WEEK4

TransAsia plane crashes into Taipei river

Li Anne Wong | @LiAnneCNBC

Wednesday, 4 Feb 2015 | 8:01 AM ET


A TransAsia Airways flight with 58 on board, including five crew members, crash landed in a river in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday.

Twenty people have yet to be accounted for and at least 23 people were killed, Reuters said, after the ATR-72 turboprop crashed three minutes after take off at 10:45 a.m. local time. The plane was en route from Taipei's Songshan Airport to the outlying island of Kinmen.

Television footage showed passengers wearing life jackets wading and swimming clear of the river. Emergency rescue officials in inflatable boats crowded around the partially submerged fuselage Flight GE235, lying on its side in the river, trying to help those on board.

About 16 people were rescued, civil aeronautics authorities told a media briefing. Some 31 mainland Chinese tourists were among those on board, Taiwan's tourism bureau said.

Dramatic images captured by motorists have been circulating on Twitter, showing the plane as it impacted the Keelung River.

TransAsia stock fell 7 percent Wednesday, hitting limit-down, on the news. The plane involved in Wednesday's mishap was among the first of the ATR 72-600s, the latest variant of the turboprop aircraft, that TransAsia received in 2014.

The crash is the second for TransAsia in less than a year. Last July, a separate TransAsia domestic flight crashed into buildings as it approached to land in bad weather at the Magong Airport at Penghu Island in Taiwan, killing 48 of the 58 on board.

Asian airlines have been plagued by a string of tragedies in the past year. In December, an AirAsia jet bound for Surabaya to Singapore crashed amid bad weather, killing all 162 people on board. Malaysia Airlines also lost two planes in separate incidents in March and then in July, losing a combined 539 lives.

— Reuters contributed to the story.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102395047

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-people

   WHEN- 4 Feb 2015

   WHAT-plane cash

   WHY-many factors

   WHERE-Taipei

   HOW-plane problems

Keywords：

   1. footage：畫面

   2.circulating  ：流傳

   3. a string of ：一連串

   4. inflatable boats ：充汽艇

   5.Dramatic ：戲劇性的

WEEK3

Paris attacks: Four arrests linked to gunman Coulibaly

9 March 2015 Last updated at 18:30

French police have detained four people over the Islamist attacks in Paris on a satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in which 17 people died.

A woman police officer and three others are believed to have had connections with Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed by police during the supermarket siege.

A suspect named as Amar has been in custody since January on drugs charges.

But investigators have used his phone data to place him not far from the supermarket just before the attack.

They think that Amar, said to have been close to Coulibaly, may have been watching the target.

All four suspects were placed under formal investigation on Monday.

Amar's girlfriend, a convert to Islam, is a policewoman who worked at a police intelligence centre in the Parisian suburbs.

She is believed to have looked at Amar's police file after the January attack and sent it on to him.

She has now been suspended.

Two other people known to Coulibaly are also being questioned by police.

So far, six other people are under judicial investigation under suspicion of providing help to Coulibaly and Said and Cherif Kouachi, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

The French capital was traumatised by the attacks, which began on 7 January when the Kouachi brothers killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Coulibaly shot dead a policewoman in the south of Paris the following day and on 9 January attacked the supermarket, killing four people before police shot him dead.

Police also besieged and killed the two brothers

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31803331

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-people

   WHEN-9 March 2015

   WHAT-attack

   WHY-Religion

   WHERE-Paris

   HOW-attack

Keywords：

   1.  suspend：暫停

   2. Islam：伊斯蘭

   3.  custody：保管

   4.  investigator：研究者

   5.besieged ：圍攻

week2

In Brooklyn, Spotlight Recedes From Site of Fatal Ambush of 2 Officers

By VIVIAN YEEJAN

For years, the stretch of curb outside the back door of Mike’s Pizza, on the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in Brooklyn, belonged, unofficially, to a man known to neighbors as Mr. Wallace. They knew he always parked his Cadillac there to keep his walk home to the Tompkins Houses across the street short.

For a few weeks in December, the gray curb became known beyond New York. It was where a man fatally shot two police officers as they sat in their patrol car on the Saturday before Christmas. It was where a field of bouquets, police patches, teddy bears, candles, holiday wreaths, signs, flags, bunting, menorahs and T-shirts with defiant slogans had flowered. It was an ordinary city corner that found itself the epicenter of an urban tragedy.

About two weeks ago, the Police Department carted the memorial away. It gave some of the tributes to the families of the slain officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, and added others to the memorial at the officers’ station house in Downtown Brooklyn.

The intervening days have sanded down the reminders of what happened at that concrete and metal corner in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the better for the business of living to resume.

The investigators and the out-of-town mourners, the mayor and the grieving families are no longer outside, spilling into the Myrt 99-cent store for fresh candles. They have receded to images on the TV playing Channel 12 in Mike’s Pizza. In recent days, the TV has shown memorials for a more recent tragedy, for the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Those who live and work in the area prefer it that way, the city’s troubles kept at a remove. They are tired of being asked to make sense of a senseless act.

“Whatever happened out there, happened out there,” said Bernadette Cruz, 35, behind the counter at Mike’s one recent afternoon. “It didn’t happen in here.”

And so the traffic light changes. The B54 bus wheezes. People pass, with phones pressed to their ears, with children in tow, with groceries, smoking cigarettes. The doors of the bodega and the Chinese takeout place and the pizza joint swing close, behind successive waves of customers looking for sustenance, or maybe just for a chance to loiter in the warmth: the breakfast crowd, the lunch crowd, the families with little children and the teenagers who come by after school.

Above the bustle, a little, green sign clings to the traffic signal pole: Fallen Officers Way, it read.

Drips of blue, red and yellow wax from spilled candles blacken under a steady march of soles. The brick wall of Mike’s is bare except for a small American flag, taped above the cellar doors.

Just as well, a few of those who live around here say. They do not need a memorial to remember.

“I’ve seen it go from where Mr. Wallace used to park to where two police officers lost their lives for frivolous — I don’t know. This had no meaning,” said Kyson Hawkes, 27, who saw the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, shoot the officers and run away on Dec. 20. “There was no reason.”

Mr. Wallace, once Mr. Hawkes’s neighbor in the Tompkins Houses across the street, is long gone. Now the most regular visitor to the curb is Richard Clifford, 44, of Freeport, N.Y., who delivers mozzarella and flour to Mike’s. He is parking his truck there again, instead of across the street like he had to when police officers blocked off a large swath of sidewalk for the memorial. Part of the street was closed too, until early January, prompting complaints from some residents.

Mr. Clifford’s grandfather was one of two black men killed by a police officer at the Freeport bus terminal in 1946, he said, as he taped a box of flour he had cut open by mistake. “It’s still the same,” he said, “from the ’40s to now.”

But inside the bodegas and the 99-cent store and the pizza joint, the proprietors mostly look away when you ask them about the shots that rang out that Saturday before Christmas, setting aflame tensions between Mayor Bill de Blasio and rank-and-file police officers.

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-people

   WHEN-. 23, 2015

   WHAT-Racial discrimination

   WHY-shot

   WHERE-not given

   HOW-protesters gathered in Midtown Manhattan 

Keywords：

   1.  tributes：物資

   2. concrete：混凝土的

   3. bodega ：酒店

   4. loiter：閒逛

   5. linger：徘迴；縈繞

week1

AirAsia crash: 'Co-pilot was flying plane'

29 January 2015 Last updated at 12:48

The AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December was under the control of its co-pilot when it went down, Indonesian investigators say.

The flight data recorder, retrieved along with the cockpit voice recorder earlier this month, showed Frenchman Remi Plesel was at the controls.

Officials said it was common practice for the co-pilot to take charge.

The plane was carrying 162 people from Surabaya to Singapore when it crashed. So far, 73 bodies have been recovered.

Mardjono Siswosuwarno, head investigator of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSB), said the flight data recorder had provided a "pretty clear picture" of what happened in the flight's last moments.

Capt Plesel was in charge from take-off until the cockpit voice recording ends, he said, adding that this was common practice.

Investigators said the plane ascended sharply before dropping, rising from 32,000ft (9,750m) to 37,400ft within 30 seconds, then dipping back to 32,000ft. The process took about three mMr Mardjono said the plane was "flying before the incident within the limits of its weight and balance envelope" and that the flight crew all had correct licences and medical certificates.

A preliminary report has been submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization, but has not been made public. The full report is likely to take about seven months, said the committee's chief Tatang Kurniadi.

Earlier this week, the military announced it was stopping attempts to retrieve the fuselage from the seabed. Authorities had believed earlier that most of the missing bodies were still in the wreckage but now believe it is empty and too fragile to move.

The civilian National Search and Rescue Agency said on Wednesday that it would continue search operations but their efforts could also end by next week if no more bodies are found.

AirAsia announced on Thursday that a total of 73 bodies have been recovered from the sea. In the past two days, local fishermen found the remains of three bodies believed to be from the crashed airliner.

BBC Indonesian reported that the remains were found some 1,000km from where the plane was last in contact.inutes.

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-people

   WHEN-January 2015

   WHAT-plane crash

   WHY- not given

   WHERE-Indonesia

   HOW-air crash

Keywords：

   1. Co-pilot ：副駕駛

    2. Indonesia：印尼

   3. Java Sea：爪哇海

   4. AirAsia：亞航

   5. preliminary：初步的