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by groundbird
Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:05 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Six killed after business jet crashes in California, sparks 'fully involved' fire
Replies: 70
Views: 17410

Re: Six killed after business jet crashes in California, sparks 'fully involved' fire

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...

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by groundbird
Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:32 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: The Atlantic Tackles MH370 Final Conclusions
Replies: 177
Views: 33650

Re: The Atlantic Tackles MH370 Final Conclusions

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...

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by groundbird
Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:21 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi Q1 2019
Replies: 5479
Views: 824015

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

WPvsMW wrote:
"submarine component". Huh???

Patience and context show 'submarine component' meant 'hidden from view'.

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by groundbird
Tue Feb 05, 2019 12:03 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Crash in Yorba Linda, CA
Replies: 81
Views: 17585

Re: Crash in Yorba Linda, CA

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'

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by groundbird
Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:49 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang
Replies: 3187
Views: 655182

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang

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...

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by groundbird
Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:28 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Why hasn’t plane design changed much?
Replies: 150
Views: 19058

Re: Why hasn’t plane design changed much?

...and because - as in nature, architecture, design etc.:

'Form follows function.'

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by groundbird
Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:44 am
Forum: Technical/Operations
Topic: Female Pilots in Commercial Aviation
Replies: 120
Views: 14770

Re: Female Pilots in Commercial Aviation

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?

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by groundbird
Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:32 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang
Replies: 3187
Views: 655182

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

Would this have covered it?
"'What's it doing now?' click, click, click."

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by groundbird
Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:53 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Boiled Peanuts in carry on baggage?
Replies: 4
Views: 3126

Re: Boiled Peanuts in carry on baggage?

Peanut allergy freak-out in the cabin is the issue I'd be thinking about.

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by groundbird
Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:40 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Plane Crash at TKK (Chuuk, FSM) - Air Niugini
Replies: 156
Views: 44013

Re: Plane Crash at TKK (Chuuk, FSM) - Air Niugini

Stop all the hair-splitting folks. This was a UCFIW - UnControlled Flight Into Water

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by groundbird
Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:45 am
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Flight attendant on AA flight insulting passengers
Replies: 33
Views: 4505

Re: Flight attendant on AA flight insulting passengers

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.

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by groundbird
Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:50 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: US set to request five years of social media history for all visa applicants
Replies: 86
Views: 6802

Re: US set to request five years of social media history for all visa applicants

There is no situation that the current president's administration cannot make worse. In this case, tourists and visitors traveling to the USA.

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by groundbird
Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:37 pm
Forum: Aviation Hobby
Topic: I watch/spot airliners; wife thinks I am nuts....
Replies: 34
Views: 8885

Re: I watch/spot airliners; wife thinks I am nuts....

When I got home from plane spotting, I told my wife she had drawn her eyebrows too high.
She looked surprised.

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by groundbird
Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:27 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Subsurface Defect Led to Uncontained Engine Failure - 2016 AA 763 engine fire
Replies: 30
Views: 5761

Re: Subsurface Defect Led to Uncontained Engine Failure - 2016 AA 763 engine fire

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.

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by groundbird
Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:10 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Cargolux considers adding more 747 freighters
Replies: 46
Views: 11986

Re: Cargolux considers adding more 747 freighters

"Cargolux - Europe's largest cargo carrier - is hiring 60 pilots for its Luxembourg operations."

How many additional Cargolux freighters could 60 pilots cover?

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by groundbird
Sun Nov 26, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Next UA mid-con from SFO. Any guesses?
Replies: 31
Views: 4827

Re: Next UA mid-con from SFO. Any guesses?

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.

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by groundbird
Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:46 pm
Forum: Technical/Operations
Topic: Can male pilots (UK) have longer hair if tied back or up?
Replies: 31
Views: 8254

Re: Can male pilots (UK) have longer hair if tied back or up?

Standard - if one looks like a weed, expect to get weeded out.

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by groundbird
Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:00 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: United Employee Critically Injured by Spinning Prop
Replies: 13
Views: 6239

Re: United Employee Critically Injured by Spinning Prop

"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.

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by groundbird
Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:00 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Qantas to announce ambitious plan to fly East Coast Australia to London and New York by 2022
Replies: 316
Views: 44924

Re: Qantas to announce ambitious plan to fly East Coast Australia to London and New York by 2022

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...

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by groundbird
Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:58 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: 20-year old arrested in Israel for filming planes landing at Sde Dov Airport (with a drone)
Replies: 43
Views: 6701

Re: 20-year old arrested in Israel for filming planes landing at Sde Dov Airport (with a drone)

The grotesque music in the video's sound track shows additional poor judgement.

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by groundbird
Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:33 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: UBS predicts pilotless cargo flights by 2025
Replies: 135
Views: 13686

Re: UBS predicts pilotless cargo flights by 2025

No one to ask "What's it doing now?"

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by groundbird
Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:07 am
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Badly Named (Or Branded) Airlines.
Replies: 152
Views: 13228

Re: Badly Named (Or Branded) Airlines.

Trump/Trump Shuttle

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by groundbird
Tue May 23, 2017 10:36 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Thomson 787 Returns to SFB After Numerous Pax & Crew Fall Ill
Replies: 1
Views: 1672

Re: Thomson 787 Returns to SFB After Numerous Pax & Crew Fall Ill

Even 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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by groundbird
Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:02 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246450

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

Please
- 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

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by groundbird
Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: CLT AA Flight Struck Deer
Replies: 34
Views: 7197

Re: CLT AA Flight Struck Deer

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...

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by groundbird
Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:20 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: PIA Staff Sacrifice Goat on Ramp as Prayer for Safety of ATR42s
Replies: 42
Views: 7526

Re: PIA Staff Sacrifice Goat on Ramp as Prayer for Safety of ATR42s

A robust culture of Safety First @ Pakistan International Airlines - Safety Meeting

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by groundbird
Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:11 am
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: (Just turned 15) Can u be a pilot with adhd
Replies: 22
Views: 23642

Re: (Just turned 15) Can u be a pilot with adhd

You 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...

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by groundbird
Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:00 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: The Core Truths Of A-Net
Replies: 340
Views: 32602

RE: The Core Truths Of A-Net

No use for A.net to update airport and airline codes.

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by groundbird
Tue Jun 16, 2015 1:01 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 KUL-PEK Missing - Part 80
Replies: 201
Views: 39049

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 KUL-PEK Missing - Part 80

Most 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?

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by groundbird
Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:13 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74
Replies: 210
Views: 53939

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74

@ 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...

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by groundbird
Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:04 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74
Replies: 210
Views: 53939

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74

<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 ...

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by groundbird
Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:03 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74
Replies: 210
Views: 53939

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 74

In 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...

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by groundbird
Thu Nov 27, 2014 2:09 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 73
Replies: 222
Views: 24671

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 73

From 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...

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by groundbird
Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:17 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Largest Commuter LAX To Santa Barbara 1976 - 1978
Replies: 9
Views: 4869

RE: Largest Commuter LAX To Santa Barbara 1976 - 1978

F-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...

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by groundbird
Sat Nov 15, 2014 3:23 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 72
Replies: 207
Views: 32692

RE: Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing KUL-PEK Part 72

The 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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