Another almost forgotten no-engines crash landing in a field is flight OS 111, an Austrian Fokker 70 near Munich in 2004: https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 20040105-0.
Jump to postMy suggestion for a fare policy avoiding hidden cities: You buy a ticket that entitles you to fly from A to B, leaving A no earlier that a specified start time and arriving at B no later than a specified arrival time. As long as these conditions are met, the airline may put you on any flight or fli...
Jump to postMy suggestion for a fare policy avoiding hidden cities: You buy a ticket that entitles you to fly from A to B, leaving A no earlier that a specified start time and arriving at B no later than a specified arrival time. As long as these conditions are met, the airline may put you on any flight or flig...
Jump to postThe helicopter belonging to the owner of Leicester City Football Club that crashed a couple of days ago had registration G-LCFC. Wikipedia states that 'since the 1970s personalised ("out of sequence") registrations are available using any four-letter combination'. How frequently are such p...
Jump to postAVH comments should be taken with a pinch of salt. It's amazing that whenever there's an incident that there's a significant amount of comments from people claiming to be on flights. Of course they should. Nevertheless, I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of this particular poster. Obviously, so...
Jump to postSaturday morning, a security breach caused Terminal 2 at MUC to be closed for several hours and 200 flights to be cancelled. It's hard to gather from the various media reports what really happend, but apparently a passenger walked through security without being checked, probably quite unintentionall...
Jump to postI wonder if she actually knew it was explosive when she took it? Unexploded WWII bombs are things Europeans deal with on a regular basis so I'm sure you're all familiar with the dangers, but it's probably not the sort of thing a typical American would have seen before. She might have assumed it was...
Jump to postAn American tourist found a WW II relic in the Austrian alps and wanted to take it home as a souvenir. Not a very bright idea ... Thankfully, the Austrian authorities have to deal with WW II UX (unexploded ordnance) on an almost daily basis, so they know how to handle it. It seems she had taken the ...
Jump to postInteresting, especially since they've just added HKG back to their network. Maybe we will see a new destination (there have always been talks about South Africa or Mexico-City) instead and besides the additional flights to NYC, ORD and PEK. "Starting 27 October Austrian Airlines will commence ...
Jump to postMore flights to New York, Chicago, Beijing. Unprofitable connections will be dropped (Hong Kong, Colombo, Havana, Isfahan, Shiraz):
https://www.austrianairlines.ag/Press/P ... sc_lang=en
Who else except the US, Australia and NZ bans all fruit? Apparently the EU doesn't. They have some restrictions on meat, diary and fish products, but apples from the US, or Singapore, should be fine.
Jump to postA few months ago I flew on Austrian, I forget where, and afterwards completed an online customer satisfaction survey. The last question was something like "Do you have any suggestions what we can do to further improve customer satisfaction?" I answered "Get rid of myAustrian completel...
Jump to postThere's a reason why companies all around the world are paying millions of dollars to these design agencies. I'm sure there is, but nevertheless most of us can't help feeling schadenfreude when these highly paid experts screw up, as they sometimes do. The myAustrian debacle has been mentioned - rem...
Jump to postKarelXWB wrote:HX #4 should be flying home today.
1.l.1 The Forum Moderators reserve the right to delete any post containing bad grammar, spelling errors or any post that we find difficult to understand. Please use a spell checker prior to posting. This sounds a bit harsh on non-native English speakers. Bad grammar shouldn't be treated the same wa...
Jump to postHave a search for yourself for the mathematical proof of mutually exclusive independent events and you will see that the probability is zero. Well, if you search for "mutually exclusive independent events" you'll find nothing, because such events do not exist. This is a contradiction in t...
Jump to postSurprised no one has brought this up yet but you better believe those passengers and crew were really glad they were on a 4 engine aircraft. Long live 4 Engines 4 Long Haul! (3 works too) So does 2, possibly even better. Having more engines increases the chance of an uncontained engine failure. And...
Jump to postSo why is this all over the news? This does not sound very spectacular to me. Did some scare-mongerer publish a story "they are all going to crash", and everybody else copied it? I would not say the flightglobal article is scare mongering. It sounds mostly factual. But this one is: http:/...
Jump to postSo why is this all over the news? This does not sound very spectacular to me. Did some scare-mongerer publish a story "they are all going to crash", and everybody else copied it?
Jump to postAccording to Bild Zeitung, not the most reliable of sources, the opening of BER is expected in autumn 2019 at the earliest.
http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/flugh ... .bild.html
Checked baggage is handled at ground level (i.e. that's where it comes out of the plane). Therefore it makes sense to have baggage claim on the same level to save the not inconsiderable energy it would require to move baggage up a floor (and then inconvenience people having to take it down again). ...
Jump to postWithout insider information, we can infer practically nothing from just one data point. The outage may have been caused by incompetence, cost cutting, outsourcing, insufficient redundancy, inadequate testing of failover and disaster recovery procedures, or just bad luck. For all we know, BA may have...
Jump to postAs always, a less than perfect ARFF response gets much more attention than an excellent one. United 232 comes to mind, where the emergency services were highly praised and probably saved many lives. In the case of Saudia 163, the investigation report states that the firefighters did their best, but ...
Jump to postIn risk management, whenever some measure is undertaken to mitigate a known risk, you have to ask: (1) Does this measure introduce new risks? (2) Does it influence the assessment (probability, gravity) of other known risks? In this case, we are dealing with very rare events. This means that (1) the ...
Jump to postanshabhi wrote:This is racism. One against the Spanish aircraft, because I think it's a privilege to get escorted by fighters...
Is MSN107 still unpainted? If so I think this is the first time we will have seen an unpainted A350 take to the skies. Yep. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2812/33574772130_98dc270eee_z.jpg First flight msn107 F-WZGC 10/4/2017 by A380_TLS_A350 , on Flickr Is this the new one-wing variant? Either the ...
Jump to post1961 plane crash of UN secretary Dag Hammarskjöld (probably shot down)
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash killing president Lech Kaczyński
[ What has always troubled me is how quickly the local law enforcement people came to a determination that this was a suicide. That annoyed me quite a lot as well. Suicide has all the makings of a claim that is supposed to rid the airline and aircraft manufacturer of blame. The pilot can't even def...
Jump to postSomeone please tell the low cost airlines that are adding transatlantic capacity about the US travel hassles. Those low cost airlines are adding capacity from Europe , not from countries that are affected by the US travel bans. You will probably find that US airlines would be suffering a drop in bo...
Jump to postThey could hire some Spanish consultants, they have experience with building unused airports in the middle of nowhere.
Jump to postIt might not be a row of houses but a petrol pump just across the road from RWY 23 in YYZ!! Sure it has the jet blast barricade and fence but could it be a disaster waiting to happen. Check any landing pics into RWY 23 in YYZ. Don't you think you're taking this too far? "A disaster waiting to ...
Jump to postATC: The second the pilots mention "we are in... emergency", the controller sprung into immediate action. I think she did everything by the book or better... Many ATC recordings, especially when pilots declare in such a roundabout way, delay reactions by confirm they are declaring an emer...
Jump to postQuestion: Can anyone confirm me if on the FDR it's stored/displayed if fuel is being thrown out of the plane for an emergency landing? The RJ85 doesn't have fuel dumping capabilities. I see, but in other aircraft that does have the capabilities, is it displayed? The FDR does not display anything, i...
Jump to postCan't believe this aircraft is still missing In 2012, an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific, leaving a pumice raft the size of a small country (Israel is often mentioned for comparison). And nobody noticed for a couple of weeks. It's easy to lose the sense of proportion how big and des...
Jump to postLegally a person is alive until pronounced deceased, this will normally only happen when the passenger arrives at hospital. Passengers are not permitted in the isle, or toilets during takeoff and landing by law. They should be placed in a seat with a seat belt on. I don't know about Russia, but usu...
Jump to postI'm pretty sure you'll be able to fly a brand new Chinese designed and built jet within the next 20 years.
Jump to postSo, math would say then a twin is thusly twice as safe as a quad by virtue of having only two engines that could fail instead of four that could throw shrapnel. Sure, uncontained engine failures will occur twice as often on quads, but a quad will only be in serious trouble if an uncontained failure...
Jump to postData for VIE from 2004 to 2016: http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/ ... i_2016.xls
Jump to postDelta Air Lines will get this fixed, seems like the system is already coming back up. Do not believe there is anyway to test in real time a system that has to be running 24/7. They can simulate failures, but to induce a complete system failure would be risky. Could really mess things up and crazy t...
Jump to postThe website says the Fokker 130 will have entry-into-service in five years. They can leave this unchanged forever.
Jump to postFlyingsottsman wrote:My niece is on Singapore airlines to Istanbul and got a call this morning from my mother to say that her flight has been tuned back to Singapore, not sure how far into the flight they go before they had to turn back?
In a few minutes, A6-EEW will be back in Dubai from the first scheduled A380 flight to VIE.
https://www.austrianwings.info/2016/07/ ... -emirates/
The new site is not terrible in every respect. For one, I can actually read the forums on my iPhone, which I had basically given up on with the old site. You don't have to lock a thread when it gets to 200 posts because it's "too long" any more. Threads can be moved to different forums wi...
Jump to postSome issues I'm facing: ⋅ On my desktop, I see two symbols at the top right, a bell and my Avatar. On my Samsung tablet there is only one list symbol. When I click this list symbol nothing whatsoever happens. What is this? Non-responsive design? Also it seems silly to replace two smallish ...
Jump to postI try to figure out how many people are in the air aboard commercial airliners at any given time. Obviously there will be seasonal variations and daily variations, and long-term trends. Because areas of high flying activity are spread over many timezones the daily variations are somewhat dampened. M...
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