Stephen Wright

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Investigators remove parts from Lion Air Flight 610 that crashed into Java Sea, for further investigation at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. New details about the crashed Lion Air's jet previous flight have cast more doubt on the Indonesian airline's claim to have fixed technical problems as hundreds of personnel searched the sea a fifth day Friday for victims and the plane's fuselage.
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The airline claims to have fixed technical problems that occurred with the plane in its previous flight, but those are being questioned.
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A member of Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) inspects debris recovered from the area where a Lion Air passenger jet is suspected to crash, at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. A Lion Air flight crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital on Monday in a blow to the country's aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and U.S.
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The 189 onboard are presumed dead.
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In this Aug. 5, 2018, photo, students sit in front of building that houses the headquarters of Sinarmas Group, one of Indonesia's largest palm oil company, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The main global group for certifying sustainable wood has suspended plans to give its influential endorsement to Indonesian paper giant Sinarmas after revelations it cut down tropical forests and used an opaque corporate structure to hide its activities.
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Forests Group Won't Endorse Paper Giant
The company violated their no-deforestation promises because they were taking wood grown on land where the natural forest is being progressively cut down.
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It comes after Greenpeace ended a five-year truce with Sinarmas, accusing it of destroying tropical forests during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.
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