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News Making International Headlines: 10 December 2021

60-Year Old Woman Dies Inside her Submerged Car


PHOTO: ATTEMPTED RESCUE OF SUBMERGED CAR

INTERNATIONAL: Help came too late for a woman who died on Wednesday after her car was submerged steps away from Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canada border and a dramatic rescue came up short. Rescue workers arrived at the scene at around noon to lift a woman out of her car after it wound up in the Niagara River, some 150 feet before the brink.

A member of the Coast Guard Swift Water Rescue Team was lowered from a helicopter to the car but found the woman already dead inside her car.The area was experiencing typical November weather of freezing temperatures and precipitation.Local police were seen beforehand calling in a drone to survey the scene before the U.S. Coast Guard took over the rescue.The woman was in her 60's.

At Least 54 People Die After Truck Flipped Over in Southern Mexico


PHOTO: FIRE FIGHTERS, POLICE AND PARAMEDICS WORKING AT CRASH SITE, VICTIMS CORPSES COVERED BY SHEETS ON THE ROAD, SOUNDBITE FROM CHIAPAS FIRE BRIGADE CHIEF

At least 53 mostly Central Americans were killed on Thursday when the truck they were in flipped over in southern Mexico, in one of the worst accidents to befall migrants risking their lives to reach the United States.

According to video footage of the aftermath and civil protection authorities, the trailer broke open and spilled out migrants when the truck crashed on a sharp curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in the state of Chiapas.The Attorney General's office put the death toll at 53.

A Guatemalan man who witnessed the incident was shocked saying that it took a bend, and because of the weight of us people inside, they all went with it.He said the trailer couldn't handle the weight of people.

Authorities said several dozen people were injured and taken to hospitals in Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. More than 100 people were traveling inside the trailer.The Chiapas state government said men, women and children were among the dead. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Twitter expressed his sorrow at the "very painful" incident.

Migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Central America typically trek through Mexico to reach the U.S. border, and sometimes cram into large trucks organized by smugglers in extremely dangerous conditions.A spokesman for Guatemala's presidency Kevin Lopez says this shows that irregular migration is not the best way .

The accident occurred when a large trailer overturned on a dangerous curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, said Luis Manuel Garcia, head of the Chiapas civil protection agency.The accident also gravely injured dozens people, who were taken to hospitals in the area. Chief of Chiapas fire brigade, Marco Antonio Sanchez has confirmed that some of the victims were from Honduras.

Swedish Company Develops World’s First Commercially-Available Flying Car


PHOTO: PROMOTIONAL VIDEO SHOWING JETSON ONE AERIAL VEHICLE FLYING OVER DESERT LANDSCAPE INTERVIEWS WITH JETSON AERO FOUNDERS TALKING ABOUT HOW JETSON ONE WORKS AND THE FUTURE JETSON ONE ON DISPLAY

Swedish company Jetson Aero has built what it says is the first commercially available personal electric aerial vehicle and hopes that in the future it will be able to replace traditional cars as a means of transport.

Jetson Aero has claimed to have developed the world's first commercially-available flying car. It’s a bit Formula 1 car experience. The Jetson One is a vertical take-off and landing vehicle for one person that the company says takes five minutes to learn how to fly. It has four horizontally mounted propellers, one at each corner of the vehicle, like a small civilian radio-controlled drone.Flying is simple and easy. It feels a bit like a magic carpet and it induces this profound, almost ecstatic feeling of experiencing flight.

With the current battery technology available is about 20 minutes flight.So, one can fly around for 20 minutes and then you have to return to base and recharge it.

Jetson Aero founder Tomasz Patan says he aims that in 10 years from now, to substitute cars and to have maybe a product like flying car.He has added that there's an entire legal framework that needs to be changed for this. It is just a very small step where the company is aiming at letting the user have a lot of fun.

Jetson Aero’s chief technical officer has explained that the vehicle's flight control system was a fly-by-wire system which means it uses computers to process the flight control inputs.The aluminum and carbon fibre, eight-engine 'flying car', sells for $92,000 and can reach a top speed of 102 kilometres per hour and run for 18 minutes. So far, they have sold around 150 units, 80% to the United States.


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