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More Boeing Bad News
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PHXPhlyer » Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:20 am
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Yes, Go Ahead And 'Nationalize' Boeing With A Bailout.
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Never let Airbus ever again hear...
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Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:31 pm
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Shoreham Air Show Plane Crash
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Dushan » Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:45 pm
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Sad news from the air show. TV images look horrific.
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Ohmigawd!!! Not the restart of the QNH versus QFE discussion again? Aaaaarrrgh ! ! 😱
I was tempted to try and post a METAR but didn't dare...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:25 pm
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Piper Malibu missing north of Alderney!
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Cacophonix » Tue Jan 22, 2019 6:56 am
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An air and sea search has been launched after a plane disappeared from radar over the English Channel.
Rescue teams were scrambled to waters north...
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An extremely thorough report.
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Last post by Boac
Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:28 pm
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Australian government charter light aircraft down...
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:10 am
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Five people on a government charter flight died when their light plane crashed trying to land near the Cape York community of Lockhart River in far...
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No offence intended, Pinky.
None taken M'Lady. :-bd
BN2A only acceptable aerie for PNG and FNQ bush pilots.
Would tend to agree with that....
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:20 am
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Nah! Bit of speedtape and couple of rivets................
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Boac » Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:34 pm
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People DO over-exaggerate sometimes.
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Should have been on the I bent it thread. . Bulgy armpits on B-52.
Both threads are dealing with the issue in many ways, bad taxiing and parking...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:56 pm
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I bent it, to be sure.
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Boac » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:30 am
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Whoops!
Anyone want any scrap metal? Paddy McGuinness has some in Shannon town. :))
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How tough is the 747... bend it like Beckham!
There were two serious injuries on board: a fracture and laceration of a foot, and an acute back...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:17 pm
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Last post by AtomKraft
Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:37 am
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Last post by Boac
Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:04 am
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Potholing at Gatwick
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Boac » Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:34 pm
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A minor ripple in the smooth running this afternoon with a few fuel diversions to STN - rumoured to be due to a pothole developing in the runway....
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It used to be a joke amongst LGW based crews that the contractors who surfaced and resurfaced the main runway were only practising for their next job...
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Last post by barkingmad
Fri Mar 06, 2020 2:28 pm
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Last post by AtomKraft
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:52 am
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Toxic Cabin Air.
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barkingmad » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:19 am
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A problem which has been “aired” for many years, formerly most reports emanating from the B757 and Bae146 fleets but looks like this Airborne Systems...
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So is this due to an understandable reluctance on the part of airlines, manufacturers and XAAs to properly prosecute the investigations into such...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:51 am
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How not to do a crosswind landing
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Boac » Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:46 pm
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Pick it up around 45 secs, ignore the 'commentary' and feel very sorry for the pax and the gear.
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'Crabbing': Why your pilot might land sideways in high wind
Gosh ! ! I wish I’d known this before when I was in service as an ordinary line dog?...
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Last post by barkingmad
Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:37 pm
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Cabin Fumes
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llondel » Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:07 am
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Not appeared on their website yet, but the BBC radio news at 4am GMT has a top story about cabin fumes, citing a BA flight where the captain had to...
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Suggest thread merge? 🤔
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Last post by barkingmad
Thu Feb 27, 2020 8:41 am
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Pilotless commercial jets?
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Jan 22, 2020 3:37 pm
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Pilotless commercial jets?
No....1 Pilot + 1 Dog :))
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The number of times my entertainment system has gone down I would not trust a 'virtual window' and I am not sitting in a windowless tube.
Avoid...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:33 am
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Pegasus the winged horse?
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Boac » Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:56 pm
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Nasty accident at Istanbul but reportedly, amazingly, no fatalities.
I'll leave someone else to post the METAR but merely 'observe' the choice of...
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Here is the statement of Flight Safety Foundation:
Statement
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:44 pm
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Captain didn't read NOTAMS...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:48 pm
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Hara-kiri for the Captain... Although I give him full credit for being deaf to the repeated pointed questioning by ATC. Pleading the 5th...
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It was a hull write off. BA effectively brought this air-frame to the front of the queue of the B747's that were scheduled for parting out, and the...
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Last post by ian16th
Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:53 am
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Four dead as two planes collide in Australia
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ricardian » Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:33 pm
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Four people have been killed after two planes collided midair in the Australian state of Victoria, police have confirmed.
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I read that elsewhere and saw it was at Mangalore, which I thought was in India.
There is a Mangalore in India, but this tragedy took place in the...
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Last post by Capetonian
Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:42 pm
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Bad News For Airbus
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:28 pm
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Airbus reports billions in losses after corruption fines
Airbus has reported its first loss in ten years after paying fines over corruption...
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Yes, because saving a few $ can lead to losing many $....bencounters never get this, knowing as they do the cost of everything and the value of...
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:55 am
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Syrian troops almost shoot down Syrian passenger aircraft
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Capetonian » Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:24 am
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Syrian troops nearly shot down an airliner attempting to land in Damascus in the confusing aftermath of Israeli airstrikes early Thursday morning.
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Ouch - that looks a bit unpleasant. Thought to be Turkish AA and a Syrian chopper over Al-Nayrab. It looks a bit like an imminent Turkey/Syria bash....
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Last post by Boac
Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:27 am
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Plane Murder - Ouch
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:47 pm
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I was pulled by my collar kicking and screaming into the Airbus but thought I’d be only on the bloody thing for a couple of years, then revert back...
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Last post by Slasher
Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:36 pm
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Last post by Boac
Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:17 pm
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MH370
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probes » Sun Aug 30, 2015 4:14 pm
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ok, now that lots of water has flown into the ocean - what do you think happened? Could it really have been a cunning plan by the Capt who was...
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The latest from the DM including a precis of all the wacky theories;
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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Sat Feb 08, 2020 1:53 pm
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Engine failure? I'll drink to that
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Boac » Fri Jan 31, 2020 4:00 pm
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Initial rumours that the loss of an engine on Delta DL159 on 23rd Jan on an ETOPS sector were caused by spillage of a drink on the centre console...
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F A O Flight Management’s next meeting;
Alas it doesn’t delete the requirement for a sweet-smelling nymphet to pop in to the flight deck every 20...
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Last post by barkingmad
Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:29 am
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SAA subsidiary Mango drops fairing ...
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:17 pm
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A Mango Boeing 737-800, registration ZS-SJC performing flight JE-152 from Cape Town to Johannesburg (South Africa), was climbing through about 9000...
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Yes, GG, it was Nationwide (code CE). I used to fly with them a lot, at one time they did JNB-LGW. A good airline. Vernon Munnik? I remember the...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:02 pm
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Air Canada aircraft ingests debris...
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:30 pm
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Air Canada flight AC837 departed Madrid Barajas Adolfo Suárez airport to fly to Toronto when the incident occurred.
Spanish pilots’ union Sepla...
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OFSO disagrees.
And thick fog at the airport.
TGG - I'm disappointed - just cannot rely on anybody it seems. :))
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Last post by Boac
Thu Feb 06, 2020 8:04 am
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