No this is wrong, Glasgow was a city in it's own right with a classy airport at Renfrew which had no room to expand, hence the Royal Navy base at Abbotsinch was built out as the new Glasgow Airport. BA had a large base there, at one point we had 14 B757s per day on the LHR Shuttle as well as One El...
Jump to postMore knowledgeable people correct me where I'm wrong . . . I always thought that the only reason that PIK was on the airline world's map was that it was one of the nearer refueling airports for TATL flights beginning in the piston days (similar to SNN and Gander), and that GLA simply became its mode...
Jump to postFlyHappy is right. SYD-LHR, and even SYD-NYC are unique routes that are not only UULH, they're also UUimportant markets for the airline. Why would AA invest in a sub-fleet and a route like MIA-SYD that requires so much metal and personnel? That and the other antipode-like routes you mentioned simply...
Jump to postAside from the totality of how unfortunate this whole mystery is, the part that gets me is that searching had already started while the aircraft was still airborne. That's because they thought it crashed in the Jungles of Vietnam or the nearby oceans along the course of the planned route in one of ...
Jump to postThat’s the one thing that I can’t get my head around. I’d like to think that if a Russian or Chinese sub suddenly launched a ballistic or cruise missile from the middle of the Indian Ocean someone in the US military would notice. But here you have something many times that size in a completely unex...
Jump to postgzm wrote:Now the families are suing the state for damages.
So this plane can't fly over land, just like Concorde.
It doesn't have true intercontinental range, just like Concorde.
It'll carry 15 - 35% fewer passengers than Concorde.
And celebrities, the ultra-rich and corporate hot-shots, Concorde's bread and butter market, now fly PJs.
What am I missing?
When I first saw this topic header, I thought it was some sort of one-off stupid headline grabbing tabloid story. It's hard to believe it's real and so stupid on so many levels. Who in a large sophisticated company could have come up with such a stupid idea? And then there's the moronic level of ign...
Jump to postThe biggest threat to Boom is the era of free money is gone. ^^ This. While engineers and enthusiasts talk about whether Boom can get Overture off the ground, business people think about whether there's a viable market for the plane. I flew Concorde twice during the first internet bubble, surrounde...
Jump to postiirc, the USAF originally wanted three 748s to replace the two current-gen 742 AF1s. Trump cut the order back to two planes. Maybe this is an inexpensive frame for the AF to get its wish.
Jump to postThe South China Sea is one of the most highly disputed territories in the world and I think no one wants to announce where the plane is as to not give up their capabilities and game plan in that area. C'mon man. Ya, the South China Sea is highly disputed. I'm sure there are warships from at least a...
Jump to postI flew CP's 763 from PEK to YVR (and then an A320 on to BOS). What I remember most was the plane's odd 1-2-2 J-class configuration.
Jump to postSometimes they start with a (relatively) low level guy (or gal), make him plead guilty to a lesser offense or give him immunity in exchange for information on higher level people, then they go to them and repeat, until they get as high as needed. It happens in DC all the time. That's right. Look at...
Jump to postI'm an av geek and tech geek. I'm also a business person who got to fly a BA Concorde long ago. But the days of businesses investing shareholder capital in something "cool" for the sake of "cool" are long over. And even back in the day, those who think that Concorde had a proven ...
Jump to postI think the main advantage of the 748 is that it's big but not TOO big. I think that's right. The size of the A380 always made it a niche aircraft and with COVID-induced hugely reduced traffic, the A380 is now even more nichey. Even the 748 is (and will be for the foreseeable future) too big for cu...
Jump to postGZM1 wrote:It gives the impression that the”experts” maintained equal distances from every theory because the case inspires fear. You know what I mean.
unscheduled wrote:unscheduled wrote:hinckley wrote:I don't. Really.
That's a misquote, I never wrote "It gives the impression that the”experts” maintained equal distances from every theory because the case inspires fear. You know what I mean."
That was GZM'S
And I don't know what he means either.
GZM1 wrote:unscheduled wrote:It gives the impression that the”experts” maintained equal distances from every theory because the case inspires fear. You know what I mean.
Yes, this the perfect answer to those who insist that he had planned it in such a way that it would remain a perfect mystery. Not if he had left such evidence in his nest,though. Oxymoron. I'm one of the people who believe that "the pilot dun it". But there's no such thing as perfection a...
Jump to postThe more I think about the OP's question, the more I think that Concorde has to be considered the biggest commercial failure. And as a business, commercial success or failure is the only thing that matters. Obviously, the French and British governments ended up picking up the tab, but if you conside...
Jump to postRespectfully, I don't think that "more" and "bigger" are innovations. Did you actually read the article? Neither I claimed "more" and "bigger" are innovations, nor does the article. I did. I read every bit of it. It's not an article btw. It's Airbus marketing...
Jump to postI brought this thread back up because there was new enquirers about the final location of the plane, so I'm not getting into this argument too much, but even though it's highly likely that the plane was brought down by a suicidal pilot, there's virtually no evidence, let alone any sort of "ove...
Jump to postThe British Indian Ocean Territory is very controversial, if not just for the fact its a colonial possession, but the fact that just around ten years they evicted all the natives and dumped them in Africa. Ya, I'm very familiar with the politics around that particular place. But it's the one place ...
Jump to postA new video on MH370 by Discovery Channel has looked into the idea of using acoustic sound waves created by the plane's impact to locate where it was. A curious 25 minute piece of all acoustic recordings (a military alliance between western countries) is missing from around the time the plane was t...
Jump to postSo, specifically, what knowledge was gained from the design and manufacture of the Airbus A380 that would not have been achieved had the aircraft not been produced? And which specific aircraft, and particular systems, are using that knowledge?e38 https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/passenger-aircraft/a...
Jump to postI'm sure these were tag-ons , , , one-stop service JFK-MAD-BCN or JFK-LIS-BCN. They likely were only allowed to transport through passengers.
Jump to postMine was in the late-90s/early-2000s internet go-go days. I was travelling almost every week on one to two day trips from BOS to SFO, LAX or LHR. First class domestically, business class internationally. Remember the AA 767 transcons with sheepskin-covered recliner seats up front?! In the other dire...
Jump to post@hinckley While I agree that the pilot might have been "suicidal", I don't agree that the suicide theory is simple. It also makes a lot of assumptions without hard evidence. I believe that there are usually multiple reasons for a plane to crash, usually multiple lapses of safety combined ...
Jump to postI also wonder if the US (and maybe China) have more information on this than they're willing to divulge, though the region where the plane eventually flew to is fairly isolated from anything so its a possibility that there's virtually no coverage there. I'm a believer in the principles of Occam's r...
Jump to postI am 100% sure that some military knows where the plane is. The plane was flying near the South China Sea. The amount of military activity between the Americans, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Malaysians means that someone has to know which way the plane went they just won't say so they don't reveal any ...
Jump to postThe flaperon that was recovered from MH370 was proved to have been deployed in the landing position. Why would a pilot on a suicide mission carry out a controlled ditching of his aircraft? If Zaharie was "just" on a suicide mission, he could've put the plane in a nosedive and ended the wh...
Jump to postWe know that the transponder was lost near the start, but communications between the plane and Inmarsat continued for several hours. The question is whether there's anything that could knock out a transponder but not the latter? I always assumed that the Inmarsat link was a tertiary communications ...
Jump to postSo EgyptAir didn’t go down by suicide, just terrible piloting like with AtlasAir? No. The EgyptAir pilot sent his plane into a nose dive and ended the ordeal (and his life) quickly. The Germanwings pilot chose a long, slow decent into a mountainside. I can't even imagine what that was like for the ...
Jump to postDon’t be so sure about the EgyptAir pilot. Remember the thread “Atlas Air 3591 Down at Trinity Bay, Texas” in early 2019? A Boeing 767-300 that mysteriously dived in the same way as the one of EgyptAir did? I noticed that nobody made any fuss about it nor tried to connect the two accidents although...
Jump to postLooking at all the evidence, MH370 was almost certainly pilot suicide and nothing more. The real problem with the pilot suicide theory is that the reason offered i.e. that the pilot’s friend and enemy of the regime Anwar so-and-so had been sentenced to spend years in jail and the pilot wanted to di...
Jump to postWhat was the hypothesis behind the aircraft's flight path before it headed south. Was the thought that it was avoiding radar detection? iirc, the thought was that by flying along the Malaysian-Thai border, each country would think it was the other's airplane. And to the extent either country even n...
Jump to postIs there anything new at all to report on this? It would be interesting to know if any other wreckage has been found washed up on any shores or if any govts or companies are planning any new searches? I'm guessing not... The only thing that I'm aware of is that Tony Abbott, the Australian PM at the...
Jump to postNot past airforce officer . He is a serving airforce officer. Responsibility must start from the top. The civilian government is just a puppet government with no real powers. If you have authority but no responsibility, these issues remain. It's a bit unfair to call the civilian government a puppet...
Jump to postWill we ever find the wreckage? Unlikely. Possible, but unlikely. If it's found, it will be by complete accident. This is saying the unsayable, but most mass murderers have the delusional idea that they'll be remembered forever. Well Zaharie may have actually pulled that off, masterminding the disa...
Jump to postI think that one of them extended the gear for additional drag during the descent. Then when they intercepted the glide slope, a crew member - could be the same or the other one - went through the approach routine "lower the gear" and moved the lever again. Since this is a routine event, ...
Jump to post1. Pilot Suicide -- Probably a 98% probability this is what happened. 2. Hijacking -- Probably a 1.9% chance this is what happened. 3. All Other Silly Conspiracy Theories -- About a 0.1% chance it happened any of those ways. Sounds about right. Hijacking could make sense as another explanation of a...
Jump to postThere's nothing about this event that isn't insane, but do you think that either the pilot or first officer or both thought they were going to go around since both the landing gear and the speed brakes were extended and then 5nm later, both were retracted? And then what?, they forgot about that and ...
Jump to postMy concern is that in every other example of pilot suicide, evidence of their state of mind came to light. In this case (if you ignore the BS that circulated in the early days, that has been refuted) it hasn't happened. First, the number of modern pilot suicides is very small. Three or four? That's...
Jump to postwe neither and lets be honest the idea that he wanted to do this only came up because it is the only way a suicide would fit the facts Said differently, the facts only support suicide. Said in another way, the information presented so far would only support suicide. Knowing where majority of the in...
Jump to postasdf wrote:we neither
and lets be honest
the idea that he wanted to do this only came up because it is the only way a suicide would fit the facts
The flaperon that was recovered from MH370 was proved to have been deployed in the landing position. Why would a pilot on a suicide mission carry out a controlled ditching of his aircraft? I believe that Zaharie wanted to pull off an Amelia Earhart-like mystery; a spectacular modern unsolved event ...
Jump to postIt's been a few years, so bear with me here...but as I recall from the various construction meetings I attended at the time, there was an issue of space with the same level dual bridges. Something like the aircraft would have to be parked further out, so they'd have been forced to shift the taxiway...
Jump to postE's A380 gates have been well discussed. Most of us who criticized them when they were built did so not because they were built, but because of the way in which they were built - dual bridges that could only be use for one aircraft type. Those of us who thought that was nuts then, certainly do now.
Jump to postItaly is highly dependent on the tourism sector and agriculture. The more you go South, the more this is marked. It's thus important to have a national airline that serves public interests. Could you explain the connectivity between these two statements? Dependence on tourism and agriculture = Impo...
Jump to postI don't think taxpayers and bondholders will be willing to shoulder this burden any longer. Alitalia was a symbol of Italy's postwar resurgence but it never adapted to the industry's changes, never plays by the rules, and has sucked the country dry for decades. At some point, that will end. Italy i...
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