Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

The seat switch answer doesn't smell right. But sure, it's possible. The pilot might have been sitting on the seat in such a manner than if it did move forward, his leg gets caught between the front of it and the control column. That's plausible. But seems like a very convenient answer. And just whe...

Re: Should Boeing buy back the Wichita plant?

Seems to me that half of Boeing's issues would be resolved if they just had the one software package for quality control and bug logging that everyone who needs to can access, whether they work for Boeing or Spirit. Right now Boeing and Spirit have their own separate systems. Spirit can't access Boe...

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

So apparently, the Coastguard crew were given the instruction: "Taxi to holding point C5, JA722A. Number 1. Thank you" I'm willing to bet the inclusion of the "Number 1" in the taxi instructions led the coast guard crew to believe they were not being told to hold short of the run...

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

KFLLCFII wrote:

Still waiting to hear the A350 CVR discussions prior to touchdown.

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

I can't be the only one struggling to understand 3/4 of what is being said on this recording! Are they speaking English and Japanese? Some of the instructions the tower is giving is nearly impossible to understand. I wonder if this could be a contributing factor? It's a very poor quality recording ...

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

rj777 wrote:

I bet once they get the A350 completely cooled, they'll probably go after the black boxes?

Re: Updated: Final report released of Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

I just don't understand how you can mistake the condition levers, that has a different mode of operation and the fact there are TWO of them, for the flaps lever.

Re: Japan Airlines A350 collides with aircraft at HND

RE the engines still running after evacuation starts: Judging by the damage to the nose we can clearly see here: https://twitter.com/Vinamralongani/status/1742130441484906960 , I would put my money on the avionics bay having taken a lot of damage and thus the computers or even just the wires leading...

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

I'm hearing lots about BA not getting luggage from one side of T5 to the other and cancelling flights all over. A group of friends had their morning GLA-LHR shuttle cancelled on Friday 25th Aug. No alternatives offered by BA until the next day. They had to beg to get transferred onto a Delta flight ...

Re: What Happened to the Boeing 797 Concept?

Boeing makes lots of concepts but the fact stands that they have only developed one all new airliner in the last 29 years. I wouldn't get too excited about computer generated images... they're meant to distract from their inability to create real airplanes. One could argue that they haven't needed ...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Suicide is not a good look for CCP. We won't ever learn the actual cause (Pilot suicide or hi-jack gone wrong) but just a manufactured scapegoat cause. It takes time to do the mental gymnastics in order to weave an intricate enough web to find someone else to blame. My bet is they'll pin it on Boein...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

So, it looks like the condition lever were set to feather during the final approach. What kind of PM doesn't scan their controls when the PF says he is getting no power? The mind boggles. It's such a simple measure and this supposedly well qualified and experienced Captain failed at it. Maybe there ...

Re: Cargo Cessna Caravan runs out of fuel and crashes near Buenos Aires

The thing was burnt to ashes. Calling it a w/o is a little superfluous!

Re: Bomber 139 - 737 Waterbomber Crashes in Western Australia

Not often you get the news that something the size of a 737 has crashed while in flight (as opposed to taxiing) and the crew walk away.

I wonder if it wasn't more of a forced landing than a crash (the latter assumes a more sudden impact with little to no control)

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

Hate the old club seats! Your only storage is that ridiculous drawer that you can’t reach from your seat. Won’t book it. Flown in that seat 6 times and only ever used that draw for my shoes. Plenty storage in the bin above your head. So, never really had an issue with it. and when in a window seat ...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Does the ATR 72-500 typically have an older tape based flight recorder/FDR, or a more modern solid state memory unit? This aircraft was 15 years old so was constructed round about the time the transition from one to the other was happening.

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Still have to go with Simon on this one. There is circumstantial evidence but not yet any positive proof. I think it's healthy to be skeptical until there is. Especially with the single frame transition to flames, which is recognizable as a splice to anyone with video editing experience. In either ...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Yes, it's technically possible, but requires you have almost instant knowledge of: the fact a plane has crashed, the type of plane involved, the nature of the crash, access to a video shot of the same plane or type, etc. etc. It can be done, but I seriously doubt it can be done within one hour of a...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Simon at AVHerald is generally quite thorough and substantive in his reporting. If he has identified the videos as fakes, there would be no reason to distrust that, without other supporting evidence. Which there is none, that I can see. The video's authenticity has been verified by several independ...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

I’m not convinced the video is real either. I agree with Zeke. The fire looked faint and kind of hokey. I wouldn’t brag about the community of A.net. We just had a huge thread saying it is confirmed by a reliable source that DL was announcing SLC-ICN on Saturday. Never happened. I see more fake new...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

AntonioMartin wrote:

Could this be another pilot suicide??

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

NearMiss wrote:

Well, the video from inside the cabin showed flaps were down... probably a feathered left engine?

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

I have watched the interior video a few times now, and I swear I hear a metallic bang before they hit. I suspect there is more to this than just a stall. That is almost certainly the baggage in the bins shifting and loose items in the cabin flying loose as the wings go past 60 odd degrees bank. The...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Full video from inside here . Warning : might be disturbing. I'm afraid to ask, but what caused the movement after the phone initially came to rest? A few seconds after the fire is on the screen with the stick(?) In the foreground. I didn't think the cameraman would've held on to the phone the whol...

Re: MH370 trunnion door found off Madagascar

That’s the one thing that I can’t get my head around. I’d like to think that if a Russian or Chinese sub suddenly launched a ballistic or cruise missile from the middle of the Indian Ocean someone in the US military would notice. But here you have something many times that size in a completely unex...

Re: MH370 trunnion door found off Madagascar

Bombers and fighter planes disappeared in the desert during WWII. Relatively large vehicles for the time, often unpainted, so gleaming aluminium. Yet they were never found. Despite being on the surface and clearly visible. But they were usually off course, so no one was looking for them in the right...

Re: Ramp Worker Killed at MGM in accident

Such a tragic event. But not the first and likely not the last. Just a month or so ago, someone walked into the spinning prop of an AN-24 (or similar). Think it was in Russia, I could be wrong. Few years ago we had a ramp worker seen running and "diving" into an running engine on a 737 (Ja...

Re: MH370 trunnion door found off Madagascar

That’s what I’m thinking as well, however, if it is hypothetically confirmed that the recorders were starved of power because the breakers were tripped, then that should only confirm suspicions of deliberate action. Realistically, a deliberate act is the only way to explain what happened. The plane...

Re: MH370 trunnion door found off Madagascar

The odds of the FDRs surviving for this long are horrifically low.... Whoever did this was skilled and knowledgable enough disable one or both of the pilots and turn off the transponder, then fly the aircraft off into mystery. It is very likely they knew what circuit breakers to pull in order to di...

Re: TWA Flight 800 - Revisted

The FBI gave far more credence to eyewitness testimony, while the NTSB from long experience, was focusing on the technical evidence. And rightly so. How many times have we, simply as aviation fans, seen witnesses claim "it was on fire before it crashed"? Almost always. Even when video evi...

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

The problem w/ HA is that the captains tend to keep the seatbelt signs on for the majority of the flight so in my experience it's become the "boy that cries wolf." I recently flew HA, NH, and DL to/from Tokyo and it was noticable that HA captains turn the seatbelt sign on after a little b...

Re: Tatty TUI Dreamliners

I don't know why but Dreamliners generally don't age well. I recently flew B787 (Qatar Airways) and the whole interior looked quite worn out. I recently flew on an easyJet A320 and it was in a worn out state. The return flight was on a NEO with a broken seat beside me and some wall panels flapping ...

Re: Final Boeing 747 rolls out tonight December 6 2022

I've never known a world where 747s were not rolling out of the factory. It's going to be a strange one. I get the economics of it all and completely understand the decision to call it a day, it's just hard to say good bye to a favourite. I mourned the 757 when it's line closed. Now I mourn the 747.

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Polot wrote:

I mean at this point I think everyone recognizes that it was the result of pilot action (probably deliberate but will give benefit of doubt and say gross pilot error also possibility).

Re: Cyprus Airways unveils new livery

The tail is a marked improvement on the old livery. I fear the titles up front may me a smidge too lean and might not be entirely legible from afar.
shame they didn't paint the engine cowlings in that night mid green they use for "airways". I reckon that would really set the design off.

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

The silence on this situation is deafening. It's been months now and still no information released. The more they remain silent, the more people will make up their own minds. At some point that could be detrimental to Chinese aviation.

Re: British Airways new typeface ?

I certainly hope this doesn't mean a complete rebrand. That Speedmarque is beautiful and, in my opinion, timeless. And the Mylius font they use is very elegant. I am honoured to have a copy of it on my computer. Not sure I remember where I got it from though. Probably a project I did at some point t...

Re: British Airways had to find another plane

Welcome to the no-fly list!

Re: Icelanair seeks proposals for fleet replacement beyond 2024

In my opinion, this is very likely to be an Airbus order.

Boeing has nothing to offer in terms of a 757 replacement, the A321 in some variant is the only real choice.
As for the 767 replacement, it could go to the A330NEO if offered at an enticing enough price.

Airbus' order to lose methinks!

Re: N757AF gets fresh paint

I don't like Trump. But I cannot fault his choice of private jet. Would choose the same bird if I had that sort of cash.

Re: Air France, Airbus plead not guilty in AF447 crash trial

I've looked at length into the details of the crash. Imho it was a combination of poor pitot tube design by Airbus and poor airmanship by the pilots involved. The tech failure lead to the pilot error. Whether either Airbus or AF should be held criminally liable is an entirely different question. I'...

Re: The Times: Loganair for sale

Boeing74741R wrote:

Finally, I also suggest Googling ‘Ferguson Marine’.

Re: American Airlines orders Boom Overture aircraft

It's Concorde all over again. Airlines order it and market it.
But in the end, they will cancel when overland supersonic flight continues to be banned.

Re: Airline seats too small? The FAA may soon change that

My worries are not the seat pitch or width, but the width of aisles. As airlines cram in the thinner seats, aisle width is reducing at the same time. I have noticed this first hand on 777s. On a BA 777 with 9 abreast (back in 2017) I was able to walk up and down the aisle normally. On a subsequent A...

Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

WayexTDI wrote:

(I guess BA was 9ab then based on your comment).

Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

Remember all, 1 inch of seat width doesn’t matter if the ticket is cheap or the routing is more direct. This was quite often the message when Boeing’s narrower seats were implemented, so I’m hoping the message is consistent! For sure, to the mass unwashed SLF, they won't notice. They want value for...

Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

Similarly, a lot of (most?) airlines have gone 10ab on the 777s, DL stayed at 9ab . As have BA. Which is why I still fly them when I need to head over to Atlanta or Dallas. At least I did before the pandemic. Not sure what they're flying on those routes now that the A350 is in the fleet. Found myse...

Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

10x on a 777 is horrible. I'll never fly AA in Economy again if I can help it.
I can't imagine how 10x on an A350 will be like considering its a good portion of a seat width narrower than the 777!

Re: Heathrow Airport to limit departing passengers numbers until September 11th.

This comes after decades of poor pay, poor pay increases, poor working conditions, continued pressuring of staff to fit more duties into their already busy shifts as workforces are downsized, disgusting treatment of staff by management and the travelling public, all while benefits were slowly stripp...

Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

Sorry, but there is no comparison. ... Completely agree. The NTSB is not perfect, but they have certainly never held their punches when it comes to pointing blame and they have complete freedom to do so. China is demonstratively a very controlling country, micromanaging everything like every commun...