and here come the headlines: "Whistleblower claims Boeing Dreamliner could break apart midair"
Jump to postI just did a very rough count, there are about 2150 active 737s and 1600 A320. I didn't count RJs. Regardless that's probably something like ~8-10k cycles per day for the 737 fleet, so plenty of chances for something minor to go wrong. And given the media hysteria around 737 where every minor incide...
Jump to postWith all those recents issues, almost always in USA and almost always on a 737... Problem of maintenance in the 737 program within all airlines ? There are probably more 737s flying within the US than all the types combined (don't quote me on this, i'm just guesstimating). So statistically it makes...
Jump to postStaffing ATC doesn't get anyone's political base excited though.
As for LH I would expect that 74H will make a comeback, however I wouldn't be surprised if we never see 744 here again as there are rumors that LH will be retiring them this year (can anyone confirm/deny?)
Apparently not an April 1st joke... from Boston Globe: "On Tuesday, GE will complete a long-planned breakup into three companies: GE Vernova (energy), GE HealthCare, and GE Aerospace. The sprawling GE that moved its headquarters to Boston from Connecticut in 2016 amid much fanfare will be no mo...
Jump to postInterestingly enough I have not seeing EK send an extra aircraft to DME to pick up the passengers from the cancelled flight. My dad's flight from a month ago was completely full, so I expect that so was this one, I doubt they could just bring all those people on the 2 remaining flights. Perhaps I mi...
Jump to postThat's gonna be interesting...my dad flew her DME-DXB a couple weeks back. I'm guessing no kind of ferry flight is possible with that sort of damage? A6-EDM is MSN #42, 14 years old, and the second oldest active EK A380. I wonder if it makes more sense for EK to strip it of all the useful parts and ...
Jump to postNot a seaman here, so I'm just asking. If they'd dropped anchor the moment they realised something had gone wrong, would it have helped? It'd have pivoted and swung around the anchor point (depending on the current) but could it have avoided hitting the pylon? How deep is the water at that point an...
Jump to postN2140U departed Sydney about 9 hours ago with what looks like a ferry flight number. She is due in SFO in about 4 hours.
https://www.flightradar24.com/UAL3908/345431ad
It's funny how we're lamenting the death of journalism in relation to Boeing when Dominic Gates original 737 MAX story, which won a Pulitzer, was instrumental to drawing political and public attention to the issue and the victims. It was also an article lauded by industry insiders and crews for its...
Jump to postSPREE34 wrote:Starfuryt wrote:Also if you think that A343 is underpowered I'd love to hear your thoughts on this:
That IS NOT an A340. It IS an IL-86. But hey, don't let reality sway you from fantasy.
Earlier today, I was watching a livestream video from Frankfurt Airport on YouTube. It still amazes me that in 2024, the A340-300, which is woefully under-powered is still in front line service. The takeoff roll was so long, the aircraft was almost out of camera range before it slowly lifted off . ...
Jump to postBoof02671 wrote:CNBC is reporting it was an A320, AA doesn’t fly the 320 to HI, the plane was an A321neo
Driving to the airport is still about 1000x more risky than getting on a MAX...while Boeing has issues I'm not going to lose any sleep over flying a max. I'm far more likely to be killed by some moron in an oversized truck while on my way to the airport.
Jump to postPlenty of traffic in an out of MSP currently, she has flown past MSP and looks like she is indeed heading to DEN. The flight from SEA to DEN climbed straight up to 41k feet, so certainly looks very empty.
Jump to postCould be a fr24 error, there are plenty of those, this does seem a bit weird if real.
Jump to postHe landed right by the spotting location for runway 30, there is a set of wires that runs along the road there, but otherwise it's a 3 lane pretty straight where they came down. Probably no traffic due to snow today. Yes it's quite possible to tow it back from there, assuming it fits through the gat...
Jump to postI was out spotting at IAD just the other day and was there for the entirety of the European rush hour. The car backup is as it has always been, the tail end is all the out of the airport. The trains runs essentially empty, nearly no one getting on or off, most people on the train either coming from ...
Jump to postMore guns in general leads to more irresponsible people bringing guns everywhere, including to the airport, it's simple statistics really. While I'm not in favor of lifetime punishment or even incarceration for something like this I think a year of not being allowed on an airplane would get a point ...
Jump to postThere are currently only a handful of Max 9s in the air. Copa has 3 outbound and 2 inbound, interestingly the one from Curacao never went above 10k feet according to fr24. Icelandair has 4 going back home from US, and there are 3 SCAT in/out of Almaty.
Jump to postAnd that's why windows must stay open during landing/taking off. So the flight attendants can see if there are flames outside before opening the doors. I wish this is something the American carriers would heed. Windows are closed for the entire flight every time I fly now. Very unsafe if there was ...
Jump to postOne thing that may see some focus is the ARFF response. That Red Air crash at MIA saw a very fast and very aggressive response from ARFF. Granted we're not talking about a runway collision in MIA, but the level of response at MIA seems much more intense. I don't think that will be much focus at all...
Jump to postDoes everyone realize that every bad thing that has happened regarding the MAX from the crashes that grounded the airplane to the whole reason the airplane even came to be are either directly or indirectly related to these “fuel efficient” engines from GE. MCAS wouldn’t have been necessary but beca...
Jump to postTypical sales negotiations in the Western world: „If you‘ll buy it; I‘ll build it“ to which the airline‘s representative will reply „If you build it, I‘ll buy it“ Sales negotiations in Russia „If you buy it you will not fall accidentally out of the window“. End of discussion. ;-) Seriously, as an a...
Jump to postSince the Ilyushin Il-96 variants can best be described as confusing, is this the same length as the Il-96M, the Il-96-400, or is this now a new third stretch? Or is this all lumped under Il-96-400 with the T being freighter and M being pax? Yeah, it's a bit messed up, but... Il-96-300 - original v...
Jump to postWhile we can all agree that TSA is incompetent, the responsibility ultimately lies on this "responsible" gun owner for not knowing where his weapons are, TSA isn't a babysitter. I honestly hope he at the very least gets heavily fined and then kicked out of HK on the very first flight and a...
Jump to postWell according to the state department Americans should not ever travel to a large fraction of the world...doesn't really seem to be stopping anyone though.
Jump to postFound this flight on FR24, it's almost a year back, so at the limit of gold sub. Top of descent was at 0750 UTC and they touched down right around 0920. I can't seem to be able to link directly to the flight (probably due to age), here is the route they flew, there is one single loop up near Changi ...
Jump to posthttps://www.flightradar24.com/data/flig ... 0#32044d1f
FR24 shows -6k fpm at the beginning of emergency descent, they slowed down when they got closer to 10k.
I just went to look up an old reg and there is nothing in the DB, looking at top of all time and it's showing that there are 264k photos in the entire db. Something isn't right here... edit: if i search for my own name the search only returns the photos that I clicked on in the last few minutes, sea...
Jump to postWho and how exactly would discover parts on airplanes that never leave Russia?
My dad did mention that there are planes in various states of disassembly at both SVO and DME, a few months back. The translation of the article is pretty spot on, the original source however I can't vouch for.
can't wait for another bland eurowhite version of a great livery...looking at you LH
Jump to postEuropean airspace is not closed to TK, Russian airspace isn't closed to TK, Turkish airspace isn't closed to Russia...seems pretty simple.
I'm a Russian citizen, should I be forbidden from travelling above EU airspace just because of that fact alone?
ktarabay98 wrote:In SJU happens the same. Iberia uses a mix of mainline A332 and A333 and sometimes LEVEL fleet for MAD-SJU.
can't say it's not original but I think this is a step back from the current livery.
Jump to postExactly. In fact, citizens of the Western countries keep flying in as visitors daily Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US all have advisories warning their citizens to unequivocally avoid all travel and strongly suggest that their citizens leave ASAP. The UK specifically states: The Forei...
Jump to postI'm slightly late to this thread but as a Russian some things really strike me. The amount of anti-Russian paranoia is pretty absurd. I'd be far more concerned by the fact that they had to land in Magadan than the fact that they landed in Russia. I love the suggestions of forcing airlines to fly aro...
Jump to postNear constant issues for me as well over the last day maybe 2. Everything from clicking on a photo to logging in. I've also been logged out multiple times.
Jump to postThe CNN link is broken. The correct link is https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/united-airlines-flight-turns-around-unruly-passengers/index.html Also to be clear for everyone, this incident is from January 2022. The incident is from April 23rd, 3 days ago. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/...
Jump to postHere is a list of accidents involving regs: EC-E* https://aviation-safety.net/database/registration/regsearch.php?regi=ec-e&submit=Search There is at least a couple 172s in that list. Hope this helps. If i had to venture a guess i would guess this is EC-ETC, and it has since been replaced by a n...
Jump to postI'm an experienced data scientist and I specialize primarily in image/video classification and manipulation. If this is a deep fake then it's basically the best one i've ever seen with loads of time going into generating the model to do this, hence the video was done before the crash even happened. ...
Jump to postHello everyone,
I just got a photo of thunderbirds from Andrews air show rejected due to missing reg. Does anyone have any resources to find what the current thunderbird registrations are? I can't find them written anywhere on the aircraft.
Thanks
Yup, my bad I thought it was Monday for some reason, if this came off of A380 can anyone ID the part? Also EK 232 really didn't overfly the state house, at least according to FR24 it flew about 7km west of it. AUG runway 17 however, points basically straight towards the state house, probably a much ...
Jump to postCNN claims that this fell somewhere around Augusta, Maine around 12:30 pm on Monday. There is an image in the article. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/maine-large-metal-object-falls-near-capitol/index.html Can anyone ID this part? I tried to look back on FR24 and I can't find any large aircraft ov...
Jump to postAre Philippines not allowing overflight? The plane is going around, just outside the territorial waters.
Jump to postFR24 is showing her departure is scheduled for today as AF 384V, should've left 17 minutes ago, currently on the ground.
Edit: She just departed at 16:40 EST.
AvHerald has now logged that the return to IAD yesterday was due to a "pungent odor on board". AFR7665 is indeed the filed return flight IAD to CDG for the incident aircraft today but has still not left IAD as I type this. (Edited for clarity). also AFR7665 is showing as a regularly sched...
Jump to postAvHerald has now logged that the return to IAD yesterday was due to a "pungent odor on board". AFR7665 is indeed the filed return flight IAD to CDG for the incident aircraft today but has still not left IAD as I type this. (Edited for clarity). also AFR7665 is showing as a regularly sched...
Jump to postI've asked some local contacts at IAD to see if they know anything, so far all I've gotten back is "onboard emergency". The aircraft taxied back to the gate under its own power. It's currently still on the ground there. Regarding BWI, the descent to get there would've been pretty rapid, an...
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