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Just been to see Benny from maintenance in hospital. He was putting up one of those boards that tell you have many days since the last accident and it fell on him.

OFSO wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:18 pm

Evening walk over. Gale blowing, temperature in single figures. Missing mild UK.

It’s not that warm

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The Iranair A330 to Theran was back in LHR this afternoon, on a stand next to an American Airlines aircraft

Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:29 pm

Isn't the BEY diversion maybe a most unusual diversion decision from ops reason?

I thought so, but it looks like they’re trying again this morning

From the East apparently

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... a9cf7b48fa

Slight aside, had an absolute nightmare of a baggage offload yesterday on a BA TLV departure, apparently a passenger threatened a crew member, possibly not the best idea at the moment, which resulted in two passengers being offloaded along with their baggage, which was in 3 different containers, one...

Boac wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:48 pm

the infrastructure was not designed to cope with any significant rain.

Hmm! Sounds like the UK.

Only if the rain is from the wrong direction

Security is a lot more strict these days, especially after events like this one https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb ... evenmorris

and also several drugs busts over the years, white collar crime seems more prevalent these days with visa scams etc

They’ve had some in DXB today as well

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X0N9waR-tog

He was framed

Oh yea of little faith

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5e2vg8wzo

I’m waiting for the Orange One claim that he organised the eclipse and that his is the best eclipse ever

Whatever happened to the unwritten rule that, whatever happens down route stays down route [-X https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13281933/British-Airways-stewardess-forced-fly-home-Maldives-involved-drunken-fight-2-000-night-hotel.html?spot_im_scroll_to_comments=true&spot_im_highlight_immedia...

PP this is one of the reasons why you should always carry out your checks

https://aviation-safety.net/asndb/320752