To my knowledge, the longest domestic flight in Europe might something along the lines of CTA-TRN (if such a flight even exists), and that’s less than 600NM. The longest theoretical domestic flight I’ve been able to guess at, would be MMA-KRN at 763NM. But no service exists between those two airpor...
Jump to postVery strange story, a Titan A321N on a repositioning flight from Stansted to Orlando return after losing 3 windows with damage to the horizontal stabiliser. It had just been in maintenance. The damage to the horizontal stabiliser was likely caused by the windows hitting it, but how the windows blew ...
Jump to postThe chopping up of the plane may have been done in light of the lack of spare parts. Cannibalising an existing plane (that would cost a lot to fix and fly out, even if technically possible) might be more attractive. Of course that would imply the quickest accident investigation in history...
Jump to postThey were about to reinstate it late 2020, had it not been for Covid .
Jump to postHello everyone, I am curious to know if there is an International Airport with multiple runways, which are at noticeable different altitude (in example, more than 200 ft difference between runways). I suppose not, because the higher runway would be a massive ground obstacle for aircraft using the l...
Jump to postYou obviously haven't spent any time in Lagos!!! Many years ago, a chain link fence was installed. It was stolen shortly after it was installed. Just a normal day in Nigeria, Ha! True, I have never been there, but from what I've read, such events would indeed not be beyond the realm of possibility....
Jump to postYou obviously haven't spent any time in Lagos!!! Many years ago, a chain link fence was installed. It was stolen shortly after it was installed. Just a normal day in Nigeria, Ha! True, I have never been there, but from what I've read, such events would indeed not be beyond the realm of possibility.
Jump to posthttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66168466
Not quite clear what happened, but it seems that whilst one runway (the shorter of the two presumably) was closed for several months, its lighting was stolen, and it's not exactly clear when this happened.
Has this ever happened before anywhere??
I just read in the relevant thread that the A321XLR has a very high wing loading: I did some back of the napkin math, and the XLR will have a very high wing loading at MTOW, on the order of 165-168 lb/sq ft. This is nearly the highest wing loading of any twin engine commercial airliner, which I calc...
Jump to postIf you check on FR24, the same flight already diverted back to SIN (after flying for 11 minutes only, must have been an overweight landing), right before the HNL flight. Something must have been wrong with it.
Jump to postI remember seeing it - for a split second - flying above Amsterdam, northwest of the centre so with all engines still attached, and thinking "that plane flies rather low", but as I wasn't that familiar with how high planes normally fly over that part of town, I didn't think more of it. Abo...
Jump to postSeems that after the presumed hypoxia event, the plane flew its programmed waypoints until right before CGN. It overflew CGN and then stayed on its last pre-CGN heading until running out of fuel. Just guessing, but maybe the initial right turn near Latvia was due to one engine flaming out initially,...
Jump to postA question: the maximum altitude that a plane can achieve depends (mostly) on the wings, i.e. the coffin corner is determined by the wing shape. But what aspect of the wing shape determines this maximum altitude? Is it the chord, the camber? And how (im)possible would it be to "upgrade" an...
Jump to postI think the OP might be referring to the significant anhedral, not the pitch angle of the stabiliser. At a guess, that would be to keep it out of the engine exhaust. Just for clarity - the tailplane is mounted high on top of the fin as a 'T' tail and has no (discernible) anhedral. Is it possible yo...
Jump to postAn update on this incident, apparently a reverser opened when TOGA was applied, extremely dangerous situation On Apr 15th 2022 the HCL reported the captain decided to initiate a go around, upon applying TOGA one thrust reverser inadvertently opened causing control problems during the go around. htt...
Jump to postHow does a plane lose the trailing edge of a winglet in cruise?! Since whatever did that likely also cause the crash (the probability of losing the winglet and crashing for different, completely unrelated, reasons is so small we may well discard it I think) I wonder what event could cause this? Sepa...
Jump to postGranular data is now available at https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/china-eastern-airlines-flight-5735-crashes-en-route-to-guangzhou/ https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MU5735-final-150-seconds-Altitude-Speed-Vertical-Rate-Chart-1200x868.png That chart is a bit sloppy fr...
Jump to posthttps://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/11/30/schiphol-wilde-geen-enquete-onder-klagend-grondpersoneel-2-a4067321 (in Dutch only) The Dutch aviation regulator ILT investigated ramp incidents (such as aircraft getting damaged by ground vehicles bumping in to them) at AMS, and the willingness of ground staff t...
Jump to postThe arc positions remain valid though - would this data be consistent with the arcs?
Jump to postMAD-BCN lost a lot of traffic to HSR, as well as PAR-LON presumably. BRU-AMS and BRU-CDG are feeders only these days. And what about Milan-Rome? Arguably ENS suffered from a new direct rail link to AMS that opened in 1993 (not HSR though), that may have contributed to its demise. On the other hand, ...
Jump to postBoeing ODA unit employees claim they face undue pressure:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-to-rev ... 1629773352
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... by-u-s-faa
Before reading the attached article I was convinced this would be about the severe control problems during the test flight from Alverca, Portugal, but no... No lawsuit followed that one?
Jump to postToday a Belgian F16 collided with a building at Leeuwarden air base (in the Netherlands) while taxiing. The pilot ejected and was injured, one person inside the building was also injured. Apparently there was no fire or explosion. https://images.nrc.nl/xe-ksVK7a6DzoKbR-7PYaQAZrNY=/1280x/filters:no_u...
Jump to postIt filed from Varna to Sharjah but flew pretty much direct to Tehran. FR24 has a track on Feb 20. Last ping is at 1220z just to the west of Tehran at FL250 then disappears from coverage and doesm't reappear anywhere over the following hour. Could you post the link to the FR24 history ? Yes, I've go...
Jump to postBOACJrJet wrote:Explosive decompression leads to use of O2 masks……Doody-Free Service……Bombs away……..Talk about leaving skid marks upon landing……
"China's aviation regulator has recommended cabin crew wear disposable nappies and avoid using the toilet to cut the risk of Covid-19 infection." Oh, the glamour of working in aviation. It may or may not make sense, I can't judge, but I wouldn't be happy having to wear nappies in any situa...
Jump to postojjunior wrote:1st ever incident with this model?
Still a fair point though on take-off. Planes rotate around their MLG, and on a conventional plane the downward force of the elevator is so far aft of the MLG that it is easy to rotate. On the Concorde, this distance is relatively short. I noticed though that the Concorde MLG is placed quite far for...
Jump to postTAP flies to several Cape Verdian islands (SID, RAI, BVC, VXE) - well prior to Corona they did. If demand is higher than supply (when corona restrictions ease), they can always deploy bigger aircraft so I don't think the government would need to worry about connections to/from LIS. Short hops betwee...
Jump to postAF-KL just announced they'll reduce their flights by 90%.
Jump to postAs of 18.00 local time today, the Dutch govt will ban aircraft coming from Italy, Iran, China and South Korea. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/13/coronablog-13-maart-a3993668 (Dutch only) All Slovak airports closed. Kuwait bans all flights, Kuwaiti nationals still allows to fly home. (But on what ...
Jump to postFR24 shows that the aircraft transponder was transmitting every 6 seconds, and at the time of the last transmission everything seemed fine (assuming the right turn was part of the SID). So within 6 seconds of that last transmission, something happened that made the transponder stop transmitting, bu...
Jump to postFR24 shows that the aircraft transponder was transmitting every 6 seconds, and at the time of the last transmission everything seemed fine (assuming the right turn was part of the SID). So within 6 seconds of that last transmission, something happened that made the transponder stop transmitting, but...
Jump to postKLM is suspending all flights to Iran and Irak today. Boeing is not allowed to examine the black boxes and Iran blaimes Boeing for the accident with the Ukrainian 737.This was on Dutch radio half an hour ago.. KLM doesn't fly to Iran or Iraq - the Tehran flights ended in September 2018. Maybe you m...
Jump to postJust happened to look at FR24 for LH's FRA-SIN route, clearly flies just north of the Iran/Turkmenistan border. Although SIN-FRA flies via China half of the time, it seems. KL AMS-SIN still flew over Iran Dec 31, Jan 1 no more (also Turkmenistan). Westbound SIN-AMS it didn't overfly Iran in any case...
Jump to postquote="sandyb123"]This video claims to show the Fokker being de-iced about 10 minutes before the crash. https://youtu.be/5Qm9s_mEXp0 However it would appear that only the left wing and tail are treated. If this is the actual flight (which is contested) then all involved failed to notice th...
Jump to postI also think only the left side ruptured as there only seemed to be a single trail of fire behind the aircraft, the winds and gushing pool of fuel would be enough to engulf the fuselage. If both sides failed then would that indicate a unknown stress point? When comparing the videos, it is indeed tr...
Jump to postikarlson wrote:This morning video from crash site, https://youtu.be/ALl-eb1o0h4
To me it looks like the crash site is located here: 8°52'38.04"N 39°15'4.28"E This is approximatley 18NM to the southeast of the last FR24 data point. I have looked at different pictures and videos of the crash site. The Street pattern, the small canyon or ravine and the hill with trees i...
Jump to postWhen I read the thread title I immediately thought of the Icelandair network model - would be very cool if they made it.
Jump to postCorrection to my post above. They are indeed keeping rwy 01/09, the N-S runway. So at least that is a good thing, albeit with the environmental constraints that I mentioned and an even shorter runway. New video here: https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/multimedia/negocios-tv/detalhe/expansao-da-capacid...
Jump to posthttps://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR2oqldop_fpBALy3jDTgJsiF1ksa-zZ6mbMO_AisfKDM7htpSY [/quote] Air India also did this with some B727's so they could land on unimproved runways. Years ago I worked for a company that Bought them for spare parts. The Gear Legs could be converted ...
Jump to postConsidering this is FR they were probably under pressure to turn the aircraft quickly and just used the excuse to hurry people off the plane. Not in this case, the plane didn't fly until the next day. Yes, this problem in the 737-800 is real and, while I have never seem them tip, from the front of ...
Jump to postLast week I flew FR on an almost full 737-800; we were sat at the back of the plane, deboarding used only a jetbridge so exit was through the front only. At some point, when just over half of the pax had left already, there was an announcement by the cabin crew on the PA urging the remaining pax to ...
Jump to postI'd still say they flew from Alverca, that's where the Embraer maintenance facility is. It is on the river bank just a few km north of LPPT. By the way, I read somewhere above they didn't have ADS-B, is it even allowed to fly like that in EU airspace? They'd have to request some derogation then? I'...
Jump to postOn the YouTube video of the actual ATC recording that was previously posted your notice that at the beginning of the video at 00.07 seconds it states that the aircraft ''an Air Astana Embraer ERJ-190LR (PK-JCK) performing flight KZR1388/KC1388 from Lisbon LPPT to Cairo HECA''. I'd still say they fl...
Jump to postThe most dangerous flight in an airplane is the first one after MX. Most airlines have expanded checklist procedures for precisely this reason. MX will move knobs and switches out of normal position (that are usually never touched) causing great confusion for the pilots if they aren't caught before...
Jump to postIf the final vertical speed was in fact -30,000 ft/min, will the recorders even be salvageable? Is -30.000 ft/min even possible? Maybe someone knows or can calculate? Nose down, probably.. But when a plane stalls or something what minus vertical speed can it reach? 30.000 ft/min is only about 300 k...
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