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SOME 280 JOBS are to be created this summer at ‘Let’s Go’ sports camp.
Although they are short-term, the camp is accepting applicants from primary, secondary and P.E teachers across the country.
The summer camps cater for children between 5 and 13 years and will take place in July and August.
Now in its 20th year, there are now 126 ‘Let’s Go’ summer camps taking place around the country with an addition of 10 new camps this year in Dublin.
“The camps are a great opportunity for teachers to gain experience and learn activities that they can take back to their schools after the summer,” said Eileen Sheehy, co-founder of Let’s Go.
Terrible, RIP to the staff and passengers on board. Very scary.
as they’ve found the first of the two recorders at least we can hope now to find out why the flight crashed and take steps to prevent a repetition.
This talk of exploding due to pressure (at sea level) seems like BS to me. If anything it may have imploded.. but I doubt the ~ 300mb cabin pressure difference between cruise alt and sea level could do that on its own.
Just leave it at ‘ploded’ so!
The Indonesian Transport Ministry is already disputing the claims this official made and that the damage occured when the aircraft hit the water, not before.
They probably just mean the plane came apart on impact, ie it was intact when it hit the water and did not come apart in the air ruling out midair explosions etc,
Joe, cabin pressurisation in an aircraft doesn’t happen at the flick of switch – meaning, the cabin just doesn’t suddenly go to 10-11psi for crusing altitude the moment the aircraft leaves the ground. It’s a gradual automated process fed by the engine compressors with a safety valve at the rear of the aircraft. As an aircraft rises the air gets thinner and the pressure in the cabin gradually rises to make the air comfortable to breathe. The system works in reverse on descent. So the argument that the aircraft would still be at crusing altitude pressure (even in a rapid descent) at sea level is nonsence. It looks to me like the Director of Search & Rescue cited in the article got his information from salvage crews at the scene, not investigators. The investigation doesn’t begin until parts of the aircraft are forensically examined and the information from the black box recorders is downloaded.
If explosive depressurisation forces occured here (and as yet we don’t know it did), then it happened at altitude, not sea level (due to violent forces acting on the aircraft or hull failure). The limited pictures of debris I’ve seen from the tail are jagged twists and tears consistent with catostrophic impact. Some of the rear windows and surrounds on the tail are still intact. That’s not consistent with massive depressure blast. Compare the tail debris recovered from QZ8501 with MH17 and you will notice the differences.
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