Re: Climate Change - Is aviation heading for a slump?

The industry could be facing a contraction due to climate change, but not due to anybody voluntarily changing their habits - it would be due to climate going off the rails and increasingly challenging operational conditions caused by extreme weather events if anything. This would look like the 'deat...

Re: Why weren’t the A330s not grounded after the pitot tube issues?

]If we are revisiting lack of grounding, I'm surprised the RR 777s werent grounded after BA 038. The issue with the FOHE was dangerous The cause of BA038 was something of a mystery initially, took some time to establish cause, and required careful examination of the evidence, wreckage, and testing ...

Re: New start-up Air Ayiti

This is a real operation - the satire writes itself in this instance. Fact is, somebody is throwing money at this idea, and has been since at least 1997 per FAA and DOT history, , and whoever is backing it has no idea what the heck they're doing. Reminds me, almost, of a slightly more serious "...

Re: AA300 JFK-LAX Hits object on takeoff!

Simply going with my gut here: a guess as to what happened is possibly a wake turbulence encounter - they hit the wingtip vortices from the previous departure. Does anyone know what departed before them?

Re: WN putting the MAX8 in storage at Victorville,Ca.

.. and I'm very much looking forward to the photos of the MAXs like these: 5400733 5278571 Why are you looking forward to it? It's photogenic. The Southwest livery looks great against a desert backdrop. The photos of the aircraft in storage will be beautiful. I might go out to VCV myself to try to ...

Re: WN putting the MAX8 in storage at Victorville,Ca.

WN positioning the aircraft into VCV is a very smart move - cheap storage is available there, plus good maintenance is available on site for the upgrades/fixes whenever Boeing gets their act together and gets something certified. Keeping the MAXs parked at major airports incurs expensive parking fee...

Re: A 777-300 freighter in the future?

While there is certainly enough feedstock for a 77W based freighter conversion, much has been made about the carbon fiber cabin floor not being strong enough for cargo operations - that it would need to be retrofitted. This would make the cost of conversion prohibitive. I haven't heard much news abo...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Aircraft stalled. Too low to the ground to recover. Weather a factor. Looks so much like other stall with vertical dives..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-hOBoJTOA https://baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-boeing-737-53a-kazan-50-killed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri7BYZwKINU https://www.youtube....

Re: SAA pilot fired for faking ATP for over 20 years

It should be noted that he did hold a valid Commercial Pilot License - the distinction here is that he did not hold an Airline Transport Pilot license. Apparently he was hired as a First Officer for SAA with the CPL in place, but SAA policy requires that new hires obtain their ATP license within 5 y...

Re: Hawaiian flight cancels after 3 departure attempts

According to the article, it got airborne twice and returned for two unrelated events. It pushed back a third time, and returned to the gate before they cancelled the flight and rebooked the passengers.

Re: First AA A321-253NX delivered

Beautiful bird... 253NX? The 5 designator is for the CFM LEAP, yes? And I haven't seen the X designation yet... any idea what that signifies? I'll take the opportunity to ask - is there a good reference anywhere for a comprehensive guide to decode the different Airbus 'codes' for the types? I found ...

Re: JAL 787 skids off runway at Narita

spacecadet wrote:

Seems to be an odd brown patch ahead of the wings - what is that?

Re: FR - gear strut penetrates wing during retraction

There was a pertinent quote on AVHerald that I'm posting below as it seems this individual knows what they're talking about: It appears that the Beam Hanger disconnected from the Beam Hanger Fitting. On a 4 month aircraft, my first suspicion is assembly error at the Beam Hanger to Hanger Fitting joi...

Re: Emirates is exploring switching the Airbus A380 to A350

Could it be that EK is taking EY’ A350s? Just a theory, if the owner of EY, the government of Abu Dhabi, asked the owner of EK, the government of Dubai, to bail them out of the order, it would not be the first time the two governments work together, of course. Just a thought. When I saw the thread ...

Re: Adria Airways (JP) signs LOI for 15 Superjets

The SSJ must be quite capital-light to acquire. I don’t think the SSJ is inherently a bad aircraft and is clearly a lot cheaper to acquire than competitors. Reliability is a huge problem and that is hugely expensive. If I recall correctly, the CEO of Interjet stated that their entire SSJ fleet cost...

Re: Likelihood of a A350-700 and A350-800?

The A330NEO will continue to be Airbus' 'horse' in the medium-large airliner segment. They have more than enough orders to justify continued production, plus, the replacement cycle for the older A333s is just beginning. They've got a solid product in the A330NEO that, tentatively, appears to exceed ...

Re: Norweigan 737 Max Diverts to Shiraz, Iran

There won’t be much of an issue. ~15 years ago a NW DC-10 actually had an emergency diversion to Tehran. They were still able to get things checked out and pay for fuel (I think diversion was a false alarm). Plane and passengers got out. Northwest Flight 41, with a cargo bay fire alarm issue. Yes, ...

Re: Another PW engined A320 neo has smoke in cabin emergency

I have some old stats I found regarding PW failures on the Neos....from an AVHerald report. These stats come from India's DGCA: http://avherald.com/h?article=4a4bb10d&opt=0 A320 neo aircraft with P & W 1100 G engines had series of failures with their operations after their induction worldwid...

Re: Site certificate expiration issue?

Fantastic. Thanks for the heads up!

Site certificate expiration issue?

Hi guys, when I went to load the forum up today, Chrome warned me that the certificate for Airliners.net had expired. I've looked at the certificate data, and indeed the expiration date of the certificate seems to be November 19, 2018, and valid from August 21, 2018. I'm hoping you guys already know...

Re: Why hasn't UA deployed 77W on the longest 77E routes?

although I heard that UA was paying Boeing to raise the MTOW on them (a paperwork change of some sort). How do you raise the MTOW on a plane? Essentially it's mostly a paperwork and certification thing. The plane is certified by the manufacturer for a certain payload. It is already built to do it. ...

Re: Why hasn't UA deployed 77W on the longest 77E routes?

UA has two tranches of 77E's - the pmCO aircraft, and the pmUA aircraft. The pmCO aircraft are all the highest thrust and MTOW variants of the 77E with all the upgrades and bells and whistles. Not so much for the pmUA birds, although I heard that UA was paying Boeing to raise the MTOW on them (a pap...

Re: Will Iran Air still take delivery of Airbus aircraft?

smartplane wrote:

That's not how it works. Every business and individual trading with, or providing services to the 'shell' would be tainted. For ever.

Re: Will Iran Air still take delivery of Airbus aircraft?

What do you think the US is stupid? Yes. As it pertains to IR getting aircraft (seems my substantive factual informational post about how Iranian airlines have gotten around aircraft embargoes has disappeared, I have to retype the whole thing), hypothetically, if TK were to take delivery of the air...

Re: LAX- Dash 8 and United 737 incident

xxcr wrote:

any news on that 737, any major damage? or just a cowling replacement

Re: Atlas Air bends a 767

The 767 has a particular weakness in this area Vietnam Airlines 2000 https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20000919-0 Thomson Airways 2010 https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20101003-0 Best Regards CROSSWIND Crosswind, thanks for compiling the list. It's interesting to ...

Re: Black Box Replacement

ACARS data may not be the silver bullet, but it is how we figured out what happened to AF447 before the wreckage was located and black boxes recovered. After we got the AF447 DFDR and CVR, we just got confirmation of what had already been suspected by the investigators. Regarding real time data -her...

Re: Drone flies close to A380

What is the chance this video is digitally enhanced, in part or in full? In other words, what is the chance it is not real? I was looking at the sunlight transition effect towards the middle and the end of the video on the aircraft, and I am wondering whether the aircraft was digitally added in? Th...

Re: Drone flies close to A380

32andBelow wrote:

SPREE34 wrote:

It's just a matter of time.

Till what? A DJI bounces off a plane and no one notices except the drone owner who now needs a new drone.

Re: Drone flies close to A380

An operation like this could be approved by a civil aviation authority when done for PR purposes and appropriate precautions are taken, including the bit where the flight crew knows where the drone is . But not with passengers are aboard. I did say that this sort of activity can't be condoned. Peri...

Re: Drone flies close to A380

Here's a link to the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo39UcZU28 Personally, I don't think this particular drone shot was a particular flight safety issue. Clearly the drone operator was keeping a close watch on the plane, and should the plane have begun turning toward it, the dron...

Re: British Airways cancelled my flight because holes in plane after lightning strike

Lightning strikes have taken planes down in the past - and forced airworthiness directives to refit planes with more robust protection. Pan Am flight 214 was a 707-121 that was struck by lighting in late 1963. This caused a fuel tank explosion and disintegration of the wing. Probable Cause: Lightnin...

Re: Aircraft types without any preserved examples

Most of the flying boats are long gone - Boeing 314, Martin M-130, Sikorsky S-42, etc... they're all gone. Which is a shame, but by the same token, but with the explosion of runways for land aircraft after the war, there was no need for them and at that point, no real drive for historical preservati...

Re: Delta ejects passengers over airplane mode spat

Cellphones are not an issue for airplanes. I'll relay a short little story. I have a very good friend who flies for a regional United Express affiliate, and one day a few months ago, his phone butt dialed me. I heard some chatter and was able to hear some conversation pretty clearly that sounded lik...

Re: Emirates looking to Windowless planes [BBC]

For a medium/large widebody (787/A350) I'd estimate the cumulative weight savings from removing windows would be at least 10t OEW. Now that portable/integrated camera solutions are of 'sufficient' quality that tradeoff becomes more enticing by the month. EK has the clout to at least make A&B gi...

Re: arriving after 23:00 in Frankfurt main

find themselves landing at Hahn when they arrive late and that will give the pilots motivation to arrive on time. I can just see the BFU Accident Report published sometime in 2026 after some airline's anxious drivers ram their plane into the ground at FRA because they were too motivated to battle t...

Re: China Airlines announces TPE-ONT service

I can make it to LAX in 45 minutes from Upland with no traffic. Hardly ever the case tho. It would not be 1 hour 30 minutes with no traffic like previous poster said. I can make it in 45 minutes, too from Claremont, assuming there's no traffic on the freeways and I set my cruise control at 90mph an...

Re: DOT Fines Qantas - Cabotage Violations

LAXintl wrote:

QF argument is they were following a 1959 C.A.B. decision and that since passengers were leaving the U.S. anyhow it would be OK selling the codeshare service even if operated by others.

Re: HiFly NOT adding second hand A380s?

Perhaps they have filled the A380 positions already? I can imagine that a new A380 operator would have people from the established operators willing to jump through whatever hoops were necessary to join the operation and get them up and running using the institutional knowledge they have already. I ...

Re: CI Disappointed with NZ Skycouch (Family Couch)

Eh, I'd be comfortable... but I'm quite small, and my usual sleep position is in the fetal anyway... so I think this thing would work wonderfully for me. But I realize that 115 pound/52 kilo paraplegics are a very small minority of the market. I don't see the point of ponying up for business class w...