06 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2018 world Crashed jet found?

The downed plane went• into service just a few months ago

Lion admitted that• the plane had an unspecified technical issue

Jakarta, Indonesia

he smashed fuselage of a Tcrashed Indonesian Lion Next of kin attempt to identify personal items of loved ones who were on board Air jetliner may have been the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610, at a port in Jakarta found, a top military command- er said yesterday, as Jakarta or- feet) deep in the hope of also crashed into the Java Sea dered the removal of the budget finding flight data recorders off Indonesia’s northern carrier’s technical director and crucial to crash investigations. coast moments after it had staff who cleared the doomed Dozens of divers were taking asked to return to Jakarta on flight for take-off. part in the 1,000-strong per- Monday. Aviation experts say it Authorities said they were sonnel recovery effort along is too early to determine what confident sonar technology with helicopters and ships, but caused the accident. had pinpointed the location of authorities have all but ruled But Lion’s admission that the Boeing 737-MAX plane that out finding any survivors. the plane had an unspecified plunged into the sea on Mon- Boeing officials are expect- technical issue on a previous day. “We strongly believe we’ve ed to meet with Lion Air on flight -- as well as the plane’s determined the coordinates of Wednesday, after Indonesia abrupt nosedive just 12 min- the JT 610 fuselage,” military ordered an inspection of the utes after takeoff -- have raised chief Hadi Tjahjanto told re- US plane maker’s 737-MAX jets. questions about whether it had porters. The downed plane, which any faults specific to the new- Authorities are racing to find went into service just a few ly released model, including the downed jet’s location in wa- months ago, was en route to a speed-and-altitude system ter some 30-40 meters (100-130 Pangkal Pinang city when it malfunction.

France probes baby arm deformations Texan arrested Paris, France

rance has launched a Fnationwide probe into for seeking girl incidents of babies being born with either missing or malformed arms after abnormal rates of deforma- for cannibalism tions were detected in sev- eral regions of the country, it feels to take a life,” Barter’s a top public health official AFP | Miami, United States post read. said yesterday. The officer contacted Barter Francois Bourdillon, Texan has been and made out that head of the Public Health Aarrested after he was a man will- France agency, told RTL advertising online ing to make his un- radio that the probe was that he wanted to derage daughter “underway” and the results try necrophilia and available to him. Indian Air Force helicopters shower rose petals on the “ Of Unity”, the world’s tallest statue dedicated to Indian would be known “in about cannibalism with a “I’m not into independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, overlooking the Sardar Sarovar Dam near Vadodara in ’s western three months.” A relative- young girl. role playing. I Gujarat state ly small number of cases Alexander Bar- want to actual- have been detected so far ter, 21, was arrest- ly rape, kill and -- about 25 over the past 15 ed after an under- cannibalize her,” years in the regions of Brit- cover cop posing as Alexander Barter Barter warned as tany, Loire-Atlantique and a father willing to (Courtesy of Florida he accepted the Morning Post) World’s biggest Ain -- but the defects have offer his daughter man’s offer. caused public alarm and responded to the post on the The officer traveled to Texas AFP | Sardar Sarovar Dam, India have been widely reported dark web, police in Florida to meet Barter, who put up by the French media. said Tuesday. no fight as he was arrested on . So far, no explanation The investigation began October 19. ndia yesterday inaugurated has been found for the when a Brevard County police He even thanked the police the world’s biggest statue deformations despite tests officer noticed a bizarre ad on for preventing him from going Iwhich is a 182 metre (600 on the mothers to see if they the internet. ahead with the plan, because feet) high reproduction of an were exposed to common “I’d like to try necrophilia he said he could not control Indian independence hero. substances. and cannibalism and see how himself, said a statement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially opened the trib- ute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa- tel, with an air force jet flyover, helicopters showering flowers Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) inaugurates the “” Thailand to legalise medical marijuana on the statue and fireworks in more than twice the size of New hope the statue will attract AFP | Bangkok the green, orange and white York’s Statue of Liberty and also 15,000 visitors a day to the re- some of the world’s Asia to do so, tapping “We have submitted national colours.. dwarfs the 128 metre (400 feet) mote corner of Gujarat, which best. into a market that US- the bill to the speak- “Today is a day that will be high Spring Temple Buddha in is about 100 kilometres from hailand is rolling Several nations have based Grand View Re- er,” Jet Sirathraanon, remembered in the history of , the world’s next-biggest the nearest city of Vadodora. Tout plans to legal- embraced the use of search has estimated chairman of the NLA’s India,” said Modi who hailed statue. It is made up of nearly India is also working on a gi- ise medical marijuana, medicinal cannabis, could reach US$55.8 standing committee Sardar Patel’s “strategic think- 100,000 tonnes of concrete and ant statue of 17th-century war- an official said yes - including Canada, Aus- billion by 2025. of public health, said, ing” in bringing together the steel. rior king Chhatrapati Shivaji, terday, as the country tralia, Israel, and more A draft bill to permit adding that it will have disparate country after in - Online booking to visit the riding a horse and brandishing hopes to cash in on a than half the states in its limited use has been its first reading in the dependence in 1947 and the Statue of Unity has opened with a sword, which should dom- multi-billion dollar in- the US. sent to the military jun- junta’s rubber-stamp Statue of Unity as “a symbol a 350 rupee ($4.75) admission inate the Mumbai shoreline dustry with a product But Thailand would ta’s National Legisla- parliament in less than of our engineering and tech- fee for the 153-metre-high ob- from 2021. The current design its supporters hail as be the first country in tive Assembly (NLA). one month. nical prowess.” The statue is servation deck. Authorities would make it 212 metres high.