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A male attempted to choke a Frontier flight attendant and stated the airplane was ‘decreasing,’ authorities state

A male attempted to choke a Frontier flight attendant and stated the airplane was ‘decreasing,’ authorities state

Business
Picture: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)In This StoryA male is dealing with federal charges after apparently choking a Frontier Airlines flight attendant and yelling that a San Francisco-bound aircraft was "decreasing" before threatening to eliminate all the guests on board.Recommended ReadingThe leading 15 cities for start-upsRecommended ReadingCharles Angel Salva, 30, of Fremont, California, was charged with disturbance with flight team members and attendants, the Justice Department stated recently.Salva was jailed Wednesday for the Sept. 9 occurrence on a Frontier flight from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana that was headed to San Francisco International Airport. Soon after departure, Salva supposedly got his hand stuck in an overhead compartment while attempting to take down an oxygen ma...
Giant Bugs and Scorching Wildfires Would Appear if Earth’s Atmosphere Doubled in Mass

Giant Bugs and Scorching Wildfires Would Appear if Earth’s Atmosphere Doubled in Mass

Science and Nature
One-point-two kgs per cubic meter. Why is this number substantial? It's the approximate average density, or mass per volume, of the air at sea level.As you may anticipate, this mass fades in contrast to that of water, which is approximately 800 times denser than the environment above it. In spite of this, air has enough heft to guarantee that high-speed typhoon winds can raise entire homes wipe the ground. And when pressed through a jet engine, it can hold a 640-ton aircraft up-- no mean task for such a light-weight fluid.Earth's climatic density has actually changed considerably throughout its history. Earth had more in typical with Venus, a thick, poisonous hothouse world, billions of years earlier, according to a research study released in Science Advances in 2020. The surface area of o...