As a recent past ramp team member having closed and opened hundreds, maybe thousands of 737 front and rear hold doors, the following are the possible scenarios as I see it: 1. Most likely: Hold door was not closed correctly and warning sensor / system failed. Door not properly closed by previous ram...
Jump to postPrist isn’t required on Challengers, not a cost issue, it’s not required. This is not speculation. Fuel icing will still likely be one line of enquiry. Up to now additive not 'required'. But obviously something 'unexpected' and possibly 'unknown' occurred here which could change requirements in the...
Jump to postSo why did both engines quit at once? Any speculation? Yes, there is some speculation about a fuel icing issue, similar to the BA38 G-YMMM crash of 17th January 2008. As well as the high altitude flown (FL400 and FL390) en route Naples, this is partly based on audio recording where the crew when or...
Jump to postFrom early pilot training days, it is instilled into you NEVER to enter OR cross a runway, whether known to be live or not, without carefully looking both directions. Captain/left seat should look left and say audibly "Clear on/to the left", likewise Co-Pilot should look right and say &qu...
Jump to postWhy not look both ways before crossing any runway? Sure, ATC cleared them to cross but verifying it’s safe to cross is a good procedure and habit for this very reason. We ALWAYS do this. Of course and always a good idea however at night even an approaching aircraft can easily blend into a ‘sea of l...
Jump to postI don't know why but Dreamliners generally don't age well. I recently flew B787 (Qatar Airways) and the whole interior looked quite worn out. Like most products today; great sales talk, look great new, but not made to last the way things used to be made ;-) Carrying holiday makers with a high propo...
Jump to postI don't quite understand the need to cover-up something like this if that is what is happening here. There are mentally unstable people and pilots all over the world and in all airlines. These kinds of cases have happened before. So if one pilot takes a plane down, how is that an inditement againts...
Jump to post'Pilot suicide' is hard to believe as these words do not adequately explain what may have happened. German Wings was combined 'pilot suicide', 'mass murder' and 'intentional destruction' of expensive asset, driven by the desire of the pilot culprit to end his life and in doing so have his name known...
Jump to postDespite one or two seeing it as funny, nobody actually answered the above question: "What will carry the fish then?" ie. What will replace the B752Fs TF-FIG and FIH which are largely used for fish export work? I've personally loaded FIH a couple of times on special one off freight charters...
Jump to postSome details on the current European Cargo A346 inter-Ireland flights. The fixed nature of these repeating flights is unusual but pilot training is the only possibility as no ground handling is booked at BFS or SNN. However there are no unusual approaches, no missed approaches / go-arounds, no touch...
Jump to postwjcandee - When the crucial CVR content is revealed, you could of course be right about some unthought of / unscripted incident as happened with Giant 3591. That possibility certainly remains on the table. Consider how many times in recent years we have been discussing aircraft crashes on this forum...
Jump to postZeke: I am using the term 'vertical' in a loose sense. In the two videos of the final moments, the profile appears to me to have been at least 70°, maybe more. I know from the analysis of available data that the flight covered some ground during the rapid descent, it's clearly not possible to come d...
Jump to postDefinitely an interesting discussion! But note, Dan Gryder's mantra is 'Probable Cause'. Also note that many air accident investigations only come up with a 'probable cause or causes', and not a definitive cause in every case, especially the more difficult investigations. Also I would point out that...
Jump to postI'm inclined to slant towards Dan Gryder's suggestion (more than a suggestion in fact) in his video, already linked by Travaz on the previous page of this topic. As soon as I saw the news footage (one CCTV and the other dashcam) of the final seconds of the flight, and also the basic data indicating ...
Jump to postThe A340-600 is back in service, D-AIHT operating LH418 FRA-IAD today. This being a Lufthansa Group fleet thread I'm surprised few have commented on the return of the A346, the main event of recent days, maybe weeks. I've been waiting and watching for the return of the A346 which was supposed to ha...
Jump to postI would like to agree with those who have commented positively about Sam Chui's videos. I am tired of the aviation press and regular media's negativity and pessimism about everything, and going out of their way to find fault. Sam Chui's videos are highly enjoyable to watch, colourful, varied, and re...
Jump to postFlyingJhawk - Check out video on internet, it is all over the place. Daylight incident.
Apologies for not being able to use quotes in my last two posts. They're not working for me, throws up a different post than what I've selected. Fault could of course be my browser.
alasizon - When I zoom in I personally see double white, albeit color slightly difficult to discern. I can certainly see them as different from the single yellow centrelines.
Jump to postI have identified the location on the field but its too complicated to add an image here (I have not posted on this site for a long time and so I'm out of date with how this works). If someone else is able to add a screenshot from satellite imagery, the location is behind (directly to the east of) s...
Jump to postPicking up on an earlier post I made. I deferred, perhaps wrongly, from the ground track of the flight after takeoff and throughout the climb, that the aircraft was being flown manually, and that the autopilot did not appear to have been engaged. I was not available to continue conversation where po...
Jump to postRe the above, I am aware those speeds may be ground speed and not air speed, but still gives the general idea.
Jump to postOnce FDR and CVR are studied, I feel the cause may be largely a repeat of other similar crashes. From ground track, the climb out from take off to end of recording appears to be flown manually with no autopilot engaged, one can speculate as to why the crew may have chosen to do that in IMC condition...
Jump to postContrary to an earlier suggestion, if one zooms in to one of the photos above, as well as lower nacelle damage, one can also see see some intake lip damage. This site is so difficult that we cannot just attach a photograph to illustrate.
Jump to postOn 4th Feb 1986 PIA inadvertently landed Boeing 747 AP-AYW with the gear up at Islamabad.
Jump to postHey, I was born in 1966 also! I can't help you about British Airways as I don't have any knowledge. But, for memory's sake, I flew from Belfast BFS into Tenerife North / Los Rodeos TFN on Aviaco DC-9-34 EC-DGC flight AO1701 on Sunday 16th December 1979. My logbook even states that our family of five...
Jump to postLets not be too hard on Iran. We are being biased and hypocritical without looking at our own countries. I live in the UK and it appears to be normal protocol for authorities / companies / government to deny it when something happens, then after a few days announce what we generally knew all along. ...
Jump to postSo I think there are two unsolved mysteries: What was that possible missile strike caught on video and verified by the NYT, which doesn't seem to match the location of the missile strike we were told of by the aviation military? What was the very final explosion while the plane was about to hit the...
Jump to postI would like to re-iterate some points already made and give my reaction to recent events: Iran has moved up in my estimation. The statement by Hassan Rouhani is very well worded, honest, and commendable. Indeed it contrasts with the continued flat denial by Russia regarding MH17. I would not be har...
Jump to postIt seems like everything would have to be just right to catch that so quickly. But if the missile is moving away from him, and he already had a smartphone out and open doing something else why he was walking, then when the glow of a boost motor only a mile or two away on a hazy night may have motiv...
Jump to postThe probability of a missile is still way overrated in this thread. Yes, it's a distinct possibility that the plane was shot down, but the likelyhood is far smaller than many here make it out to be. In the history of aviation, only a small number of civil airliners were actually downed by missiles....
Jump to postI don't have time to read every page to see if someone has corrected you here, but I feel it necessary to point out that the Air France Concorde was NOT brought down by an engine explosion. The flames in the infamous Concorde video were NOT coming from an engine but were burning fuel which was spill...
Jump to postpugman211 wrote:If they reduced the dive from 49 degrees to 20 degrees then I don't think it was an intentional dive, just something that caught them off guard/ disoriented.
. What seems to be central at this point is that the aircraft didn't climb much, its altitude was erratic, then it impacted terrain. The crash site is around 60km (37 miles) south-east of the Ethiopian capital. How do you know it didnt climb much? Available data shows the aircraft only climbed 1400...
Jump to postSome posters are very severe on others. This forum is generally open to the public once they have signed in so are free to make their comments, however uninformed they may be. Please kindly assist uninformed posters, steering them in the right direction so they can learn, avoiding the nastiness. Mos...
Jump to postFrom what I can see, we need to disregard the graphical representation of the flight. It is indeed smoothed out as it exists for the purpose of looking at the profile of longer flights. Looking alone at the data table for the short period that it is available, the aircraft only climbed 1400ft (above...
Jump to postMCAS strikes again? This is...deeply disturbing. It's one thing to have an electronic system that aids an already stable aircraft...but the MAX8 seems to be the commercial equivalent of a military aircraft with relaxed stability...the difference being the MAX8 has been released to commercial airlin...
Jump to postWhat about a sudden cockpit intrusion? A flock of geese through the windows? Rapid decompression? My guess is #1 mechanical, #2 environmental, (combination of the two).......#3 suicide/intentional deployment of the TR......#4 act of terror or sabotage. RIP to the crew and peace be with the families...
Jump to postThe weather at FUL says little about the inflight conditions, if it’s an LOC in IMC accident. GF Must have been a massive G-force to break a wing mid flight. Looks like both sheared off however for sure once of them broke in-flight. Possible LOC due to one engine out with IMC being a factor ot like...
Jump to postI live in the small country of Northern Ireland and I know of at least three incidents where airliners landed at wrong airports here. On 29th March 2006, an Eirjet A320 operating for Ryanair (flight FR9884) from Liverpool landed at Ballykelly airfield mistaking it for Londonderry / City of Derry (LD...
Jump to postYou have all missed the next route on the QR list (UK at least). At the Cardiff launch Mr. Baker said that the next UK / Irish airport he wants to launch is Belfast International BFS. This has been reported in local media again recently, we are just awaiting confirmation unless something has changed...
Jump to postMy question is how did they make it back? Does the A330 have some sort of backup that doesn't rely on the pitot tubes (and if so, what does it rely on?) or did they just fly by the seat of their pants? I have no idea how it all works, but in the AF 447 tragedy the comment was made (likely by Zeke a...
Jump to postI cannot understand why the plane flew into the ground and a building like that. Yes the port engine was giving trouble and likely loosing power, maybe failed completely, but there was plenty of speed towards the end, no stall or anything like that. How come I can hear at least one engine increase R...
Jump to postThey only said 'destinations', not daily flights.
Belfast and other similar cities might only get once or twice a week (well maybe thrice max) so that would certainly increase the number of airports.
Also the Canary Islands are at (or even beyond) tourist capacity and there are already moves to cap numbers of tourists to these islands. Local Spanish authorities are not currently exploring new inbound markets for this reason.
Jump to postUpdate, my friend just texted me after arrival in Havana to say he woke up (business class) to eat and just as grilled fish arrived he turned on the map and couldn't believe he was over Lough Neagh! His return trip will also be fun as TK183 (same flight number all the way back to IST) makes a stop i...
Jump to postStunning photo, I wonder what altitude she's at. Didn't they cruise at FL600? Without getting too technical (you can search the details), Concord did not fly at a set cruise altitude. Concorde did what was referred to as a 'cruise climb' on transatlantic flights where the autopilot was set to allow...
Jump to postOn the subject of strange connections...in November 1971, Amtrak (the USA passenger railroad) published in their national timetable, a connection between San Diego and Los Angeles (~120 miles) that operated via Kansas City and took 4 days! He he, a bit of sightseeing perhaps if you had the time and...
Jump to postTo answer a few posts further up without quoting them all, I had to go to Tel Aviv for a 3 day conference with my work (from UK). Not being either Israeli or Jewish (AFAIK !!!), but welcoming of unusual or 'out of the norm' travel experiences, it was a no-brainer for me to choose El AL LHR-TEL-LHR g...
Jump to postOh dear, I’d go nuts thinking of the time wasted! It’s one of my biggest nightmares. Going nowhere, fast. I always pay extra for a direct routing, and I consider great circle mapper each time to make sure if I have to connect it’s as efficient as possible. Time is way more valuable than money! You ...
Jump to postAs you pointed it out: of the price is right and time/schedule permits, people will go out of their way and even allow for detours. On the orher hand, what are the options from DUB to HAV - probably quite limited? Indeed, not many. Think they had to route DUB-MAD-HAV in the past. Albeit Cubana did ...
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