Flight Safety Information - July 19, 2024 No. 144 In This Issue : Incident: Malta Air B38M near Dublin on Jul 18th 2024, engine vibrations : Incident: Avianca A20N at Bogota on Jul 17th 2024, thermal runaway of phone battery after being thrown : Incident: Endeavor CRJ7 at Atlanta on Jul 17th 2024, smell of burning : US DOJ says it has made substantial progress toward final Boeing plea agreement : US safety board to hold hearings on Boeing 737 MAX door incident : Boeing case puts a spotlight on plea agreements involving corporate defendants : Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland : Kalitta Air faces $400,000 penalty for FAA violation : Airbus A321XLR receives EASA type certification : Pilots are ditching top captain jobs in favor of $200,000 second-in-command gigs with better work-life balance, JetBlue founder says : Saudi airline buys 50 electric air taxi jets from Lilium : Calendar of Events Incident: Malta Air B38M near Dublin on Jul 18th 2024, engine vibrations A Malta Air Boeing 737-8 MAX on behalf of Ryanair, registration 9H-VVA performing flight FR-1746 from Milan Bergamo (Italy) to Knock (Ireland), was enroute at FL300 near Cardiff,WL (UK) heading towards Knock when the crew decided to divert to Dublin reporting left hand engine (LEAP) vibrations. They reduced the engine to idle thrust, began the descent into Dublin and landed safely on Dublin's runway 28L about 30 minutes later. https://avherald.com/h?article=51b4c7ab&opt=0 Incident: Avianca A20N at Bogota on Jul 17th 2024, thermal runaway of phone battery after being thrown An Avianca Airbus A320-200N, registration HK-5410 performing flight AV-249 from Bogota (Colombia) to Sao Paulo Guarulhos,SP (Brazil) with 161 passengers and 6 crew, was climbing out of Bogota's runway 14R when the crew stopped the climb at about FL240 and decided to return to Bogota reporting a passenger's phone had suffered a thermal runaway. The aircraft landed safely back on Bogota's runway 14L about 3:25 hours after departure. The airline reported two passengers had become unruly and threw a mobile phone that heated up as a result. The aircraft burned off fuel, the disruptive passengers were handed to authorities. A replacement A320-200N registration N919AV reached Sao Paulo with a delay of about 5:30 hours. The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 11 hours after landing back. https://avherald.com/h?article=51b4bc28&opt=0 Incident: Endeavor CRJ7 at Atlanta on Jul 17th 2024, smell of burning An Endeavor Canadair CRJ-700 on behalf of Delta Airlines, registration N340CA performing flight DL-4955 from Atlanta,GA to Montgomery,AL (USA) with 57 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing out of Atlanta's runway 26L when the aircraft stopped the climb at 8000 feet reporting a smokey odour in the cabin. The aircraft returned to Atlanta for a safe landing on runway 26L about 25 minutes after departure. A replacement CRJ-700 registration N376CA reached Montgomery with a delay of about 2 hours. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Atlanta about 26 hours after landing back. https://avherald.com/h?article=51b4b9ec&opt=0 US DOJ says it has made substantial progress toward final Boeing plea agreement WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday the government has made "substantial progress" toward reaching a final plea agreement with Boeing but does not expect to file the details before July 24. The planemaker on July 7 agreed in principle to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million after the Justice Department said in May the company had breached a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement. The department plans to file a factual statement supporting its breach determination with the plea deal, which it had initially expected to file by Friday. DOJ said it "will continue to work expeditiously in an effort to file" by July 24. Boeing declined to comment on Thursday. Boeing plans to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration after the government said the planemaker knowingly made false representations about key software for the 737 MAX linked to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Texas on Monday set a fast schedule to consider the objections to the plea deal from relatives of those killed in the MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. As part of the deal, Boeing agreed to spend at least $455 million over the next three years to boost safety and compliance programs. Boeing's board will also meet with relatives of those killed in the MAX crashes. The deal also imposes an independent monitor, who will have to publicly file annual progress reports, to oversee the firm's compliance. Boeing will be on probation during the monitor's three-year term. The MAX crashes led to a 20-month grounding of Boeing's best-selling plane and cost the company more than $20 billion. O'Connor previously criticized Boeing, saying in 2023: "Boeing's crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history." A panel blew off a new MAX 9 jet during a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines flight two days before the 2021 deferred agreement that shielded the company from prosecution expired. Boeing faces a separate ongoing criminal probe into the Alaska Airlines incident, which did not result in any serious injuries, as well as a two-day National Transportation Safety Board hearing next month. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-doj-says-made-substantial-224623446.html US safety board to hold hearings on Boeing 737 MAX door incident WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday it had scheduled 20 hours of hearings over two days on the January Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 in-flight door plug emergency and would review oversight by U.S. safety regulators. The NTSB said on its website the Aug. 6-7 hearings are set to last 10 hours each day and would focus on Boeing 737 MAX manufacturing and inspections, FAA oversight of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems and events surrounding the removal of the door plug in 2023. The hearing would also review safety management and quality management systems. Boeing has faced mounting questions after a door panel detached during a Jan. 5 flight on a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9, forcing pilots to make an emergency landing while passengers were exposed to a gaping hole 16,000 feet above the ground. The FAA had grounded all MAX 9 airplanes for several weeks and required safety checks before they could resume flights. The agency also has barred Boeing from expanding MAX production as the agency reviews the planemaker's practices. The NTSB said previously that four key bolts were missing from the door plug that blew off the Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the incident. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told Reuters in April she expected witnesses from Alaska, Boeing and Spirit would provide testimony. The FAA and Boeing referred questions about the hearing to the NTSB. Last month, the NTSB said Boeing could lose its status as a party to the probe after it violated rules by providing non-public information to media and speculating about possible causes. The NTSB said Boeing would no longer see information produced during its probe and unlike other parties, Boeing would not be allowed to ask questions of other participants at the August hearing. Elizabeth Lund, Boeing's senior vice president of quality, who had made remarks last month that violated the rules is expected to appear at the hearing, the NTSB said last month. The NTSB said last month it would subpoena Boeing witnesses to appear at the hearing. The NTSB said Wednesday the full investigation will take approximately one year to 18 months from the accident to complete. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ntsb-probe-faa-oversight-boeing-165834923.html Boeing case puts a spotlight on plea agreements involving corporate defendants After two jetliner crashes killed 346 people, a $2.5 billion settlement that let Boeing avoid criminal prosecution failed to resolve questions about the safety of the aerospace giant's planes. Federal prosecutors now accuse the company of failing to live up to terms of the 2021 settlement. Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a felony fraud charge in a new deal with the Justice Department. The department said Thursday that it expects to file the detailed plea agreement no sooner than the middle of next week. Experts on corporate behavior say whether the new agreement has a more lasting impact on safety than the earlier settlement could come down to how much power is placed in the hands of an independent monitor who is assigned to oversee Boeing for three years. Prosecutors made the appointment of such a monitor a condition of the plea deal, which also calls for Boeing to pay a new $243.6 million fine. “Your real concern is protecting against the loss of future lives in future crashes, and that is something that the monitor can have more impact on than simply the amount of the fine," said John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University who studies corporate governance and white-collar crime. The finalized plea and sentence are due to be filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas. The filing will give a more precise description of how the compliance monitor will be chosen and the scope of the monitor's duties. Already, the government appears to have backed away from a plan that would given Boeing the biggest role in picking the watchdog. Families of some of the passengers who died in the crashes have said they plan to oppose the agreement. They want a trial, not a plea deal, and they say Boeing should pay a $24 billion fine. Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, said the relatives of crash victims should have the right to propose a monitor for the judge to appoint. The Justice Department initially planned to select a monitor from a list of three nominees submitted by Boeing, and would ask the company for more names if necessary, according to participants in a June 30 briefing that department officials gave to passengers' families and their lawyers. The deal that Boeing agreed to “in principle” a week later said the Justice Department would seek candidates through a public job posting on its website and then select one “with feedback from Boeing.” The precise extent of the company's role was left unclear. Once the department and Boeing settle on a choice, prosecutors will tell U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor. If he doesn’t object within 10 days, the appointment would go through. The person picked would need to meet "specific qualifications” laid out in the posting and the department’s guidelines on selecting monitors in criminal cases, according to the filing. The monitor will oversee Boeing’s compliance with the plea agreement during a three-year probation period, during which the official will write “a confidential annual report for the government,” and file an executive summary with the court. The use of monitors as part of plea agreements with companies convicted of crimes reflects prosecutors’ reluctance to issue indictments and take the cases to trial. Brandon Garrett, a Duke University law professor who tracks criminal cases involving corporations, said prosecutors long worried that a criminal indictment could destroy a large, publicly traded company, so they tended to favor out-of-court settlements in the most serious cases. That changed, he said, after the financial crisis of 2008, and the concern became that companies were being treated as “too big to jail,” a phrase Garrett used in the title of his 2014 book. The effectiveness of plea deals and deferred prosecution agreements that allow defendants – like Boeing in 2021 – to avoid criminal liability came into question. “Especially when you had companies repeatedly getting prosecuted, something needs to change — maybe these companies really should get a criminal record,” Garrett said. “That’s when we started to see ... more large cases where companies would be convicted.” Nadia Milleron, whose 24-year-old daughter, Samya Stumo, died in the second of two fatal 737 Max crashes, said the Boeing plea deal is much better than the settlement reached three-and-a-half years ago. In January 2021, the Justice Department agreed not to prosecute the company for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, a charge based on allegations that Boeing misled regulators who approved the 737 Max nearly a decade ago. Still, Milleron and relatives of other crash victims want a trial that might unearth more details about discussions inside Boeing leading up to, and even after, the crashes, which occurred in 2018 in Indonesia and 2019 in Ethiopia. It appeared likely that the Justice Department would permanently drop the 2021 charge until this January, when a panel covering an unused emergency exit blew off a Max jet during an Alaska Airlines flight. The Federal Aviation Administration increased its oversight, and the agency’s chief said manufacturing problems at Boeing “don’t seem to be getting resolved.” The Justice Department defends its decision to seek a plea deal by saying that it includes the most serious punishment possible under the charge facing Boeing. “We should be asking whether these prosecutions are working and what can be done to make them more effective,” Garrett said. He suggested that the judge could take an active role in monitoring Boeing to make sure the company complies with the new agreement after violating the old one. Coffee, the Columbia law professor, said the key to whether the deal deters Boeing from future violations will be a strong and independent monitor. “Companies fear a free agent roaming around in their files,” he said. “On the other hand, if there isn’t some ability for the monitor to directly go to the court and say ‘They are not living up to the terms of the agreement,’ you have an ineffective monitor.” In one notorious case, prosecutors blocked a federal judge in New York from releasing a monitor’s reports about HSBC, a London-based bank that entered a deferred prosecution agreement over allegations that it failed to prevent a Mexican drug cartel from laundering money. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t have deferred prosecution agreements, but they tend to be negotiated to be strongly in the interests of the defendant,” he said. The judge in the Boeing case has indicated that after the Justice Department submits details of the plea agreement, he will give relatives of the victims seven days to lodge objections. The government and Boeing then will have 14 days to respond. The January 2021 decision by the Justice Department not to prosecute Boeing came in the final days of the Trump administration. In 2022 and 2023, federal prosecutions of corporations rose modestly under the Biden administration, according to figures from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. “We are in an election year, so we will be looking to see how that focus by the Department of Justice plays out after the election in November and whether the focus on corporate crime remains the same,” said Kya Henley, a former public defender in Maryland who now represents companies and individuals in white-collar cases. “Everyone gets to set their agenda.” https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/boeing-case-puts-spotlight-plea-182919314.html Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland Passengers saw flames soon after flight left Edinburgh for New York in 2023, leading to emergency Prestwick landing Boeing faces fresh questions about the safety of its aircraft after an engine fire on a transatlantic flight from Edinburgh caused an emergency landing soon after takeoff. Flames were seen by passengers briefly shooting from the engine of a Delta Air Lines 767 soon after it took off for New York in February last year, after a turbine blade broke off during takeoff. The flames subsided while the plane was airborne but it made an emergency landing at Prestwick airport south of Glasgow, where ground crew noticed fuel leaking from the plane’s right wing. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the UK government agency that investigates aviation safety, has written to the Federal Aviation Administration in the US asking it to take action with Boeing, which has its headquarters in Virginia. The AAIB said the fractured turbine blade damaged five other blades in the engine. Vibrations from the “out of balance turbine” caused a tube carrying fuel in the wing to fracture, leading fuel to escape from the wing’s fuel tank. The fuel was ignited by the engine’s hot air exhaust, with footage of the flames captured by a passenger sitting near the wing. In a statement, the AAIB said: “A safety recommendation has been made to the Federal Aviation Administration that requires the Boeing Aircraft Company to demonstrate that following this serious incident, the design of the slat track housing drain tube on the Boeing 767 family of aircraft continues to comply with the certification requirements for large transport aircraft.” The Delta flight to JFK airport in New York was carrying 211 passengers and 10 crew. It said two members of the cabin crew had heard a rattling sound as the Boeing taxied for takeoff, which appeared to come from the cargo hold. Nothing abnormal was seen or heard by the pilots, but the noise continued during takeoff. They warned the flights purser, who tried but failed to warn the pilots on the plane’s internal phone. She made contact at the second attempt and said passengers were alarmed by the “quite bad” noise. A temperature indicator for the right engine began fluctuating. The flight commander walked the length of the aircraft but could not locate any specific issues. He decided to divert the plane to Prestwick, which has long runways, as a precaution. An excerpt from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch report. Photograph: AAIB En route to Prestwick, the flames were filmed by a passenger. The flames disappeared and the commander decided to fly on with the right engine at reduced power. There were no injuries as a result of the incident but the AAIB said all those onboard were “rapidly disembarked” once the fuel leak was spotted at Prestwick. Boeing has been contacted for comment. This is the latest in a series of safety incidents involving Boeing aircraft, which have contributed to company executives leaving in a management shake-up. It pleaded guilty to US criminal charges over the crashes of two 737 Max jetliners in 2018 and 2019 after violating an agreement with regulators in 2021. It has also been sanctioned after a 737 Max 9 cabin panel blew out in mid-air on an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon, in January this year. A number of whistleblowers have gone public with concerns about safety culture and management at the company. In 2021, the UK government temporarily banned from British airspace Boeing 777 aircraft which used the same type of engine which caught fire over Denver, Colorado. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/18/boeing-fresh-safety-questions-engine-fire-flight-scotland Kalitta Air faces $400,000 penalty for FAA violation Agency alleges cargo airline flew in restricted area without fully functioning navigation unit The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a civil penalty of $400,000 against cargo airline Kalitta Air for allegedly operating flights in a prohibited region when certain aircraft have a faulty multimode receiver. The agency announced Friday that Kalitta Air, based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, used prohibited procedures on 44 flights between late December 2022 and Jan. 26, 2023. The Boeing 777 freighter did not have the required software needed to correct a fault in the navigation equipment. Multi-mode receivers receive land-and-satellite-based signals that enables precision navigation. The violation stems from a 2020 order prohibiting aircraft with Collins GLU-2100 multimode receivers that had a specific type of software installed from operating in a part of the world where the loss of global positioning system data, or degraded GPS accuracy, was possible. “This improper mapping within the operational software, if not addressed, could, during a high-precision approach with a GPS error, result in controlled flight into terrain,” the 2020 airworthiness directive said. Airlines were instructed to revise flight manuals informing pilots of the banned areas if the navigational system can’t calculate its position within three-tenths of a nautical mile. Kalitta, which operates five 777s for DHL Express, has asked to meet with the FAA to discuss the case. It is possible the penalty could be negotiated down. The company did not respond to a request for comment by time of publication. Collins Aerospace has since released new software to rectify issues with the GPS software. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kalitta-air-faces-400000-penalty-for-faa-violation Airbus A321XLR receives EASA type certification Cologne/Toulouse, 19th July 2024 – The Airbus A321XLR powered by CFM LEAP-1A engines has received its Type Certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), preparing the way for the entry-into-service of the new aircraft at the end of the summer. The Type Certificate was handed over by Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of EASA to Isabelle Bloy, A321XLR Chief Engineer. Certification of the Pratt & Whitney engine version is slated for later in 2024. "Here comes the A321XLR, a differentiated product that brings new value to the market, expanding the possibilities for our airline customers and passengers. With its long range, the A321XLR enables a host of new direct routes, offering natural growth opportunities to our customers and the travelling public. It provides airlines with the efficiency of commonality inside the A320/A321 product range and its versatile cabin a range of service possibilities that are just unique. It is quintessential Airbus!”, says Christian Scherer, CEO of the Commercial Aircraft business of Airbus. “With the certification, we have reached a key milestone. The next step is to prepare the aircraft for its first commercial missions with customers worldwide. We look forward to working with XLR customers to support the integration of the aircraft in their fleets.” The A321XLR sits side by side with widebodies in an airline’s fleet. It introduces the flexibility to add capacity, to open new routes, or even to continue operating existing ones when demand is variable. All while burning 30% less fuel per seat than previous generation competitor aircraft, and at roughly half the trip cost of modern widebodies. The A321XLR’s new Airspace cabin will provide passengers long haul comfort in all classes. The first A321XLR completed its maiden flight in June 2022. This was followed by an extensive test programme involving three test aircraft. So far more than 500 Airbus A321XLRs have been ordered. https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-07-airbus-a321xlr-receives-easa-type-certification Pilots are ditching top captain jobs in favor of $200,000 second-in-command gigs with better work-life balance, JetBlue founder says JetBlue founder David Neeleman said there's no longer a pilot shortage, but fewer pilots want to become captains. Beleaguered airlines are finally starting to recover from a crunched labor force caused by COVID-stunted travel, but they’re not in the clear yet, David Neeleman, JetBlue founder and founder-CEO of Breeze Airways warned. There are plenty of pilots eager for work—but not many want the labor-intensive title of “captain,” opting instead to retain the position as the less-stressful first officer. “First officer pay has gone up so much that a lot of these people don’t want to upgrade to captain because it affects their quality of life,” Neeleman said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference on Wednesday. Pilots making $200,000 as first officers based in Miami aren’t willing to trade their salaries or lifestyles for a $350,000 captain position in Newark, he explained. While both pilots physically fly the aircraft, first officers require less training and fewer certifications than captains—and don’t have to take the brunt of the safety pressures in operating an aircraft. Indeed, 7,000 American Airlines pilots declined promotions to captain last year, and these refusal rates have doubled in the past seven years, American’s pilots union Dennis Tajer told Reuters. As of last July, United had 987 captain vacancies that went unfulfilled for a year, with filled positions already unbalanced. The airline had 5,900 captains and 7,500 first officers. The job of flying commercial planes has the reputation of taking a toll on its pilots. The hours are unpredictable and long, with pilots often separated from their families for extended periods of time. The nerve-wracking process of takeoff and landing takes a physical toll as well, raising one’s heart rate and stress levels, which, over time, can lead to chronic sleep deprivation, anxiety, and depression. “It’s what we call a high-consequence industry,” Erin Bowen, founding chair of the Behavioral and Safety Science Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, told Vice. “When pilots make mistakes, the consequences can be catastrophic.” The Federal Aviation Administration has implemented regulations to mitigate physical and mental burnout, including increasing mental-health resources, limiting the hours pilots can fly, and mandating rest periods. But pilots don’t often report mental-health crises, fearing they’ll lose their flying licenses, according to National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy. “You should be able to seek professional mental health care while still being able to retain your job,” she said. “We’re talking about losing loved ones, going through divorces, just the stress of jobs. And it’s usually, at least for the pilots, fly or get denied.” Bumpy landing Over the pandemic, which disrupted travel and upended the industry, stress levels only rose. After COVID throttled demand for travel, airlines cut flights, furloughed or laid off thousands of pilots, or otherwise nudged them to retire with the offer of generous benefits. But by the time travel demand roared back to life, airlines found themselves 8,000 pilots short. Neeleman, whose airline start-up Breeze launched in 2021 in the thick of the industry’s struggles, is keenly aware of the impact of the pilot shortage on the efficiency and functionality of an airline. “A lot of people decided they didn’t want to go back to work, or they wanted to work a lot less, or they wanted to work from home,” he told Fortune. “And so it was really, really tough.” Pilot shortages meant there were few replacements for sick captains and thousands of flight cancellations, leaving airlines desperate for labor. There was a silver living for burnt-out pilots, however. Those unionized suddenly had leverage to ask for hefty pay bumps and perks for those with seniority. Today’s captains can make up to $500,000 per year, and first captains with 12 years of experience aren’t too behind, making up to almost $300,000 annually. Breeze certainly isn’t navigating pilot shortages today, Neeleman said. The company has 800 applicants waiting in line for an opportunity to fly its planes. But he admits that while the hefty pay for captains has solved one piece of airlines’ labor puzzle, it’s created another one, as first officers still making six-figure salaries aren’t convinced that switching seats in the cockpit is worth the stress. “It’s kind of the marginal utility of money,” Neeleman said. https://fortune.com/2024/07/18/pilots-captain-jobs-work-life-balance-jet-blue-founder-david-neeleman/ Saudi airline buys 50 electric air taxi jets from Lilium Saudia Group plans to take delivery of Lilium's first electric vertical jet in 2026. Photo: Courtesy of Lilium Germany-based air taxi developer Lilium has a "firm" order from Saudi Arabian airline Saudia Group for 50 of its electric jets, with an option to buy 50 more. Why it matters: The order, worth an estimated $450 million, is the largest commitment yet by an airline in the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) sector, the companies said. The Middle East is likely to be one of the first markets to deploy electric air taxis. Driving the news: The purchase deal was signed at a ceremony on Thursday in Munich, about 18 months after the companies' initial agreement to collaborate on electric flight in Saudi Arabia. Saudia agreed to make pre-payments on the $9 million planes according to certain aircraft delivery and performance milestones. Lilium will also provide aircraft fleet maintenance and support services — including annual replacement of the planes' batteries, which represents a key source of recurring revenue, Lilium co-founder Daniel Wiegand tells Axios. The first aircraft is expected to be delivered in 2026. Between the lines: Like other electric air taxi manufacturers, Lilium's aircraft takes off and lands vertically. But instead of electric propellers, Lilum's air taxi is propelled by an electric jet engine, which is more efficient in cruise mode. That enables it to fly longer-distance regional flights of an hour or two between cities — which represent a bigger, more lucrative market than urban air taxis, Wiegand says. Zoom in: Saudia expects to use Lilium's electric jets to support Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages, and to offer faster access to key sports and entertainment events in Riyadh, for example. The Lilium Jet will feature a large, premium cabin with capacity for up to six passengers, plus luggage. What they're saying: "The Middle East is a priority for Lilium, and Saudi Arabia will be a very large and exciting market for electric, high-speed regional air mobility," Lilium CEO Klaus Roewe said in a statement. What's next: Lilium says it's in "advanced discussions" with Saudi Arabian regulators to certify its aircraft before commercialization can begin. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/lilium-saudia-air-taxi-jets CALENDAR OF EVENTS • Airborne Public Safety Association, Inc. 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