AA confirmed the audio recordings as authentic and the FBI is investigating.
Jump to postSo is the theory that the blade(s) went into the engine and then came back out the front (i.e. passed back through the fan) and sliced the cowling on the way out? How would it not damage other blades when passing back through the fan? I think the fan blade separated and was ejected forward, damagin...
Jump to postWhen you say cowlings do you include the intake ring? If so, no engine is ever run without an intake. Development engines do run with slave intakes during some tests but fan blade off tests have to be run with the production flight intake fitted. The cowling doors are not usually fitted for fan bla...
Jump to postOn a new engine in development, this wouldn’t constitute a fan blade off test pass. I’m not sure how they will argue these engines are airworthy without a design change to the fan casing. A fan blade off needs to be a non-hazardous failure due to the frequency being above the allowable threshold fo...
Jump to postThe BWB sticks to one deck (in any viable concept I've seen), but has concerns on evacuation. I believe the evacuation problem has been solved. basically stairs analogous to the attic stairs to get to the top of the aircraft and then everyone walks off except for people near the front or back who h...
Jump to postThey should try and pick up some of the castoffs from the Norwegian 787-9 fleet.
Jump to postThis accident seems to have alot in common with the 2001 crash of AA587 that happened on climbout from JFK. The PCU/rudder hard-over issue has been fixed for decades. Is the rudder on the 737 large enough cause the separation or significant damage to the vertical stabilizer if given inappropriate pi...
Jump to postThe whole series of AA training videos that posted yesterday was fascinating. This has all the hallmarks of a failure to recover from a critically-abnormal flight condition. Whether it was a rudder hard-over, failed flap or slat retraction, asymmetric thrust, STAB trim or stuck stabilizer, etc.
Jump to postI am disputing that CO2 is harming the environment; in fact my position is that the effects of more CO2 would be almost entirely beneficial. And I came to that conclusion by thinking and analyzing available evidence for myself, not outsourcing my thinking. But you have not yet answered my questions...
Jump to postNo, the article isn't saying 1% passenger. Instead it is talking about 1% global population, aka 70 Million people, compares to 11% who have actually fly on an aircraft and 4% world population that have flown aboard. Which mean every one in four world population who have travelled aboard on a plane...
Jump to postEvergreen used McMinville Airport (KMMV) with a runway of 5420 ft to land the 747s that have on display at (or on top of) their museum. I’ve linked to a YouTube video of one of the landings below.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbYi8QnEU7I
This whole idea that CO2 emissions are destroying the planet is a huge con. Consider: the historical range of CO2 concentrations extracted from ice cores is from 0.02% to 0.44%. The range that will support life is 0.017% to 5%. Below 0.017% plants die. Above 5% mammals die. The optimum level for pl...
Jump to postEverybody should know that military maneuvers are just burning money no matter how they do it - they're not producing goods or services for sale. Nobody should care in what aircraft they fly, two 767s or one A380. That was part of my thinking. With the huge capacity of the A380, perhaps movements t...
Jump to postIn the 747 thread I've read that multiple 747-400 passenger frames are being used for military charters. I haven't seen any discussion or proposal for using retired A380s for similar purposes. It seems there will be frames available, and I wonder why EU countries haven't considered this option with ...
Jump to postKorean Air is sending HL7402, its second to last Boeing 747-400, to Anchorage for what appears to be retirement. HL7402's Korean Air logo has been removed: https://twitter.com/Nuri_MUA/status/1333225983831199744 HL7402 now en-route to OSC in Michigan. Not sure why, but Kalitta has a big maintenance...
Jump to postI never understand A.net enthusiasm for ideas that have clearly failed in the crucible of the market and daily operations. Bring back the B757, four-engine double deck designs, bring back t-tails are the first to mind as examples. It’s like the thousands of engineers, hundreds of operational decisi...
Jump to postOnly if they put them on a new wing attached to a 757 fuselage.
Jump to postSpacepope wrote:EI320 wrote:BA resorting to rather extreme measures to ensure these 744s don't return to service...
Yeah, but is it a write-off?
I'd be interested to see an evaluation of the impact of first/business class travel vs. private aviation. How many first/business class flights can you take in a year to equal the emissions of a single flight on a private jet.
Jump to postOne other thing to keep in mind, both of the most promising vaccine candidates are mRNA vaccines. There has never been an mRNA vaccine that has been advanced to large scale production and there has never been an FDA-approved mRNA vaccine. Before we start packing our bags to travel in 2021, let's mak...
Jump to postHow long could the planes that are retiring be cannibalized for parts to keep the still-flying jets operational?
Jump to postI could see a better option...a one-stop flight between two hubs that includes a meal in the airport lounge. Still not necessarily environmentally friendly, but it would add an extra landing/takeoff for the pilots, could be routed to be done with one crew and give passengers an experience that is wo...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:I can’t ever remember seeing a video like this were the pilot doesn’t do an absolutely fine job. Kinda weird
It's good for airlines that hedge their fuel supplies. Big buying opportunity...if they have the cash on hand to buy now.
Jump to postI'm curious about safety measures being taken on the Kalitta 747F being used for evacuations. How many seats are allowed? Where are the emergency exits? What about O2 masks in case of depressurization?
Jump to postOP deserves more respect as if pundits here are not aware that airlines and industries uses normalized cabin for calculating CASM. What a shame! Also, the comment shaming someone for using CASM over CASK is just silly. AFAIK, the nautical mile is still the standard unit of distance used across avia...
Jump to postTake note Delta this how you Handle an engine problem on Departure. It's wrong to equate the two situations. The AC 767 experienced an issue with a landing gear and an engine. The pilots were right to stay airborne to lighten the load to maximize the prospect of a safe landing. The Delta 777 had an...
Jump to postLive broadcast of landing here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6M2TLL4_wc
It's amazing how much people will pay to save 1hr on the LA freeways...the helicopter flight looks like it would have taken 30-45 minutes (if completed) and the time estimate for the drive at 9AM on Sunday (from Google Maps) is 1h 15m to 1h 45m.
Jump to postThat is exactly my take. If the ASD-B is correct (and there really is no other data with no black box, unless radar turns up) he was climbing through the cloud deck (which he said he was doing in an ATC call moments before the crash) and lost control of the craft (stall?) or had a mechanical failur...
Jump to posthivue wrote:enilria wrote:
How did he get past Burbank? Transition? Go around it? Fly under a shelf?
The pilot, as well as the remainder of the nine victims have been identified. The pilot was 50 yrs old, was instrument-rated and also a flight-instructor with a good reputation according to these articles... https://globintel.com/usa/ara-zobayan-bio-wiki-age/ https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/who-is...
Jump to postB757capt wrote:
Which ATC station would have control over this flight at the time of the crash?
Jump to postMove production back to the McD&D facilities in Long Beach. Better weather. (Tongue firmly planted in cheek).
Jump to postIt doesn’t in fact most airplanes can’t dump fuel. A big difference between MTOW and MLW would be a reason to include the ability to jettison fuel, right? Otherwise it's likely not needed. Yes that’s a reason fuel jettison is included in the Jet....if you can obviously reduce the weight to MLW but ...
Jump to postWhen flying long-haul between two cities that are very close to antipodes in orientation (ie. New York to Sydney or Mexico to India), would flight plans fly both legs in the same direction (ie. always flying East) to take advantage of the earth's rotation and prevailing winds?
Jump to postDid they dump fuel on Bayonne and Jersey City?
Jump to postTo be more accurate, ATC asked if they needed to HOLD for dumping fuel. The pilot's only answer to that question was "Negative". The question from ATC was ambiguous. Does this situation get investigated by the FAA to the point that data on the CVR would be analysed? That would be very int...
Jump to postIt’s insanity that they never told atc they were dumping. ATC even asked if they needed to dump and they didn’t say they were. To be more accurate, ATC asked if they needed to HOLD for dumping fuel. The pilot's only answer to that question was "Negative". The question from ATC was ambiguo...
Jump to postIran is now saying that the US shot down the plane by hacking the missiles or caused it to be shot down by hacking the ATC system. https://www.ibtimes.sg/iran-claims-us-cyberattack-led-weapons-operator-confusing-ukraine-plane-american-cruise-missile-37718 Thanks for the link. Excerpts from the arti...
Jump to postThe evidence seems to point to the first missile hitting the plane just below the cockpit almost certainly killing the pilots. That would also correspond with losing ADSB at that point. The plane continued to fly until hit by the second missile. The investigation and recorders (if still functioning...
Jump to postA couple of observations from the full LiveATC recordings...you can hear two pilot's voices at different times, so they were handing off pilot-flying and pilot-monitoring duties. They were asked about a fuel dump by the departure controller and then handed off to the approach controller and it appea...
Jump to postbtfarrwm wrote:Here is a link to the LiveATC recording for LAX departure. Delta 89 Heavy makes first audio contact at ~3m20s into the recording.
https://archive-server.liveatc.net/kbur ... -1930Z.mp3
Here is a link to the LiveATC recording for LAX departure. Delta 89 Heavy makes first audio contact at ~3m20s into the recording.
https://archive-server.liveatc.net/kbur ... -1930Z.mp3
The FAA will be investigating, according to their Twitter feed...
https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1217213895066169345
This also stood out to me. The Reuters report quoted Canadian intelligence, and you can be sure that they were in contact with the Americans before coming to the conclusion the plane wasn’t shot down. One explanation for the revelations coming out today about satellite data is simple. It took time ...
Jump to postIf this is the response of the head of Iran's Civil Aviation board regarding the missile theory, confidence in their ability to perform a competent investigation just took a big hit... The head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority is questioning the US allegation that Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukrai...
Jump to postJust curious, when people are making assumptions about the plane's flight path and behavior after becoming crippled, are we talking about the true altitude above the ground? The plane was at 8,000 ft above sea-level, but the altitude in Tehran is listed as 3,900 ft.
Jump to postPentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek that the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile. https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313?amp=1 A missile would...
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