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Boeing’s biggest worry: who’ll want to fly in a 737 Max? [Subscription]
The American giant is in the worst crisis faced by any modern aircraft maker
Robo-taxis will drive Tesla riches, claims Elon Musk [Subscription]
Elon Musk has told investors that Tesla will be worth $500bn thanks to a bet on “transformative” driverless technology that could turn its cars into a fleet of robo-taxis.
NTSB launches investigation into 'miracle' Boeing 737 river landing after jet slid off runway - but at least four pets stored in the hold are presumed dead
Federal investigators have retrieved the flight data recorder to investigate why a chartered jet ran off a military base runway and into the St Johns River in Florida Friday night.
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- Where can electric scooters be ridden in the UK?What are the rules on electric scooters on roads, cycle lanes and pavements?
The Independent
- Tour de Yorkshire 2019 result: Marianne Vos wins women's race as Ineos's Chris Lawless is pipped on lineThe Dutch great had too much strength and nous for her rivals in fierce Scarborough weather
Times Online
- Brian Carey: airport noise bill lost amid the loud ambition [Subscription]Pity poor Dalton Philips, chief executive of DAA, the airports authority. He is fretting over the tortuous passage of the Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018 through
- 25m lost bags mean it’s not yet case closed [Subscription]When it came to lost luggage, I didn’t really have any baggage. Well, not until 2012, anyway. That’s when my luck ran out. Over the next seven years, a rucksack failed to show up in Lima, a camera box vanished en route to Harare and, in Bhopal, a porter made me tea as I waited beside an empty carousel for baggage that never came. Johannesburg airport has mislaid my luggage three times and, in Namibia, my bag followed me around the country for a fortnight.
- Crossrail: we’re committed to being transparent [Subscription]The trains are not the biggest barrier to the opening of the Elizabeth line, but are one of several barriers, including finishing the tunnels and stations and integrating the signalling and railway systems (“Whoops, TfL did it again”, Agenda, last week).
- Boeing’s biggest worry: who’ll want to fly in a 737 Max? [Subscription]The American giant is in the worst crisis faced by any modern aircraft maker
- All roads lead to Uber [Subscription]The ride-hailing app could yet come a cropper as cities fight back, reports John Collingridge
- Robo-taxis will drive Tesla riches, claims Elon Musk [Subscription]Elon Musk has told investors that Tesla will be worth $500bn thanks to a bet on “transformative” driverless technology that could turn its cars into a fleet of robo-taxis.
Mail Online
- NTSB launches investigation into 'miracle' Boeing 737 river landing after jet slid off runway - but at least four pets stored in the hold are presumed deadFederal investigators have retrieved the flight data recorder to investigate why a chartered jet ran off a military base runway and into the St Johns River in Florida Friday night.
- Why the menopause is making women scared to drive: Crisis of confidence turning motorists from seasoned road-users to a gibbering wreck behind the wheelAs she nudged her car towards the roundabout, Martina Phelan suddenly felt her whole body start to shake. Despite the line of traffic bunching up behind her, she felt incapable of moving forward. Knuckles gripped tightly on the wheel, she tried desperately to ignore the chorus of horns shrieking disapproval.
- Furious father says his daughter, 15, was told to 'get off the f****** bus' by a driver who refused to let her pay child fare - even though she showed her PASSPORT as proof of ageA father claims his daughter was 'abandoned' at the side of the road by a bus driver at 11pm after he refused to let her pay a child fare because her passport was 'not valid proof of age'.
London Evening Standard
- Boeing 737 skids off runway into river in Florida with 143 people on boardA passenger plane carrying 143 people slid off a runway in Florida, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.
Wales Online
- Fears of traffic chaos when new Aldi opens off Western Avenue in CardiffThe new Aldi store will be close to the Tesco Extra off the A48, Western Avenue, at Excelsior Industrial Estate, which is already busy at peak times
North Wales Live
- Inside story on Airbus A380 wing's 'race against time'Television series on how the superjumbo wing makes its first ever journey
- Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza and Transport Festival gets under way - here's all the action so farThousands descended on the town centre as the event, now in its 33rd year, began
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