#Irma: St. John in the Virgin Islands 80% of structures had been extensively damaged

Residents on St. John in the Virgin Islands estimated that 80 percent of the structures had been extensively damaged https://t.co/wwvdVbpzl9

— NYT National News (@NYTNational) September 12, 2017

Eight injured as car hits crowd outside Amsterdam station

Dutch police arrest a man after his car strikes a crowd outside Amsterdam’s central station before crashing into a wall.

A car ploughed into a crowd outside Amsterdam central station late Saturday, injuring eight people – two of them seriously, Dutch police said, adding it appeared to have been an accident.

“The suspect has been interviewed, and it appears not to have been intentional. But we are investigating further,” Amsterdam police said on their Twitter account.

Eight people had been hurt, “two of them seriously,” the police said in a tweet, adding the driver was under arrest after his car hit the crowd and then crashed into a wall.

The news came a week after three attackers in a van mowed down pedestrians in London before going on a stabbing spree, killing eight people and injuring 48.

Dutch media reported the Amsterdam incident happened when police approached a black Peugeot which was badly parked, and the driver tried to speed away.

Source: Eight injured as car hits crowd outside Amsterdam station | SBS News

Pippa Middleton and James Matthews scale Sydney Harbour Bridge in full overalls in daring honeymoon activity

NEWLYWEDS Pippa Middleton and James Matthews have been pictured scaling Syndey Harbour Bridge as their Australian honeymoon continues. The pair, who tied the knot this month at St Mark’s Church in …

Earlier in the day the couple were spotted looking “very much in love”.

Pippa, wearing a knee-length black and white stripy dress and black cardigan, and her financier husband waved to passers-by as they took in the sights before boarding a water taxi.

An onlooker told news.com.au: “They looked very much in love and kept giving each other loving glances even whilst talking to friends.”

MORE: Pippa Middleton and new hubby James Matthews scale Sydney Harbour Bridge in full overalls in daring honeymoon activity

Pilot breaks silence: QF72 computers BROKE DOWN – sending the aircraft nosediving towards the Indian Ocean with 303 passengers on board

The captain of Qantas Flight 72 has opened up for the first time about the day the automation of a plane he was in charge of ‘went psycho’ and repeatedly nose-dived towards the Indian Ocean.

More than 100 people were injured when the pilots of the flight, carrying 303 passengers and 12 crew members from Singapore to Perth, lost control of the aircraft on October 7, 2008.

The Airbus A330 had been cruising at 37,000 feet when the autopilot disengaged automatically.

It nosedived twice before pilot Kevin Sullivan declared a mayday and made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near Exmouth, Western Australia, around 50 minutes after the first descent.

Now, eight years later, Mr Sullivan has broken his silence on the incident that changed his life and left him with post-traumatic stress disorder.

‘It’s the worst thing that can happen when you are in an aeroplane – when you are not in control,’ he told Good Weekend.

‘And you have a choice. You can either succumb to that or you fight it. I was fighting that outcome and I have been ever since.’

Mr Sullivan is a former US Navy pilot who later joined the famous Top Gun school. He was the first US Navy exchange pilot to join the RAAF in 1983.

He only intended to be in Australia for three years, but after marrying an Australian woman and having a daughter, he decided to stay permanently and became a Qantas pilot.

He was 53 when what he described as a ‘computer crash’ would change the way he viewed the job he loved.

Mr Sullivan was forced to take manual control of the plane when he felt it plunge for the first time at 12.42pm WA time. It went 150 feet down in two seconds.

He remembers wondering if his life was going to end.

Seconds later, he finally felt responses to his control-stick movements and he is able to bring the aeroplane back to 37,000 feet.

But then, the plane dove again – 400 feet in just over 15 seconds.

He and the pilots realise that one of the three flight control primary computers (PRIMs) is faulty.

He was concerned about how he would safely manage an emergency landing, but knew that continuing on to Perth could be even more devastating for the injured.

Mr Sullivan declares a mayday and puts ‘Learmonth Airport’ into the computer for navigation – which shows an error.

At this point, he says he became enraged and started ‘cursing like a drunken sailor.’

But his passengers and crew, including 115 of whom had sustained non-fatal injuries, cheered and clapped when the jet touched down without further incident.

At least 20 passengers and crew aboard the flight were seriously injured – some with spinal injuries and others with broken bones and lacerations.

And when he was finally able to enter the cabin, Mr Sullivan described the scene as looking like ‘the Incredible Hulk had gone through there in a rage and ripped the place apart.’

Three years after the accident, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau found inaccurate data on measures, including airspeed and angle of attack, sent to the plane’s computers.

One of the PRIMs commanded the plane to dive, but investigators could not pinpoint exactly what prompted the incorrect data.

For Mr Sullivan, the incident had life-changing consequences.

He took eight months off, but when he returned to work, he was hyper-alert and worried about losing control.

After three decades at Qantas, he decided to leave last year.

But he still worries about the greater control computers have over flying.

He said that pilots were never given any indication in training that a computer could ‘go completely haywire and try and kill you.’

Source: Pilot of QF72 breaks his silence about 2008 incident | Daily Mail Online

Bannon to be forced out of the White House if he doesn’t become a team player

Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon will reportedly be forced out unless he adopts a more conciliatory approach and plays nice with Jared Kushner.

The ultimatum comes after a hellish week for the top aide who has become increasingly isolated in the White House following his rise to power as a key architect of Trump‘s ‘America First’ policy, a senior official told Axios.

Bannon’s power bubble burst this week when Trump booted him from the National Security Council, his feuds with Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump were made public and it emerged he was against the Syrian airstrikes.

Arguably the two most influential voices in the West Wing, Bannon and Kushner were forced to sit down on Thursday at the Mar-a-Lago estate with chief of staff Reince Priebus.

Trump, increasingly frustrated by the leaks and stories of infighting that keep flowing out of the West Wing, ordered the pair to set aside their growing feud and ‘work this out’.

‘Either Steve becomes a team player and gets along with people, or he’ll be gone,’ a top Trump source told Axios.

There have been numerous reports of late indicating Bannon – who seemingly sees himself as the keeper of campaign promises – is in constant opposition to Kushner, Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

Sources say Bannon and Kushner have locked heads over strategies to pass health care legislation, the fallout of the immigration bans and whether the US should bomb Syria.

Source: Bannon to be forced out if he doesn’t become a team player | Daily Mail Online

#F1 CHINA FOG RED FLAGGED FP1 – No fast times…