Quick Hits
The Fort McMurray fire has been slowed by two days of rain, and a wind direction change is moving it away from the oil sands camps.
Meanwhile it looks like they are closing in on the crash site of EgyptAir Flight MS804 as they have been collecting debris that has been identified as belonging to the aircraft. Also today the aviation media is reporting that the automatic data channel transmissions between the aircraft and air traffic control reported ‘smoke detected’ inside cabin before crash. This was the automatic system and we only know that sensors were reporting smoke and well as other problems in the last minutes of the flight. The reports are probably a record of problems on the plane, but they could also be a symptom of the aircraft’s systems failing.
