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• American extends Max 8 flight cancellations into August, joining Southwest
• World's largest plane makes first flight over California
• Five years after Boko Haram kidnap, 112 Chibok girls still missing

American extends Max 8 flight cancellations into August, joining Southwest Posted: 14 Apr 2019 08:32 AM PDT The move will take 115 daily summer flights out of its schedule. Affected passengers will be notified in advance. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

World's largest plane makes first flight over California Posted: 14 Apr 2019 02:28 AM PDT The world's largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market. The white airplane called Roc, which has a wingspan the length of an American football field and is powered by six engines on a twin fuselage, took to the air shortly before 7 a.m. Pacific time (1400 GMT) and stayed aloft for more than two hours before landing safely back at the Mojave Air and Space Port as a crowd of hundreds of people cheered. "What a fantastic first flight," Stratolaunch Chief Executive Officer Jean Floyd said in a statement posted to the company's website.

Five years after Boko Haram kidnap, 112 Chibok girls still missing Posted: 13 Apr 2019 08:28 PM PDT Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped five years ago by Boko Haram jihadists in northeastern Nigeria. The kidnap had caused the family such suffering and sadness it feels as if they were all abducted, Hauwa's mother told AFP. On April 14, 2014, gunmen stormed the Chibok girls' boarding school, kidnapping 276 pupils aged 12-17, 57 of whom managed to escape by jumping from the trucks. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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