From Reuters article: "Aerial video from local media showed burnt rubble in the shape of a small aircraft laying in a blackened part of a field across the road from the French Valley Airport." Local news sources report it was foggy at the time of the crash, plane was about 1,200 ft. past t...
Jump to postCoast Guard rescue debrief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7s-yxH2xHQ&t=0s
Denial of the likelihood that Zaharie did it seems based on incongruous mental constructs. Being unwilling or unable to understand that a complex human would deliberately do a complex set of exactly timed acts for complex reasons/motivations - yet lightly proposing that an exploding oxygen tank coul...
Jump to postWPvsMW wrote:
"submarine component". Huh???
Patience and context show 'submarine component' meant 'hidden from view'.
Karlsands wrote:
"I’d bet on a weigh and balance issue..."
This burst from being merely silly into the remarkably-jackass-comment category with the abject wrongness of using the word 'weigh'
I appreciate hearing from the experts posting here. The preceding dozen or two posts reveal to me a clarity that - as always - the Swiss cheese holes lined up for this catastrophe. The Swiss cheese concept demands to identify and understand the slices involved, not to debate or deny which slice(s) a...
Jump to post...and because - as in nature, architecture, design etc.:
'Form follows function.'
For a woman to become a successful ATP she will first have to climb down off the pedestal that society assures her to then steadfastly pursue equality of rationality as well as equal accountability for her knowledge / performance / behavior. Who can beef that?
Jump to postWould this have covered it?
"'What's it doing now?' click, click, click."
Peanut allergy freak-out in the cabin is the issue I'd be thinking about.
Jump to postStop all the hair-splitting folks. This was a UCFIW - UnControlled Flight Into Water
Jump to post777Jet has best applied Occam's razor here.
Jump to postSometimes it's hard to be a woman.
Jump to postThere is no situation that the current president's administration cannot make worse. In this case, tourists and visitors traveling to the USA.
Jump to postWhen I got home from plane spotting, I told my wife she had drawn her eyebrows too high.
She looked surprised.
Policy? Collect/confiscate all carry on bags on the ground at all evacuations before boarding rescue buses/shuttles back to terminal. Make this widely known in passengerdom.
Jump to post"Cargolux - Europe's largest cargo carrier - is hiring 60 pilots for its Luxembourg operations."
How many additional Cargolux freighters could 60 pilots cover?
This would be a nice thread for Vertical Scope to offer taking the route of serving mid-con a-netters
with the oft requested hover-over airfield/city names for airport identifiers (and airline names for airline codes).
Demand is high and the goal obtainable.
Standard - if one looks like a weed, expect to get weeded out.
Jump to post"Authorities say the plane was not on a runway at the time of the accident..."
Props to the non-aviation press for sticking to the facts and making sense.
Reading through this thread has made me wonder how close is say, Qantas to being able to offer around the world service in two non-stop flights with city pairs like Brisbane-London ...all eastbound sectors ..with only available or soon-to-be-available 777/350 variants ...with all first class lay out...
Jump to postThe grotesque music in the video's sound track shows additional poor judgement.
Jump to postEven though bleed air is not the source on 787s for cabin air - still must consider fume event. Some have said Florida wildfires in the region could have introduced carbon monoxide (or other by-products) in climb-out passing through pockets of such in the lower atmosphere? Related question: Do/shoul...
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- keep blue
- hover over 1) airport codes to get city/airport name, 2) airline codes to get name, and 3) aviation acronyms to reveal component words
Thanks
In the mid 70's while plane watching at Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA) before it was fenced, my two dogs took after a rabbit. As rabbit was flanked on either side by my two dogs, the rabbit ran straight, straight out into mid-field and across the active where it finally had come across an escape hole...
Jump to postA robust culture of Safety First @ Pakistan International Airlines - Safety Meeting
Jump to postYou are getting great feedback to your concerns here! May I add: Aim yourself towards that goal of flying. Start today. Find and sign up for groundschool and you'll meet like minded people. Learn to wash aircraft, learn to detall them. Look for jobs in that environment. Open and name a savings accou...
Jump to postMost all of us would go to great lengths to have coffee and savor the dawn.
How far is it from forward lav to forward galley?
@ therealswede There is a lot of open space between your wielding of the phrase "drawing any conclusion" and my encouragement for open consideration of all significant probabilities in airliner losses that have occurred in cruise level flight with zero communications. Your misdirecting and condescen...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/therealswede" class="quote" target="_blank">therealswede</a> (<a href="#79" class="quote">Reply 79</a>):<br/><i>The statistically most probable ...
Jump to postIn considering or developing the theoretical concept that Captain Z worked alone: as to means: one can regard Captain Zhariere's training, knowledge and experience as to method: one can regard (within it's boundaries) the expert illumation provided by the a.net high Respect rating posters as to moti...
Jump to postFrom the gate I have had particular interest in the posts where a poster is able to rationally consider, posit or discuss the Zaharie acting alone scenario - whether it is their favored theory or not - the set of posts that have the intent and purpose of shaping, developing, exploring, then advancin...
Jump to postF-27s are what I flew on for a handful of <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> - <acronym title="Santa Barbara - Municipal (SBA / KSBA), USA - California">SBA</acronym> - <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - Californ...
Jump to postThe incredible complexity of B777-200ER electronic systems, redundancies, switchology, and wiring maze is highly challenging to know and understand. Yet since man made it, man can figure it out. The importance of professionals here sleuthing the tech aspect is unquestionably valid in seeking MH370 t...
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