Re: UA dumps ELM...again!!

We certainly hope ITH sees an expansion of service with the new terminal renovations. It's a highly seasonal market (2 colleges (+TC3) and some local industry but small compared to Elmira). I wouldn't be surprised that if they upgraded service to DTW with CR7s/CR9s, the front would fill (and not thr...

Re: American Eagle ERJ 145 Slides Off Icy Runway

TheZ wrote:

washingtonflyer wrote:

So is this a write off?

It's a 1998 model so quite possibly. Hard to tell how severe the structural damage is from the photos.

Re: United 757-200 hard landing at EWR

A friend of mine was on the flight. He said that the plane bounced after initial touchdown, then felt like turbulence, then slammed down and felt like turbulence a few times as they slowed down. He said that the first class floor was deformed upwards and that the crew had to pry open the front door ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2019

That's not good... Hope all that are on board are safe. Update: It looks like it was a full flight with 256 passengers supposedly on the flight (UA's 787-9 only has 252 seats, maybe including infants?). Pax will spend the night in NOU - everyone was calm when exiting the aircraft. Including crew to...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

With respect to everyone on here who knows far more about aircraft than I, could this be a result of a drone strike? Just curious as it seems to have been flying over a populated area at low altitude.

Caveat: I have no idea what I’m talking about- just an amateur non-pilot here...

Re: Lion Air 737MAX8 Crashed Jakarta to Pangal Pinang

https://reports.nlr.nl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10921/470/TP-2012-068.pdf?sequence=1 [/quote] The better question is why the pilots can simply call up the GPS measured speed. [/quote] Amateur here, but it would probably have to be some kind of corrected GPS speed... accounting for ascent or descent a...

Re: Cathay Pacific aircraft repainted with wrong titles

Speed tape

Re: Is flying without a working PA system allowed by FAA?

Sorry for the confusion. The PA was not working at all, nor was the audio from the safety video audible. The cabin manager made a loud announcement - without a megaphone or using the PA system - to watch the video. The FAs did not perform a manual safety demo.

Re: Is flying without a working PA system allowed by FAA?

Was it the cabin PA or just the audio from the safety video? You indicate you heard an announcement from the flight attendants to watch the video. Those are separate items.[/quote] Sorry for the confusion. The PA was not working at all, nor was the audio from the safety video audible. The cabin mana...

Re: Is flying without a working PA system allowed by FAA?

Was it the cabin PA or just the audio from the safety video? You indicate you heard an announcement from the flight attendants to watch the video. Those are separate items.[/quote] Sorry for the confusion. The PA was not working at all, nor was the audio from the safety video audible. The cabin mana...

Is flying without a working PA system allowed by FAA?

Greetings all, I recently traveled on a United flight from Australia to the US (equipment was a 789). After boarding and pushback the FAs started the normal safety video but audio was not coming through speakers in the cabin. In fact, no FA announcements or announcements from the flight crew came th...

Re: NZ6 AKL-LAX returns to AKL 6 April

aerorobnz wrote:

It was a hydraulic leak, Left main landing gear. My brother in law was onboard. The flight had to burn a lot of fuel prior to landing to get down to maximum landing weight.

Re: NZ6 AKL-LAX returns to AKL 6 April

Hey folks - to clarify - I was on the flight, but didn't want to give that away in case there were any security issues at the time. So I guess it was some kind of hydraulic leak (I heard a mechanic say "pipe split" or something to that effect. My question is: On a 77W is it standard proced...

Re: NZ6 AKL-LAX returns to AKL 6 April

Well I may have actually been on the plane :). Evidently a hydraulic line broke. Interesting to do no- or very little bank turns, plus a very shallow descent. To be honest my mind totally went to JAL 123 as it seemed we were slowly turning without any real bank angle, and for a good 3/4 of an hour o...

NZ6 AKL-LAX returns to AKL 6 April

Hi everyone
Just noticed that NZ6 (AKL-LAX) turned around this evening after 40 mins or so, and the plane made a slow and long approach back to AKL.
Anyone know what happened?
Halophila

Re: Norwegian Considering BUF, BWI, RDU

TheGeordielad wrote:

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msycajun wrote:

Really, which airports haven't Norwegian considered?

Or have been linked to

Re: ITH receives marketing grant

The cities of ELM, ITH, BGM are all very similar. I would say that ITH is quite different from the other two. It's an oasis of prosperity in a region that has otherwise seen better days. Tompkins County and Ithaca especially is booming. We have Cornell University, Ithaca College and TC3, a blossomi...

Re: Probably the biggest debris of MH370 - found in Tanzania

That's really interesting. A) it looks like part of a big commercial jet; B) there doesn't appear to be many barnacles attached, so assuming they haven't been cleared off by the folks who found it its been somewhere out of the water for a while; C) there looks like some kind of burning on the side, ...

RE: Possible MH370 Debris Found In South Australia

That "no step" and honeycomb symbol appears rather distinctive - anyone here know where on the plane it may occur?
Halophila

RE: News: Possible MH370 Part Found Near Mozambique

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/WPIAeroGuy" class="quote" target="_blank">WPIAeroGuy</a> (<a href="#75" class="quote">Reply 75</a>):<br/><i>Interesting. I know copper and its a...

RE: News: Possible MH370 Part Found Near Mozambique

As a marine biologist/oceanographer, I find the lack of any kind of fouling (our way of saying barnacles, algae, discoloration, tunicates, etc) a bit troubling here. Not to say that it hadn't at one time been floating in the ocean, its just that if it had done so for some time, I would be surprised ...

RE: News: Possible MH370 Part Found Near Mozambique

Two questions for folks here: Was wreckage from South African 295 ever recovered from the Mozambique channel? It crashed just northeast of Mauritius and not that far from Reunion in 1987. I'm just curious about drift patterns of wreckage. Is the 'skin' (presuming here it was found in isolation of an...

RE: QF63/06Jan Via PER W/5 Engins To JNB

Dumb question but is this the first engine being ferried by a 747-400? Or by a QF 744?

RE: Drone Comes Close To Aircraft At JFK

Was on a flight into <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (Glenn H Curtiss / North Beach / Municipal-La Guardia Field) (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> on the 23rd of July, flying over central Park and saw a drone whizz by less than ~300 ft away, quite high in altitude (maybe FL3?). I ju...

RE: Aircraft Flap Found In La Réunion (RUN) Part 2

I'm a marine biologist. Just wanted to add that we could probably get clues as to where this has been by looking at the types of viruses that are in those barnacles. The barnacles themselves recruit from larvae which are very wide ranging in ocean plankton, but their viruses can be pretty region spe...

MH333 Engine Fire - Melbourne

Evidently MH148 had to turn back because of an engine fire after takeoff <a href="http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/malaysian-airlines-plane-fire-forces-emergency-landing/story-fnizu68q-1227394802792" target="_blank">http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel...nding/story-fnizu68q-122739480279...

RE: World's Most Extreme Runways

Dutch Harbor, Alaska is always a fun one!

Air Asia QZ8501 SUB to SIN Missing Part 1

Pretty bad form to post the entire PNR and full passenger name. Pretty easy to get at some sensitive personal info.

So sorry to hear about this.

Halophila

RE: Malaysia Airlines MH17 Crashes In Ukraine Part 7

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingturtle" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingturtle</a> (<a href="#89" class="quote">Reply 89</a>):<br/><i>And then, according to the pictu...

RE: Malaysia Airlines MH17 Crashes In Ukraine Part 7

First, I want to express how sorry I am for the passengers, crew, and families on board MH17. As someone who spends a significant amount of time at 30,000+ ft, this one really caused a lot of personal distress. I am shocked, saddened, and disgusted. I wanted to ask a physics question (with no disres...

RE: Australian/QANTAS Merger

If I remember correctly, immediately after the merger the short range <acronym title="Air Tahiti Nui (France)">TN</acronym> and subsidiaries (DH8, 146, etc) a/c were painted in a livery featuring a red triangle on the tail, since <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> originally said they ...

RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 33

I've been following these posts for some days now, and I have to say this is amongst the most peculiar aviation incidents I have seen. What I am thinking, however, is that anything posted on this site is public and should this be a terrorism-associated event (and I'm not saying it is here, necessari...

RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 15

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/timothy31388" class="quote" target="_blank">timothy31388</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>"Pressed repeatedly on what info...

RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 14

Forgive me if this has been said before, but Aceh is literally just across the water from their last reported position and a known hotbed for terrorism. Have the indonesian air force indicated if they saw anything? Any chance it could have landed at LSW or another strip in Aceh?