Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against Principalities and Powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. Ephesians 6:12
Jetstar Dreamliner Forced To Melbourne After Pilots Noticed A Crack Appearing In The Windshield
A Jetstar flight bound for Bali was forced to turn around and head to Melbourne after pilots noticed a crack appearing in the windshield. The Boeing 787-10 (reg. VH-VKE) took off from Sydney International Airport just before 5pm on Wednesday and was flying over the Northern Territory when the mid-air emergency unfolded. A spokeswoman said the pilots saw a crack in one of the windows in the cockpit three hours into the seven-hour trip. The structural integrity of the plane wasn’t compromised, but the flight was re-routed because ‘safety is a priority’, Jetstar said. The plane safely landed at Melbourne airport. Passengers were provided with overnight accommodation and alternative flights were organised.Source
United #UA22 turned around over Atlantic after a pilot suffered chest pains
United flight #UA22 from Dublin to New York Newark was forced to turn around over Atlantic after a medical emergency affecting a pilot. The Boeing 787-10 (reg. N12006) turned around after 1h30 into flight and diverted to Shannon after one of the pilot suffered chest pains. Two other pilots on board managed to land the plane safely at 11.30 UTC in Shannon. Few Doctors on board the flight were able to help with the medical emergency. Source
Thomas Cook declares bankruptcy and ceases flight operations with immediate effect
Travel giant Thomas Cook has ceased trading after failing to secure a last-ditch rescue deal, leaving an estimated 150,000 Britons abroad awaiting repatriation.
Thomas Cook’s chief executive Peter Fankhauser told reporters: “This is a statement I hoped I would never have to make: “Following a decision by the board late last night, the UK Government’s official receiver was appointed in the early hours of this morning, the 23rd of September, to take control of Thomas Cook. The UK Civil Aviation Authority is giving go-ahead to position to UK for rescue flights which will bring stranded passengers back.
The government’s plan to repatriate 150,000 British holidaymakers. Ministers have chartered dozens of aircraft as they plan the UK’s biggest repatriation since WWII.
Last flight was #MT2643 landing at Manchester Airport from Orlando.
The group operates a fleet of 85 Airbus jets and 31 Boeing jets, or a total of 116 aircraft based across Europe, according to data from UK-based aviation consultancy IBA. Source
French airline XL Airways suspends flight operations
The French airline XL Airways suspends its flight operations from 3:00pm today October 3 included.
“In connection with the French civil aviation authorities, in great economic difficulty, XL Airways is unfortunately obliged to suspend all flights” , justifies the company on its website.
The company made this choice pending Wednesday, a decision of the Commercial Court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) on a possible recovery. “The company XL Airways presents to all of its customers its sincerest apologies,” the statement concluded. Source
Azur Air Boeing 767-300 evacuated due to main gear fire on landing
Azur Air Boeing flight #ZF2244 experienced a gear fire on landing. Azur Air Boeing 767-300 (reg. VP-BUV) experienced a fire on right main gear after landing at Barnaul Airport in Russia. The flight #ZF2244 from Nha Trang (Vietnam) was evacuated on the taxiway via emergency slides. 341 people were on board, including 10 crew members. Emergency services responded and extinguished the fire. No injuries are being reported. The airline has launched a probe into the incident in collaboration with the aviation authorities, the aircraft manufacturer and the airport. Source
BREAKING Left engine cowling of United Airlines Boeing 737-800 opened in flight
A United Airlines flight departing Denver Sunday returned to DIA following a mechanical issue with an engine. United Airlines flight #UA292 departed Denver International Airport around 7:50 a.m. for Orlando when the engine issue forced the crew to return and land about an hour later. Video shared by passenger Bobby Lewis showed the left engine cowling opened and bent in the airstream. Source
The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her. Dan.7
FIRST BEAST LIONESS WITH WINGS OF AN EAGLE = THE AIRLINE AND SPACE INDUSTRIES
1. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her....
Here is my take on the Four Beasts:
The Four beasts of Daniel are:
FIRST BEAST LIONESS WITH WINGS OF AN EAGLE = THE AIRLINE AND SPACE INDUSTRIES
1. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was given to her
SECOND BEAST BEAR = SOCIAL MEDIA (facebook twitter etc...)
2. And behold another beast like a bear stood up on one side: and there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.
THIRD BEAST LEOPARD = NATIONALISM OF THE FORERUNNER TO THE ANTICHRIST (HE WHO MURDERS THE FATIMA POPE WITH AN ARMY MADE UP OF MANY NATIONS)
3. After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had upon it four wings as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power was given to it.
FOURTH BEAST = THE ANTICHRIST (THIS IS CHURCH DOCTRINE AS ALL FATHERS TESTIFY)
4. After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with its feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.
All four beast are different from one another - the third and fourth beasts are political in nature but different - the third being man-made nationalistic political authority and the fourth being man-made universal political authority.
I think this is in line with what the Church Fathers would say.
Top NASA Manager Says the 2024 Moon Landing by Astronauts might not Happen
Speaking before a Congressional subcommittee on Wednesday, 18 September 2019, Kenneth Bowersox, Acting Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, said NASA is doing everything in its power to meet the deadline set by the White House, but admitted that it might be too short.
“What’s important is that we launch when we’re ready, that we have a successful mission when it launches, and I’m not going to sit here and tell you that just arbitrarily we’re going to make it,” said Bowersox during the meeting. “There’s a lot of risk in making the date, but we want to try to do it.”
The initial plan was to launch the lunar mission – called Artemis after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology – in 2028, but the deadline was eventually moved to 2024 at the urging of the Trump administration.
According to one of the mission’s greatest enthusiasts – the NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, the agency does not have any ground-breaking goals, but wants to engage the Moon as a critical training ground for the greatly anticipated future expeditions to Mars.
Bowersox expressed his appreciation for the goal’s aggressiveness, but emphasised that it might not be viable due to the need to secure funding and solve a whole plethora of technical issues.Source
Belgian fighter jet crashes in France, one stuck on high-tension wire
A Belgian Air Force combat jet crashed into a field in France on Thursday, with one of the plane’s occupants reportedly stuck on a high-tension wire.
The F-16 was carrying out a military exercise when it crashed into a field in Pluvigner, near the Morbihan gulf in northwestern France, according to the Belga news agency.
Both pilots managed to safely eject themselves out of the aircraft as it crashed, but one of them landed on a high-tension wire, according to reports.
Notified of the incident at around 10:30 AM, emergency response teams and the French national guard rushed to the scene of the crash, from which a large cloud of black smoke could be seen from a distance. Local media reports initially said that one of the military officers was presumed to have died after landing on the power lines, but he is now reported as injured, with emergency services working to release him from the high-tension wire.
The second officer is being treated for injuries, and inhabitants of a house near the site of the crash have been evacuated.
The Belgian defence ministry confirmed the crash in a statement obtained by Belga, and French authorities have launched a crisis management mechanism as a result of the incident. Source
Former NASCAR legend Michael Stefanik, 61, is killed in a single-engine plane crash along the Rhode Island-Connecticut border after 'initially walking away from the wreck'
Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash along the Rhode Island-Connecticut border. He was 61.
Connecticut State Police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. The exact cause is still under investigation.
Police say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it crashed into a wooded area near the airport.
NASCAR confirmed that Stefanik was killed in the accident.Source
Finnair flight #AY1571 made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff due to the death of a passenger.
A Finnair Airbus A319 was forced to make an emergency landing in the Finnish city of Turku due to the death of a passenger on board.
The flight #AY1571 was heading to Paris CDG when it diverted only 30 minutes after takeoff from Helsinki The airline’s press service says the plane made an unplanned landing in Turku because of a sick passenger.
According to a police in Southwest Finland, there is a report of a deceased passenger aboard Finnair. Police teams arrived at Turku Airport.
An investigation into the causes of death is ongoing.
The plane resumed the flight to Paris.
Cayman Airways flight #KX792 to JFK evacuated after an emergency landing in Orlando
The captain of a Cayman Airways flight bound for New York City was forced to make an emergency landing in Orlando on Sunday afternoon after smoke was detected in one of the jet’s cargo holds.
According to a news release from Cayman Airways, flight KX792 from Grand Cayman to JFK International Airport was diverted to Orlando International Airport “following a smoke indication in one of its cargo holds”. Flight KX792 departed Grand Cayman at 3:30 p.m. for New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport before diverting to Orlando International Airport, where it landed at 6:17 p.m., after a smoke indicator light came on showing smoke in one of the cargo holds.
The jet deployed emergency slides on the runway “with the uncertainty of what was causing the indication,” according to Cayman Airways.
Cayman Airways said there is no evidence there was actually ever smoke in the cargo hold.
There were 103 passengers and five crew members on board. Source
The darksome atmosphere is as a prison to the demons until the judgment day. They carry fire of hell with them wherever they go. The devils besought the Lord not to cast them into the abyss; for they asked for this, deeming it to be a punishment for them to be cast out of a place where they could injure men. Hence it is stated,They besought Him that He would not expel them out of the country. St Thomas Aquinas
Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against Principalities and Powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. Ephesians 6:12
The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon
The moon is all the rage these days. China wants to send people there. So too does the United States and NASA. In fact, just about every country with a space program has some sort of lunar ambition that they hope will play out over the next few years. Now, there’s a new entrant in this new space race, a nonprofit organization called the Open Lunar Foundation. Based in San Francisco, it’s a group made up of tech executives and engineers—many of them with former ties to NASA—who have serious ambitions to create a lunar settlement. The driving ethos behind the foundation is to start a development that would not be beholden to a particular country or billionaire. Instead, as the group’s name suggests, Open Lunar wants to create technology for exploring and living on the moon as a type of collaborative effort. “Our highest ambition is catalyzing and enabling a peaceful and cooperative lunar settlement,” said Chelsea Robinson, the chief of operations and staff for Open Lunar. “At this time when there are so many commercial and government actors advancing their efforts on the moon, we are excited to demonstrate a civic approach to participation.” Source
Colonizing the Moon is no different than Nimrod's Tower of Babel
And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries Gen.viii.i-ix.
Josephus tells us about the pride of Nimrod:
Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach! and that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers!
Job warns us of folly of pride:
If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds: In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
God came down and paid Nimrod a visit.....
Reasons Why Men Will NEVER Populate Outer Space Taken From St. Thomas Aquinas
China Eastern A320neo made an emergency landing after a power bank caught fire
China Eastern flight #MU2809 to Xiamen returned to Nanjing for an emergency landing after a power bank caught fire. The power bank of a passenger caught fire causing smoke and heat resulting in cabin damage of the Airbus A320neo (reg. B-306F). Source
All 9 aboard medical evac plane killed in Philippines crash
All nine people on board a small medical evacuation plane were killed Sunday when the aircraft crashed into a resort area south of the Philippine capital and exploded in flames, officials said.
The light plane crashed into a resort compound in Pansol village in Laguna province near the foothills of Mount Makiling. Police and rescuers retrieved nine bodies from the wreckage, police said. Two people on the ground were injured and brought to a hospital. Eric Apolonio, a spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said the light plane was on a medical evacuation flight from southern Dipolog city in Zamboanga del Norte province and disappeared from radar for unknown reasons as it flew over Laguna, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the capital.
The plane was supposed to land in Manila. Source
Wednesday, 4 September 2019 Mozambique (GMT +2): Rome-Maputo
- 8 AM: Departure from Rome’s Fiumicino airport
- 6:30 PM: Welcome ceremony upon arrival at Maputo airport
Thursday, 5 September Mozambique: Maputo
- 9:45 AM: Courtesy visit to the president at the Palacio da Ponta Vermelha
- 10:15 AM: Meeting with authorities, leaders of civil society, and the diplomatic corps at the Palacio da Ponta Vermelha (Speech by the Pope)
- 11 AM: Interreligious meeting with young people at the Maxaquene Pavilion. (Speech by the Pope)
- Lunch at the Apostolic Nunciature
- 4:15 PM: Meeting with bishops, priests, religious, seminarians and catechists at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Speech by the Pope)
Friday, 6 September Madagascar: Maputo-Antananarivo
- 8:45 AM: Visit to Zimpeto Hospital near Maputo (Greeting by the Pope)
- 10 AM: Mass in Zimpeto Stadium (Homily by the Pope)
- 12:25 PM: Farewell ceremony at Maputo airport
-12:40 PM: Departure from Maputo for Antananarivo, Madagascar
- 4:30 PM: Arrival ceremony at Antananarivo airport
Saturday, 7 September Madagascar (GMT +3): Antananarivo
- 9:30 AM: Courtesy visit to the president in the Iavoloha Palace
- 10:15 AM: Meeting with government authorities, leaders of civil society, and the diplomatic corps in the Ceremony Building (Speech by the Pope)
- 11:15 AM: Recitation of midday prayer in the Discalced Carmelite monastery (Homily by the Pope)
Tuesday, 10 September Madagascar: Antananarivo - Rome
- 9 AM: Farewell ceremony at the Antananarivo airport
- 9:20 AM: Departure for Rome
- 7 PM: Arrival at Rome’s Ciampino airport
- Lunch in the Apostolic Nunciature
- 4 PM: Meeting with the bishops of Madagascar in the Andohalo Cathedral (Speech by the Pope)
- 5:10 PM: Visit to the tomb of Blessed Victoire Rasoamanarivo.
- 6 PM: Vigil with young people at the Soamandrakizay diocesan field (Speech by the Pope)
Sunday, 8 September Madagascar: Antananarivo
- 10 AM: Mass at the Soamandrakizay diocesan field (Homily by the Pope)
- Lunch with the papal entourage at the Nunciature
- 3:10 PM: Visit to the Akamasoa “Community of Good Friends” (Greeting by the Pope)
- 4 PM: Prayer for workers at the Mahatzana building site (Prayer by the Pope)
- 5:10 PM: Meeting with priests, religious, and seminarians in the College of St. Michael (Speech by the Pope)
Monday, 9 September Madagascar: Antananarivo - Port Louis, Mauritius (GMT +4) - Antananarivo
- 7:30 AM: Departure by airplane for Port Louis
- 10:40 AM: Arrival ceremony at the Port Louis airport
- 12:15 PM: Mass at the monument to Mary, Queen of Peace (Homily by the Pope)
- Lunch with members of the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean.
- 4:25 PM: Private visit to the Shrine of Blessed Jacques-Desire Laval, the “apostle of Mauritus”
- 4:55 PM: Courtesy visit with the president in the presidential palace
- 5:15 PM: Meeting with the prime minister in the presidential palace
- 5:40 PM: Meeting with government authorities, leaders of civil society, and the diplomatic corps in the presidential palace (Speech by the Pope)
- 6:45 PM: Farewell ceremony at the Port Louis airport
