the country’s 148 local authorities so that they were serious in making sure that the 250,000 public toilets within their jurisdictions are clean.

“Only 60 local authorities took part in a star-rating programme for public toilets last year,” he lamented.

Previous news regarding QRAM Campaign

Cara menggunakan tandas duduk

Gambar signage ini di ambil di satu tandas yang saya "kunjugi". Ia mengajar cara menggunakan tandas duduk yang betul. Tandas di stesen LRT juga memaparkan gambar yang hampir serupa. Ia adalah penting, kerana terdapat kes kecederaan parah yang melibatkan cara penggunaan tandas duduk yang salah. Patuhi lah undang-undang walaupun di dalam tandas :) 

Bangkok beats London in carbon pollution

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Residents of the Thai capital produce as much carbon pollution as New Yorkers and more than Londoners, a U.N.-backed study released on Thursday shows.
The report, "Bangkok: Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009", underscores the city's carbon-intensive habits but also highlights the threat to Bangkok from rising seas caused by global warming.
A man walks past cars during rush-hour traffic in Bangkok in this May 4, 2007 file photo. Residents of the Thai capital produce as much carbon pollution as New Yorkers and more than Londoners, a U.N.-backed study released on Thursday shows. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif/Files)

"In per-capita terms, Bangkok was responsible for producing 7.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per annum in 2007," said the report by the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority and the Bangkok-based Green Leaf Foundation, with support from the United Nations Environment Programme.

That was the same level of emissions produced by New Yorkers in 2007. Londoners produced 5.9 tonnes per capita.

Transport and electricity generation were the main sources of greenhouse gases in Bangkok, the report said.
The paper based its calculations on the city's official population of six million but up to twice that number are believed to live in the city, many of them seasonal workers from the countryside.

Low-lying Bangkok is near the mouth of the Chao Phraya River and is already prone to flooding. In future, more days above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) were expected, along with a jump in cases of malaria and other diseases, the report said.
The maximum forecast temperature in Bangkok on Wednesday is 38 deg C, the Thai Meteorological Department said.
"The impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change on Bangkok are likely to be quite severe," said the report.
It said just over half the city would be affected by floods if the mean sea level were to rise by 50 centimetres (20 inches), and 72 per cent of the city would be affected if the mean sea level were to rise by one metre.
Land subsidence caused by over-pumping of ground water was already a major problem, along with contamination of water supplies, and both were expected to get worse as the city's population grows, it added.
The city's administration has launched a campaign to cut emissions by 15 percent by 2012 by expanding mass transit, promote renewable energy, expand parklands and improve energy efficiency.
Copyright © 2008 Reuters

The safest BMW X5

Complying with the requirements of bullet resistance class 6 (APR 2006), this is the first vehicle produced by a high-volume manufacturer to offer a security concept aimed at lessening the danger of attacks from an AK-47.Complying with the requirements of bullet resistance class 6 (APR 2006), this is the first vehicle produced by a high-volume manufacturer to offer a security concept aimed at lessening the danger of attacks from an AK-47.

The concept for the X5 Security Plus focuses on an armoured passenger cabin, which guarantees excellent protection. Utilising high-performance steel moulded components and panels, the body features sealed joints, which also provide protection in critical areas - between doors and frames as well as between side panels and pillars, thus preventing bullet or fragment penetration, as well as security glass conceived exclusively for this bullet resistance class. (thestar.com.my)

Safety - What the Auto Press Says
The federal government gives the 2009 BMW X5 a top score of five stars for driver safety and just four stars for passenger safety in frontal crash tests. In side crash tests, it gets top five-star scores for both front- and rear-seat safety.

Kemalangan Bas Ekspress dan puncanya

Bandingkan dua kisah di bawah. Di negara maju sesuatu kemalangan yang berlaku adalah disebabkan oleh kecuaian dan kesilapan sistem/polisi pihak syarikat. Sementara di Malaysia, setiap kali berlaku nya kemalangan pihak pemandu sahaja yang di dapati bersalah.

1. Apakah tindakan yang dikenakan kepada majikan mereka?
2. Adakah syarikat mempunyai polisi tidak bertulis?(contohnya kebenaran had laju yang di benarkan syarikat. Waktu tiba yang telah ditetapkan. Tempat dan jumlah masa rehat yang dipantau)
3. Siapakah yang telah memilih dan mengajikan pemandu yang mempunya berpuluh-puluh saman?
4. Apakah ganjaran yang diberikan kepada pemandu yang berhemah?

AMERIKA SYARIKAT:Wanita dilanggar bas dapat ganti rugi AS$27.5j
NEW YORK 17 April - Seorang wanita yang kehilangan kaki kirinya selepas dilanggar oleh sebuah bas syarikat New York City hari ini menerima ganti rugi berjumlah AS$27.5 juta (RM99.2 juta).
Mahkamah memerintahkan supaya syarikat bas berkenaan membayar ganti rugi itu kepada pekerja Janitorial, Gloria Aguilar, 45, selepas dia dilanggar sebuah bas ketika menyeberang jalan di Manhattan pada November 2005.
Peguam wanita itu, Ben Rubinowitz berkata, doktor telah memotong kaki wanita berkenaan sehingga paras lutut.
Katanya, peguam syarikat New York City mempertikaikan tindakan wanita berkenaan berada di luar laluan melintas sehingga terperosok di bawah sisi bas berkenaan.
Jurucakap New York City berkata, syarikat berkenaan akan mengemukakan rayuan berhubung keputusan itu. - AP
Sumber: Utusan Malaysia. 18 April.

MALAYSIA:PEMANDU MENGAKU TIDAK BERSALAH

DUA orang pemandu bas ekspres masing-masing mengaku tidak bersalah di mahkamah atas tuduhan memandu secara melulu dan membahayakan hingga menyebabkan kematian penumpang.
Dalam kemalangan di Lebuh Raya Utara Selatan dekat Rawang Isnin lepas, enam penumpang maut selepas bas ekspres dua tingkat yang dipercayai dipandu laju terbabas dan terbalik sementara dalam kemalangan di Kilometer 16, Jalan Kluang-Batu Pahat, Johor kelmarin, seorang wanita dan dua anak perempuannya berusia tiga dan enam tahun maut.

Sumber: Utusan Malaysia. 18 April.
 

Ubat untuk masalah ekonomi

Manusia mengejar kekayaan tanpa ingat akan halal dan haram. Kini bila di landa masalah mereka masih tercari-cari ubat yang sesuai...

Statistik Kemalangan Maut di pelbagai sektor industry

Graph ini hasilkan berdasarkan statistik kemalangan tahun 2007 dan 2008 yang di keluarkan oleh JKKP Malaysia.

6 die, 5 injured in express bus crash

RAWANG: Five passengers and the driver of a double-decker express bus died and five injured after the bus skidded, hit the divider and toppled at Km443 of the North-South Expressway near Rawang Monday morning.

Police said the accident occurred at about 5.30am after the double-decker bus, carrying 34 passengers from Changlun, Kedah, went out of control.

The wreckage which took authorities about four hours to clear caused a massive crawl heading south from Bukit Beruntung toll plaza in the morning.

The AB Express bus, carrying about 34 passengers, was travelling to Kuala Lumpur from Alor Setar when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle at 5am.

The out-of-control bus skidded against the divider railings causing about 64 metres of the metal railings to break off and spear into the lower deck of the bus before the bus came to a stop beside the road on its side.

The who died at the scene are, Md Zaher Mohamad , 33, C. Magenthiran, 26, Mohamad Fauzi Awang, 57, Muhammad Ismail, 27, Mohd Yusril Zakaria, 27, and driver Zulkhibri Md Saad, 35, but who was resting at the time of the accident.

Magenthiran was the only one not from the lower deck. He was thrown out of the bus. Zulkhibri was decapitated by the metal railings.

Federal traffic police chief Senior Asst Comm II Datuk Abd Aziz Yusof said the co driver, who had been driving at the time of the incident, and two women, one of them seven months pregnant, have been warded at Hospital Sungai Buloh. Two others, who suffered light injuries, went home after outpatient treatment.

“The others were taken to the Gombak police headquarters to have their statements recorded,” he said.

SAC Abd Aziz said initial investigations revealed that the driver, Fauzi Mohammad, 33, had received eight summons previously for speeding while his co-driver, Zulkhibri, had six summons and five arrest warrants under his name for the same offence.

“We are investigating the case as reckless driving leading to death under Section 41 of the Road Transport Act,” he said.

He confirmed this was the worst road accident in the country so far this year.

Sulinda Md Yassin, 31, who is seven months pregnant said she was sleeping on the upper deck of the bus during the incident.

“I heard a loud crash and the entire bus shook violently.

“I was able to get out through the emergency exit with some help from the other passengers,” she said adding she was thankful she survived.

“I had wanted to sit at the lower deck but was force to move up as there was no empty seats left,” she said, when met at the hospital.

source: thestar.com.my By M.KUMAR and STEVEN DANIEL