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Never mind the dozy pilots - WTF was the controller doing?
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Boac » Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:59 pm
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I cannot believe a qualified controller would clear an a/c to a height 145ft above an obstacle on the approach! Where do they find these folk? X(
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Whew! That was an anxious few hours..................... :))
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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:11 pm
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Look - BA doing chemtrails!
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Boac » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:49 pm
Chemtrails!.jpg
BA225, London-New Orleans has apparently sprayed Bedfordshire with lots of fuel! Anyone got a match..........?
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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:49 pm
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Jet Airways crew punch up
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Woody » Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:11 am
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How long into the flight did this occur :-ss
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Hmm- Fascinating and full of 'Eastern' mystery! The truth will probably never be known.
Apart from between the protagonists involved! :ymdevil:
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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:37 pm
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Tyre divorces 330. Doesn't get the house.
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by Slasher » Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:48 pm
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I'd say it was a maintenance issue.
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Tool so long because they didn't have any spares, and had to go looking for the one that fell off.
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Last post by Alisoncc
Fri Dec 29, 2017 12:49 am
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Flybe Nose Wheel Belfast
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Cacophonix » Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:46 pm
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Flye nose wheel issue. Looks like the crew made a very good fist of the landing. Avherald reports one slightly injured and I guess the rest of the...
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The aircraft was finaly flown back to Exeter in the last couple of weeks.
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Last post by Ibbie
Thu Dec 28, 2017 5:37 pm
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AF A380 at Goose Bay
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Wodrick » Sat Sep 30, 2017 9:58 pm
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BBC reporting this, AF A380 has diverted to Goose with this engine failure.
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I've made it a bit bigger.
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Last post by Wodrick
Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:15 pm
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Who was it?
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Woody » Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:07 am
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Do any of our Members in the Southern Hemisphere know who the “ well known businessman “ is?
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...a Qatar Airways flight was forced to land when a woman realised mid-flight that her husband had been unfaithful. The flight between Doha and Bali...
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Last post by Slasher
Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:58 am
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:44 am
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Last post by Ibbie
Sat Nov 18, 2017 9:22 am
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Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800
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probes » Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:43 pm
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"I’m trying to fly, but something went wrong at the moment. There is a car under the aircraft wing..."
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I did some work for Aerosvit, the predecessor to UIA. Apart from an extraordinary number of extraordinarily good looking women, there was very little...
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Last post by Capetonian
Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:40 pm
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Second Spanish Air Force fatal jet crash - F18 Torrejon
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:11 pm
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Crashed shortly after takeoff, apparent engine failure.
Translated report from Spain here
Most unusual.
The runway is one of the longest,...
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That vids been taken from an aircraft on finals to land at Barajas. Torreon AB is on your right and not very far away, but as Fox says, they usually...
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Last post by AtomKraft
Mon Oct 23, 2017 11:27 am
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Squawking 7700
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by Capetonian » Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:47 am
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I have always understood that squawking 7700 for emergency was to be used only if the aircraft and/or passengers were in danger, for example a...
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I was surprised by the number of 7700 squawks in the UK pinging up on the FlightRadar24 app on my iphone today. It turns out that dust from Ophelia...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:41 pm
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Ivory Coast Valan AN26 down...
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Cacophonix » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:16 pm
A Valan Air Cargo Antonov AN-26, registration ER-AVB performing a charter freight flight from Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) to Abidjan (Cote de Ivoire)...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:16 pm
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:08 pm
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Another airshow crash!
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Cacophonix » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:31 pm
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Capt Gabriele Orlandi, 36, was attempting to perform a loop-the-loop in his 85million euro Eurofighter Typhoon when he apparently misjudged the...
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Sad to hear about this accident and the pilot was clearly a seasoned professional too as Boac noted. Talking of airshow travails there can be no...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:46 pm
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Caernarfon Crash.
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Cacophonix » Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:27 am
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A pilot was killed at Caernarfon yesterday when a light twin was reported to have landed heavily, gear up, on the runway and then caught fire....
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The pilot in this crash has been named and some personal details given. One wonders whether some form of medical emergency overcame this poor chap?...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:19 pm
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Parallel Parking a Cessna!
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Cacophonix » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:19 pm
Apparently the 70 plus year old pilot suffered EFATO! Incipient spin into a tree!
Those Cessnas are hardy birds mind.
Caco
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:19 pm
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Tiger Moth at Compton Abbas
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om15 » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:41 am
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Sad news from Compton Abbas this weekend, Tiger Moths from here regularly chugged over my house, RIP to the two on board
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Little bit more information coming out about this accident. It looks like it was an EFATO! Sad for all concerned!
It is thought the pilot was a...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:31 pm
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Southend Hangar Fire
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Cacophonix » Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:00 pm
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Anybody have any details on the hangar fire at Southend Airport this morning? Smoke evident for miles around.
Caco
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R&N in TOP. Apparently a paint bay hangar. Photo looks terminal.
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Wed Aug 16, 2017 3:37 pm
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Sao Tome An-74 rejected take off!
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Cacophonix » Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:44 pm
A Cavok Air Antonov AN-74TK-100, registration UR-CKC performing a flight from Sao Tome (Sao Tome and Principe) to an unknown destination with 6 crew,...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:44 pm
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Hailstones in Turkey
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Cacophonix » Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:09 pm
If one doubts that GR and aircraft windscreens and radomes don't mix... I wonder about the airport weather radar in this case? Apparently he took off...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:09 pm
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Fisticuffs at Nice
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Ibbie » Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:09 pm
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More bad publicity for easyJet, as a passenger holding a baby, waiting for a delayed flight to Luton, is hit by airport worker at Nice.
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She said her 6ft 4in husband pulled the man off the apparent victim and "frogmarched" him away before police were called.
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:03 am
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LGW Air Rouge incident
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Woody » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:47 pm
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Here's the fails version of events, love the picture of LHR T3 near the end ~X(
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The Toronto-bound Boeing 767 had to circle in the sky to burn off and dump fuel before landing back at the airport to the relief of passengers. In...
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Last post by Capetonian
Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:42 pm
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Air Asia in Oz
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Woody » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:44 am
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Think they need to give up, seem to have loads of problems, this is the latest
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And now it's time to get your tin foil hats out. ......If you believe anything that the DM publishes
It's a conspiracy. ......... @-)
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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:42 pm
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Light twins When two engines aren't enough!
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Cacophonix » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:50 am
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I was apt to think about the false sense of security having another engine on some types of light twin when reading the following news. As any pilot...
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There is a school of thought that says the more engines an a/c has, the greater the chance of one of them developing a snag.
Simple statistics -...
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Last post by ian16th
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:25 pm
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