{"id":1500,"date":"2010-01-25T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesafe.org\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:13:00","slug":"briefly-jan-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesafe.org\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"Briefly, Jan 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ethiopian Air Flight 409<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, last evening, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 caught fire (from early reports) and crashed shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon.\u00a0 <a title=\"Flight 409\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airsafenews.com\/2010\/01\/ethiopian-airlines-737-800-crashes-near.html\" target=\"_self\">Airsafe.com has a good summary, as of Monday afternoon<\/a>.\u00a0 It appears as though none of the passengers or crew\u00a0survived.\u00a0\u00a0The investigation will be ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Hill This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Further Examination of NW253\" href=\"http:\/\/planesafe.org\/?p=1435\" target=\"_self\">As was the case last week<\/a>,\u00a0congressional committees\u00a0continue to follow up on their understanding of\u00a0the NW253 incident\u00a0on Christmas Day.\u00a0 But also, the confirmation process\u00a0of a nominee to the FAA and the\u00a0reauthorization process of the NTSB will be moving forward.\u00a0 This week (via GovExec), they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee<\/strong> &#8211; Hearing [ 09:30 am, 01\/26\/2010 ]<br \/>\nFull committee hearing on &#8220;Intelligence Reform: The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack,&#8221; focusing on the attempted bombing incident on Flight 253 to Detroit on December 25. 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