The mass storm of the border caused division in Europe, where leaders of fellow EU states called for Spain to ensure that the incident was contained.

CEUTA, Spain/ FNIDEQ, Morocco, July 31 - Spain said on Friday that it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most ​of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.
The Spanish government's representative in the enclave of Ceuta said 57 bodies had been recovered ‌on the Spanish side of the border and that there could be additional casualties on the Moroccan side. It said some drowned and some were crushed while trying to climb the breakwater that holds the border fence.

Moroccan forces beat back crowds with batons and tear gas at the gates to Ceuta, trying to prevent more from storming across into the tiny Spanish territory that juts on a spit of sandy land into the Mediterranean from #Morocco.
The rush on the border caused division in Europe, where leaders of fellow EU states called for Spain to ensure that the ​incident was contained. Right-wing parties around the continent blamed the incident on Spain's comparatively lax migration policies, including an amnesty granted to hundreds of thousands of unauthorised migrants this year.
France said it was increasing checks on its ​border with Spain, and Italy threatened to suspend Spain from the EU's internal open-border scheme.

Probe cites history of overweight flights, inadequate oversight in crash that killed 10 off Alaska.

JUNEAU, Alaska — The operator of a commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska last year, killing all 10 people on board, had a history of overweight flights, according to U.S. federal investigators.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in a report released Thursday, also found the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) oversight of the company, Bering Air, was inadequate.

Both were contributing factors to the February 2025 crash, which was one of Alaska’s deadliest plane crashes this century. The NTSB also determined the pilot did not monitor and maintain adequate airspeed, likely because he was trying to manage the plane’s ice protection system while preparing to approach the airport in Nome. And it said the plane was overweight for a trip into icy conditions. The airport itself had temporarily closed its runways for de-icing, the agency said.

The Associated Press sent a message seeking comment to Bering Air. The FAA released a statement in response to questions stating it “takes NTSB recommendations seriously and will carefully review them.”

Recommendations made by the NTSB to the FAA include calling for pilot training on preventing and recovering from loss of control in flight for many charter and air taxi operators. The NTSB also raised prior recommendations, such as expanded use of flight data monitoring programs and broader load manifest requirements.

The NTSB said it found a pattern of underreported weights on Bering Air flight manifests and flights operating above weight limits.

The agency said the FAA failed to recognize the air carrier’s “increased operational complexity and rapid growth” after the pandemic and bankruptcy of its largest competitor as factors warranting increased oversight. The report said the FAA’s oversight “failed to identify and address the routine operation of overweight flights.”

Jennifer Homendy, the NTSB chair, in a statement said the tragedy “was not the result of a single failure, but a series of preventable breakdowns that eroded critical safety margins.”

The plane was flying as part of a regularly scheduled commuter flight from the community of Unalakleet to Nome, a 150-mile (240-kilometre) trip. Authorities have said that the aircraft went missing about 30 miles (50 kilometres) southeast of Nome. The wreckage was recovered from a drifting ice floe.

Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press

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