According to Swedish news media, it is the A320 Neo frames that are grounded. It may affect the A320 range or only the exact A320, not 100% clear from the news. In Swedish, no paywall: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sas-staller-in-18-flyg From SAS: https://www.sasgroup.net/newsroom/press-release...
Jump to postThe 747 taxied, sure, but so many things could still go wrong. It seems they were some 250 meters apart when the SAA A320 crossed the runway, not a lot when a 747 is charging at you, be it at 20, 29 or more knots. A runway is a runway, even if it is not at that moment in time used for takeoff or lan...
Jump to postSome more pax are (un)lucky enough to get more free flying hours. JetTime from Gran Canaria to Halmstad (JTD742) went around twice in 22 kts side wind (was 26022KT, now 25018G29KT) and then diverted to CPH, landing now. I personally would have loved the thrill, but I guess not that many onboard did....
Jump to postKL1179 had to go around on Thursday January 11th when on final approach to Linköping, due to proximity to a military aircraft (a Gripen). It seems to have happened 12:00 local time at about 1600 ft alt and about 5-6 km from touchdown. Aircraft was PH-EXT, an E195. After what seems to be a normal GA,...
Jump to postProblem with wireless is you'd need the antenna to survive and not be disrupted by whatever else is going on in such an emergency. Simpler to just have a wire based system. It's also "a lot simpler" to drive cars than flying airplanes ;) A wireless system can have multiple antennas (all n...
Jump to postMaybe all airports should have a rule prohibiting the use of a single runway with three or two holding points for taxiing. It's challenging to see in the dark at night, making it difficult to navigate. Daylight conditions are better for visibility, allowing pilots to see up to three holding points ...
Jump to postIndividual photos posted of the a/c that don’t show firefighting equipment present aren’t showing anything definitive that conclusions can be reasonably drawn from. ARFF trucks will quickly run out of water and have to return to station to refill. On large, complex incidents trucks may arrive to sc...
Jump to postThey did not evacuate SQ368 until after the fire crew had put the fire out. There are inherent risks to evacuations - people get injured on slides, and in the event of fire, opening a door in some situations may allow the smoke to enter, or send evacuating passengers into the blaze. Even when the p...
Jump to postHow many seconds before touchdown would the A350 crew have needed to initiate a go-around in order to pass over the Dash 8 safely? Not many, depending on your definition on "safely". Pilots will be able to tell more accurately, but one limiting factor is that the spoilers are normally dep...
Jump to postYou don't think the crew might stay on board for a bit longer to make sure nobody's left behind? As long as the fuselage is not burning inside, nothing wrong with doing an extra check to look for children and those that are not able to evacuate themselves? In fact, that's exactly what happened. The...
Jump to postThey did not evacuate SQ368 until after the fire crew had put the fire out. There are inherent risks to evacuations - people get injured on slides, and in the event of fire, opening a door in some situations may allow the smoke to enter, or send evacuating passengers into the blaze. Even when the p...
Jump to postDoes anyone have any ideas on why the pilot of the DHC thought he had clearence not only for entering the runway but also for commencing take-off? No, I think that will take some time to get out via the official channels. It may take months. It has been discussed in length in this thread, so just g...
Jump to postOne doesn't have to believe the media. It's a certification requirement. Any commercial aircraft certified to fly must be able to evacuate all occupants in 90 seconds or less with 50% of the emergency exits blocked. They literally and physically test this out on each aircraft. In one video that is ...
Jump to postCorrect, and why not repaired asap? Another hole in the cheese sequence. Because you can't repair everything within a few days. It depends on the fault and the availability of spare parts. If spare parts are required, which are not in stock at the airport, it can take several days just to get them....
Jump to postAt AVH it is reported that JAL said the evac was initiated by the "cockpit" and the two front slides were deployed. Due to intercom inop, the rear F/As were unable to get confirmation to open their slides. They took the initiative to do so themselves, opening the only safe one, which was 4...
Jump to postI'm sure this has been stated before, but it appears as though the fire at the front of the A350 the length of the runway was the nose landing gear dragging the starboard wing of the Dash 8. Port wing looks like it stayed with the Dash 8 and was the source of the major fire. I wonder if the starboa...
Jump to postMaybe that question was already asked before but the thread is very long so I couldn't find the info yet. Wouldn't it be possible to install some form of infrared cameras on planes able to scan at 360° if there's an obstacle invisible to the pilot and alert him/her accordingly soon enough to allow ...
Jump to postHere is someone's image superimposing an A350-390 and DHC-8-300. The damage on the A350's engine looks consistent with the height of the DHC-8 wings. https://twitter.com/AGeeknologist/status/1742330669160886515 Nice, thanks! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GC4AJ5uWsAA0izC?format=jpg&name=small The ...
Jump to postI really felt compelled to register after all the ADS-B and other ATC falsehoods, or at least half-truths being whirled around in here... Frankly, I'm still at a loss of words of how "basic" the slices of swiss cheese aligned in this case. Given some of the hairy tales and close shaves fr...
Jump to postAs a layman I would have assumed that a decision is usually made more quickly, so I am curious about expert knowledge. There's an article by NHK (in Japanese) that describes the course of the accident in chronological order. What surprises me is that JAL states that the evacuation was completed aft...
Jump to postAm I missing something or are there no wings or engines in that photo? I saw the video that I think that image was taken from and they never panned out wider so that you could see if there was more debris somewhere else. It also looked Dash might have been pushed forward when the collision occurred...
Jump to postAgain, compare the ARFF response in Asiana 214 and RedAir 203 to what you see here. You have -aggressive- attacks even during the passenger evacuations. In the Japanese incident, you literally had fire crews standing around with their hands in their pockets. There is NO fire suppression happening f...
Jump to postI'm reading a lot about how all the people at the airport were heroes... but 5 people still died and almost 400 people nearly died. It's fashionable to call people heroes... but still something went badly badly wrong. If everyone was a hero... then five families would not now be mourning lost ones ...
Jump to postAs a chemistry graduate, elemental lithium will self-ignite when placed in water, but what is in lithium batteries is far from elemental lithium. The compounds are stable, but the energy density of a lithium cell is high enough that damage can cause overheating which leads to further damage to neig...
Jump to postOnly the investigation will determine whose to blame, no, it will not. its not the point of the investigation to find out who to blame. Which investigation are you referring to? Surely there will be multiple investigations, one of which has the purpose of determining if a crime has been committed o...
Jump to postYou are correct, @D L X. I'm more interested in the aluminum-lithium alloy making up the parts of the plane. I could have sworn they used Al-Li as part of the fuselage using some sort of sandwiching technique, but given so many changes between the A350 and A350XWB, I've lost track. That was the ori...
Jump to postAre intersection departures the norm at HND? Wasn't US 1493 also an intersection departure related crash? At my airport, HAD, the taxiway from the terminal building connects to RWY 01 some 60 meters from the runway end. Still, the ATR72's I travel with actually track back some 40-50 meters before t...
Jump to postAgain, compare the ARFF response in Asiana 214 and RedAir 203 to what you see here. You have -aggressive- attacks even during the passenger evacuations. In the Japanese incident, you literally had fire crews standing around with their hands in their pockets. There is NO fire suppression happening f...
Jump to postEveryone is saying no casualties but I assume that applies to the JL plane and it is rather obvious that if the JCG plane was taxiing those on board that one perished? If you care to read any of the previous comments, you will discover things like this: "Update, 5 out of 6 crew of the coastal ...
Jump to postAnyone who has been in the cockpit can really attest to the fact that at night, it is totally possible to just not see an arriving aircraft even if it is only seconds away. I am not a pilot, but this sounds very unlikely to me. Landings are made with landing lights on, those are very bright. And of...
Jump to postA belly collision pancaking the Dash 3 would have been unsurvivable on impact, a nose collision like this would be survivable in certain circumstances. I will say an event like this would not be survivable on a takeoff or with anything larger than a Dash 3. Out of curiosity, what would've made the ...
Jump to postNews reporting JAL 516 from Sapporo hit Coast Guard aircraft during landing. 367 pax all got out as far as I can understand. MA722 from JCG was involved. Thank God, hopefully no terrible news from here..The aircraft stood it's ground and allowed all to evacuate (hopefully), that's what a safe aircr...
Jump to postIndeed, the fire response has clearly struggled here ... but keep in mind there were two planes to rescue. The main priority was likely to make the surroundings of the A350 as safe as possible to ensure a quick and safe evacuation. Saving what remains of the plane is just bonus, and with a second p...
Jump to postSo glad that everybody got off the plane! I do find it curious that the evacuation seems to be taking a huge amount of time. Looking at the Youtube feed, it seemed to be taking forever. Not knowing anything about the conditions inside, it would be wrong to speculate, but considering that the plane ...
Jump to postBoavida wrote:I guess Haneda ATC has some explaining to do....
The fire was possibly from the fuel on the coast guard aircraft being sprayed on impact. Yes, that was very apparent in the video I saw. All of a sudden just after touchdown, the entire fuselage was engulfed in flames. My guess is that they rammed the Coat Guard Dash 8-300 head on.and got their ful...
Jump to postSunclass A330 flight DK840 ARN-HRG (Hurgada) diverting to CPH. Does anyone know why? They diverted as they reached the Polish coastline. They joined the normal landing pattern for rwy 04R so not the worst emergency I guess.
Jump to postSo the million-£ question is, what did the driver, when the fire started? Did he just stop the car and ran away and didn't try to extinguish the fire? Running for your life would be the general advise in such a situation. Smoke from a burning vehicle will kill you in minutes, and potentially after ...
Jump to postLand on nearest suitable airport gets a new meaning. They may even have had a hard time locating Glasgow in the initial phase. If they lost the door where the speed drops a little just before the descent, they were literally over the runway of GLA. I do hope no one got hit by the door!
Jump to postThere is no need to demonstrate the autocannon, just fly close enough to send increasingly intense wake(!)up calls (as in wake turbulence). An intercepting jet can be relieved by a chopper when it arrives, which would be ideal, but I have no idea how it’s done in pracice. Our Swedish Gripens can sus...
Jump to postI can't seem to be able to reach avherald.com from my location. I have tried several different connections but they all fail. The primary DNS server flr the domain (dns.nomissoft.com) seems down, but the secondary (dss.nomissoft.com) is up and is responding to DNS queries so the A record lookup to 6...
Jump to postAnyone happen to know what the source of the hydrogen was (e.g., solar) and will the Dash 8 eventually have the other engine converted? Another decarbonization step forward. What difference does the source of the hydrogen make? This is a huge, huge step in itself. Others work on producing hydrogen ...
Jump to postWow, so incredibly sad. I have never worked at an airport or around aircraft like this so I don't have the slightest clue, but is it possible that a human adult can be sucked into an engine at idle power (assuming it was at idle)? Even if it can, I'd imagine you'd literally have to walk right up to...
Jump to postWhy is "electric flying" always assumed to be equal to battery driven aircraft? Hydrogen fuel cells is just one other option, and perhaps the one most likely to compete with oil driven aircraft. Perhaps "Lucy" is battery driven. The article doesn't say. It's just saddening to rea...
Jump to postAccording to CNN, it happened on Friday: "An earlier version of this story gave the wrong day for when the object fell out of a plane. It was Friday." The witness says it was 7 x 5 inches and all greasy. He noted it was heavy when he picked it up and it sounded like metal when it rolled af...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:Western727 wrote:A minor detail surprised me, though: why were the flaps extended on the rwy and not before? I'd rather know sooner if my flaps aren't working.
I dunno but these big Russian planes do long run ups on the runway
can a door be opened at all at cruise? i presume the pressure differential is the key factor, but can the lever be moved? Cockpit door! No 'pressure differential', but he wasn't going to get an armored, locked cockpit door open. Well, in the referenced article, "exterior door" is mentione...
Jump to postHe was offered 'equipment', as in ARFF i take it, but declined. I think that NORCAL should have sent it anyway if there was time enough, which seems to have been the case. Are there specific procedures stating that the pilot needs to request that?
Jump to postThey must have had an order for that specific component or they stole some randonm piece of equipment that looked expensive and hoped to be able to sell it. If they did have an "order", who could be the customer? Installing a component of doubtful origin would be a no-go in most corners of...
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