Re: Age in Airliners.net time?

Officially 17 years but I'm reading a.net since 2000. I've been here for more than 20 years and I hate when a valuable contributor stops posting. We're left to wonder what happened to him. Agreed - a "where are they now?" thread would be interesting. I know a couple former members and why ...

Re: Why is filming airlines from some countries so rare?

I know that filming isn't allowed in China, ... At least in Beijing there is kind of a park in the final approach zone close to Terminal 3. You can find a lot of videos taken from that place on YouTube. Of course, you won’t find such videos from provincial airports in China. Most provincial airport...

Re: South Vietnam AF aircraft in HCMC in 2004(!?)

SGN won't go anywhere. And yes, the new airport will mainly handle international ops. Antares! I was actually hoping that you would join the discussion. Do you have an idea where the C-119 comes from? Since there is no C-119 in any museum in VN I assume this aircraft has been stored in an hangar or...

Re: Austrian A320neo hits jetbridge

A brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...

Re: Austrian A320neo hits jetbridge

A brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...

Re: South Vietnam AF aircraft in HCMC in 2004(!?)

FYI, Vietnam is trying to build a new airport outside of Saigon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Thanh_International_Airport Not sure if they will keep this airport for domestic uses. Property price being what it is, most likely this airport will be gone in a decade. bt SGN won't go anywhere. ...

Re: South Vietnam AF aircraft in HCMC in 2004(!?)

Thank you for your replies! I don’t know, but in 2011-ish, the revetments were still there at Tan San Nhut Yes, the revetments are still there. But now there are only Antonovs left. There are photos on Flikr showing the C-130s (and a CH-47 and a C-119 and an AC-47) present there in 2013. On other so...

Re: Japan to unveil next generation passenger plane

Mitsubishi didn't learn their lesson? Anyway, good luck, it's their money to loose Yeah. Sure. https://www.aeroflap.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Spacejet-M90-scrapperd-Wade-Sackett-1024x683.jpg Source: https://www.aeroflap.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Spacejet-M90-scrapperd-Wade-Sackett-1...

Re: LH747 LHR to FRA this morning.

When taxiing to the runway at about 10pm I saw an LH 747 with a lot of emergency vehicles around it.

Re: Airbus A350 Production / Deliveries - 2024

How comes that no one posts pictures of the individual airframes as for example in the A32X- or the 737-production threads?

South Vietnam AF aircraft in HCMC in 2004(!?)

I stumbled across this picture which shows a variety of South Vietnam AF aircraft in the background: 0514792 This picture has been taken in 2004, so almost thirty years after the collapse of South Vietnam (!). What happened to all of these C-130s? You can find captured aircraft in almost every provi...

Re: Vietnam Airlines (VN) News and Discussion - 2024

Antaras wrote:

With Điện Biên (DIN) was just upgraded into a bigger airport and now able to handle A321 ops

Re: MU5735 crash investigation report after two years

The CAAC pointed out that the case is "very complicated and rare..." Wonder what that could mean... Considering they ruled out many factors such as weather, technical malfunction, maintenance error, and pilot error. The “very complicated” part is how do the powers that be spin this, as ap...

Re: MU5735 crash investigation report after two years

If one of the pilot committed suicide, the investigation needs to find out why he decided to kill himself. Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc. And the problem is that if there are no traces, notes, witness reports, medical exams or any event that could lead someone to depress...

Re: MU5735 crash investigation report after two years

The CAAC pointed out that the case is "very complicated and rare..." Wonder what that could mean... Considering they ruled out many factors such as weather, technical malfunction, maintenance error, and pilot error. The “very complicated” part is how do the powers that be spin this, as ap...

Re: I was “that guy” with three carry on bags….

The fascination with carry-on is fascinating, I’m going on the 2-day trip to CLT next month, checking my bag. It’s far enough enough to drag it from the cab to the counter. Not sure why you would call it a fascination! It’s more like a time-saver. I’d rather have 45 minutes to do other things than ...

Re: I was “that guy” with three carry on bags….

Was it an acoustic guitar? Then you could have even used the space of the acoustic body. You were told that you needed to bring your guitar after you passed security?. New FAA directive: at least three passengers on every Boeing 737 MAX must carry with them a musical instrument. In the likely event ...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2024

Will fly LH on Friday. My daily review of the various strikes tells me that I will be lucky but can anyone please confirm? :-/ Thursday is the last day of strikes. So you should be okay. Thanks for your feedback. But I‘m not okay because: At HAJ, DTM, NRN, DRS, LEJ there will be a strike of the sec...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2024

Will fly LH on Friday. My daily review of the various strikes tells me that I will be lucky but can anyone please confirm? :-/

Re: LA800 flight SYD-AKL in flight uncontrolled descent

The press for Boeing has been bad enough lately but this information appeared on CNN's website under the headline "Boeing Is In Big Trouble". According to this passenger, the pilot told him that the "gauges kind of went blank on him." LATAM is describing it as a "technical ...

Re: Former Global Crossing Chief to start Florida based A220 airline: Air Flo

airlinepeanuts wrote:

Can someone explain to us non-Germans the significance of “Air Flo”?

Re: Former Global Crossing Chief to start Florida based A220 airline: Air Flo

Air Flo? Let‘s hope they will not fly to Germany or Austria. Would have problems to sit in a seat of an Air Flo aircraft. :-/

Re: 10 Years Ago Today: MH370

The most frustrating of is that even if they find the wreckage, I guess they won’t be able to draw many conclusions from that wreckage.

Re: Aer Lingus 707 Last Flight Video, 1988

I was not able to read the registration in that video. Surely somebody here knows. And who bought it? They mention it's St. Canice, which was EI-ASO, and it looks like it crashed on 21 March 1989 with Transbrasil as flight 801, registered PT-TCS. It was EI-ASO which was also the 707 in the Airport ...

Re: Aer Lingus 707 Last Flight Video, 1988

I was not able to read the registration in that video. Surely somebody here knows. And who bought it?

Re: First Time You Flew on an A320?

So, when was the first time you flew on an A320? I ask because I first flew on a NW A320 in August 1990 from DCA-MSP. NW had very recently acquired the type and to my knowledge no other US carriers were flying the A320 at the time. Any folks out there on an A320 in that era? Rather late after EIS i...

An American (C-130) in Paris…

Recently I found this article of an USAF C-130 being towed through the middle of Paris and thought it would be worth sharing: http://www.usaf317thvet.org/towarticle.htm The fuselage was from an aircraft damaged at Evreux and was repaired at Spangdahlem air base by using the remainings of two other C...

Re: Singapore Airshow 2024 (20-25th February)