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Germanwings crash: Black box ‘has usable data’
Paris: French investigators said that the usable data has been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of the Germanwings flight 4U 9525 which crashed on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, media reported on Thursday.
Flight 4U9525, an Airbus A320 jet operated by Germanwings, the budget carrier of Germany’s Lufthansa airlines, crashed in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the French Alps, killing all 150 on board — 144 passengers and six crew members.
Remi Jouty, the director of the French aviation investigative agency. said there were sounds and voices on the cockpit voice recorder but that it was too early to draw any conclusions, BBC reported.
The cockpit voice recorder was retrieved on Tuesday and the search for the second black box – flight data recorder, is still on.
He said he hoped investigators would have the “first rough ideas in a matter of days” but that the full analysis could take weeks or even months.
Jouty said the plane’s last communication was a routine one with air traffic control.
The investigators have said that the plane hit the ground in the French Alps at great velocity, suggesting no explosion in flight and it crashed after an eight-minute rapid descent.
Jouty said controllers observed the plane beginning to descend and tried to get back in contact with the pilots but without success.
He ruled out an explosion, saying: “The plane was flying right to the end.”
According to a New York Times report, an unnamed investigator said that one of the pilots had left the cockpit and had been unable to get back in.
“You can hear he is trying to smash the door down,” the investigator adds, describing audio from the recorder.
Germanwings chief Thomas Winkelmann said 72 of the 144 passengers were German citizens.
The victims included 16 pupils returning from an exchange trip. Spain government said 51 of the dead were Spanish.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed that three Britons were on board.
Other victims were from Australia, Argentina, Iran, Venezuela, the US, the Netherlands, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Denmark and Israel.
On Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited the crash site.
Lufthansa will operate two flights on Thursday to take relatives to France.
However, a bus with 14 relatives of Spanish victims left Barcelona on Wednesday for the crash area, because they did not want to fly.
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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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