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Next Gen Cargo Transportation

  Zipline International Inc.  is an American company that designs, manufactures, and operates  delivery drones . The company operates distribution centers in  Rwanda ,  Ghana , Japan,  the United States, and  Nigeria , with signed agreements to begin service in  Cote d'Ivoire  and  Kenya .  As of May 2023, its drones have made more than 600,000 commercial deliveries and flown more than 40 million autonomous miles. The company's drones deliver whole blood, platelets, frozen plasma, and cryoprecipitate along with medical products, including vaccines, infusions, and common medical commodities. As of September 2021, more than 75 percent of blood deliveries in Rwanda outside of Kigali use Zipline drones. In April 2019 in Ghana, the company began using drones to deliver vaccines, blood, and medicines. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US Federal Aviation Administr...
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Birth of CRM procedures in US Aviation

Birth of CRM procedures in US Aviation  On Dec. 28, 1978 United Airlines Flight 173 scheduled to fly from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, with a scheduled stop in Denver, Colorado, ran out of fuel while troubleshooting a landing gear problem and crashed in a suburban Portland neighborhood near NE 157th Avenue and East Burnside Street, killing 10 on board.   As the plane, a Douglas DC-8 60 series registered N8082U was approaching Portland airport in Oregon, there was landing gear problem in which the crew members in the cockpit couldn’t determine if the right main landing gear had come down properly. So they decided to fly a holding pattern near the airport to make sure the landing gear was in the correct position. ‘After about an hour in the hold, the plane was burning a lot of fuel and was getting dangerously low.  The flight engineer was giving hints to the captain that the plane was...
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