That’s a record! London Heathrow just experienced its highest barometric pressure in more than 300 years of recordkeeping!

According to UK climatology expert Stephen Burt (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading), the mean sea level barometric pressure at Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 mb (30.99”) at midnight GMT Sunday night (7 p.m. EST). Not only is this a record for Heathrow, beating 1047.3 mb from February 7, 1964, but it’s also the highest barometric…

Crashed Ukrainian Boeing 737’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to be sent to France

  The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR)  of the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800, which crashed on the outskirt of Tehran on Wednesday, will be downloaded in France, head of the accident investigation board of Civil Aviation Organization of Iran announced on Saturday. Hassan Rezaeifar said although Iran made use of all its facilities to…