Plus: Remembering Raquel Welch | Wednesday, February 15, 2023
| | | | | | | Presented By HCA Healthcare | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Feb 15, 2023 | | Good Wednesday afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera — is 595 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for the copy edit. 🎵 Please join Axios' Sara Fischer and Erica Pandey tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET for a virtual event on the music industry's future in a digital world. Guests include Grammy-nominated DJ, producer and entrepreneur Steve Aoki and Audius co-founder Roneil Rumburg. Register here. | | | | | | ✈️ 1 big thing: Averting flight disaster | | The Reagan National Airport control tower. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Several recent, narrowly averted airplane catastrophes have raised serious concerns throughout the aviation community about flight safety, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick reports. - The alarming near misses have prompted acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen to announce the formation of a "safety review team."
In the past few months: - A FedEx 767 nearly landed atop a Southwest 737 that was cleared for takeoff while the 767 was nearing the runway in bad weather with poor visibility at Texas' Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
- A Delta 737 aborted its takeoff roll at New York's JFK after an American Airlines 777 errantly crossed onto the runway ahead of it.
- A United 777 entered a nearly 8,600-foot-per-minute dive shortly after takeoff from Maui's Kahului Airport in December, the Air Current revealed. The pilots recovered, and continued the trip after coming within 800 feet of the Pacific Ocean.
Between the lines: Each of the potential tragedies was prevented by at least one pilot's recognition that something was wrong. - In the Austin and JFK incidents, it's clear from the air traffic control recordings that better communication between pilots and controllers could have stopped the chain of events leading to near-disaster far earlier on.
"Recent events remind us that we cannot become complacent and that we must continually invest in our aviation system," the FAA's Nolen said at a Senate hearing today. |     | | | | | | 2. Pablo Neruda's family says he was poisoned | | Chilean poet Pablo Neruda leans on a ship's railing near New York City in 1966. Photo: Sam Falk/New York Times via Getty Images Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died from poisoning nearly 50 years ago, his family says based on a new report from forensic scientists. - The cause of Neruda's death has been the subject of debate for decades, Axios Latino co-authors Russell Contreras and Marina E. Franco write.
The official line has been that Neruda, who passed away just as dictator Augusto Pinochet came to power, died of prostate cancer. But his family has long argued that wasn't the case. - Neruda's family says forensic tests carried out by a team of experts from Canada, Denmark, and Chile showed the presence of Clostridium botulinum, a toxin that can cause paralysis in the nervous system and death.
It's still unknown who might have poisoned Neruda. | | | | | | | | A message from HCA Healthcare | | The organization supporting the next generation of doctors and nurses | | |  | | | | HCA Healthcare invests in nurses and physicians. An example: As a significant sponsor of graduate medical education — and through partnerships with nursing schools across the country — HCA Healthcare increases access to education and advanced career development for clinicians. Learn more. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios - As the pandemic's expanded SNAP benefits phase out this month, funding for nutrition programs will be a central fight during coming farm bill negotiations. Go deeper.
- The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in Buffalo last May was sentenced today to life in state prison. Go deeper.
- The U.S. is in danger of payment default as early as July if the debt limit isn't raised, the Congressional Budget Office warned today.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🎥 Remembering Raquel Welch | | Raquel Welch speaks at a Hollywood gala in 2017. Photo: Donato Sardella/Getty Images Iconic actress Raquel Welch has passed away at the age of 82 in her Los Angeles home, The Washington Post reports. - She became an instant star after the release of a publicity photo for the film "One Million Years B.C." that showed her wearing a tattered animal skin bikini.
Raquel Welch and the late singer Trini Lopez in New York in 1965. Photo: Santi Visalli/Getty Images Welch refused to do nude scenes but "her fame was always tied directly to her sexuality, a fate she accepted with regret," the L.A. Times reports. - She told Men's Health in 2012: "There was this perception of 'Oh, she's just a sexpot. She's just a body. She probably can't walk and chew gum at the same time.'"
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