[00:03.88]This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
[00:08.14]Next week is the one hundredth anniversary
[00:12.12]of the Paris Air Show,
[00:14.02]the biggest in the world.
[00:16.20]It takes place every two years,
[00:19.49]and organizers say
[00:21.63]even with the economic downturn
[00:24.11]they expect a "full house."
[00:26.70]Airbus,Boeing and other manufacturers
[00:31.14]will be there to sell aircraft.
[00:33.53]But observers are not expecting
[00:36.59]any major signs of a recovery
[00:39.19]for the airline industry.
[00:41.18]Industry leaders,
[00:43.68]meeting this week in Malaysia,
[00:45.79]were told that their industry
[00:47.95]faces its most difficult situation ever.
[00:51.68]Airlines are worried
[00:54.47]not just about the recession
[00:56.30]but also about higher oil prices.
[00:59.87]And now comes the new H1N1 flu virus.
[01:05.15]The World Health Organization
[01:08.00]this week declared the first pandemic,
[01:11.10]or worldwide spread,
[01:13.23]of influenza in forty-one years.
[01:16.99]But countries are being urged
[01:19.77]not to restrict travel.
[01:21.82]The air show also follows the crash last week
[01:26.80]of an Air France jet
[01:28.74]in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
[01:31.51]All two hundred twenty-eight people
[01:34.65]on the flight from Rio de Janeiro
[01:37.26]to Paris were killed.
[01:39.14]Before the flight went down,
[01:42.30]sensors gave conflicting information
[01:45.46]on air speed to the plane's computers,
[01:48.45]possibly because of ice.
[01:50.79]Such problems had led Air France
[01:54.75]to begin replacing older sensors
[01:57.55]on some of its Airbus planes,
[02:00.37]but not the one that crashed.
[02:02.56]Air France is now moving quickly
[02:05.98]to put in newer versions of the speed sensors.
[02:09.51]But the cause of the crash
[02:11.63]is still under investigation.
[02:13.91]Bodies and wreckage have been found
[02:17.68]over a wide area.
[02:19.39]The plane hit storms before the crash.
[02:22.91]Incorrect air speed readings
[02:26.23]could have led the pilots to fly so fast
[02:29.75]that the plane broke apart.
[02:31.86]Wrong data can also cause pilots
[02:35.87]to fly too slow and lose lift.
[02:39.29]In the United States,
[02:42.12]officials are investigating
[02:44.25]a different safety issue
[02:46.30]the safety of regional airlines.
[02:49.26]These smaller carriers now operate
[02:52.82]about half the airline flights
[02:55.32]within the United States.
[02:57.11]They carry one in four passengers.
[03:00.53]They have grown as major airlines
[03:04.69]have cut or changed their service.
[03:07.44]In fact,
[03:09.28]the big airlines often save money
[03:12.11]by using smaller ones to carry passengers.
[03:15.94]The pilots are paid less,
[03:18.94]and there are questions
[03:20.92]about whether they get enough training or rest.
[03:24.67]The Federal Aviation Administration
[03:28.04]plans an industry safety meeting next week.
[03:31.50]And new legislation could be coming.
[03:34.64]Congress is holding hearings into a crash
[03:38.96]in February near Buffalo,New York.
[03:42.24]The flight was operated
[03:44.77]for Continental Airlines
[03:46.87]by another company,Colgan Air.
[03:49.82]Fifty people died.
[03:52.26]Deadly airline crashes are increasingly rare.
[03:56.85]But regional carriers have had four
[04:00.09]in the last five years,
[04:02.30]while major airlines have had one.
[04:05.57]Transportation safety investigators
[04:09.79]held hearings this week into an accident
[04:12.78]that involved a major airline.
[04:15.21]Everyone survived the water landing
[04:19.06]of a US Airways jet
[04:21.37]on the Hudson River in New York in January.
[04:24.91]Birds disabled both engines.
[04:28.44]At the hearings,
[04:30.34]one of the subjects discussed
[04:32.54]was the increase in populations of large birds
[04:36.25]in North America
[04:37.48]that could threaten other planes.
[04:40.19]And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English,
[04:45.26]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:47.42]I'm Mario Ritter.
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