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MH17 crash: Ukraine fighter pilot blamed by Russia 'kills himself'
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:52 pm
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Hmm.........
Only just noticed this from yesterday's BBC News
29 year old Ukrainian pilot 'shoots himself'....
Voloshyn was happily married and...
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It seems that Russia is still blaming this Ukrainian fighter pilot. This is the latest news from the beeb;
It will be interesting to see how this...
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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Fri May 25, 2018 1:15 pm
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Bizjet off runway in Honduras
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by Seenenough » Thu May 24, 2018 1:57 am
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Wonder what caused this.
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It is strange how the mind works and last night I appeared to lose the last bit of my mind left to lose by dreaming of interminable approaches to an...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Fri May 25, 2018 5:53 am
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Will the truth about Smolensk ever be discovered ?
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Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:00 am
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Found this on Sky News today: very interesting read/
:-?
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Yes, who knows the internal intrigues/plots that were in place.
The report is, as I said, undated and lacks certain other 'credentials' but if we...
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Last post by Boac
Wed May 23, 2018 12:45 pm
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Last post by OFSO
Wed May 16, 2018 3:39 pm
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Southwest uncontained engine failure
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Boac » Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:49 pm
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It had to happen sometime, I guess. Horrific for the lady, and I take it she has now died. It appears there are a lot more of these front-end...
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Some more detail about this sad accident.
DALLAS — The pilots of a Southwest Airlines jet struggled to handle the plane after an engine blew apart...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Fri May 04, 2018 4:10 pm
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ATR42, Fond-du-Lac, SK, crash
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:00 pm
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Crashed shortly after take-off last night. 1km into the forest, night, snow flurries, -19.
All 25 POB alive and accounted for; some serious enough to...
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Thanks Caco.
So, why take-off with ice on?
1. Time pressure - probably corporate - ignored it or didn't want to look.
2. Didn't think to look
3....
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:04 pm
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Problems at RR
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by
ian16th » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:28 pm
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If you have RR shares, hang on!
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Reading Stanley Hooker's autobiography 'Not Much of an Engineer' and he gives a pretty lucid evocation of how Rolls Royce effectively bankrupted...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:48 pm
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Engine surge/compressor stall
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Cacophonix » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:53 pm
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The press surged to more flammable conclusions and hyperbole than the engine on this Southwest Airlines flight departing from Salt Lake City...
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No idea in this case, if a boroscope inspection was carried out iaw the EMM and no findings were recorded then this may be a possible reason for...
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Last post by om15
Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:03 pm
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Algerian military jet goes down...
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Cacophonix » Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:30 am
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More than 100 people have been killed after an Algerian military plane crashed near the country's capital, state radio says.
The jet came down...
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Doesn't appear to be any fault in the aircraft among all those accidents, just bad weather, bad luck, and bad piloting and sh!t maintenance by dodgy...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:05 pm
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Did a Drone Do This?
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by
FD2 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:24 am
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From the New Zealand Press today:
Pilot says drone likely cause in Waihi plane crash
MATT SHAND
Last updated 13:56, March 29 2018
Pilot Rod...
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Finally:
Vaughn Before.jpg
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Last post by FD2
Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:30 am
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Hawk Down at RAF Valley
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Cacophonix » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:11 pm
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Pilot(s) ejected it seems... another sore back... trust both made it out safely.
A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said: We were called...
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Very basic 'steerage' but a bit short of 'steering time'? I had 11 seconds on the chute and was more interested in protecting my vitals from the...
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Last post by Boac
Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:07 pm
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Kathmandu
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by Slasher » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:25 am
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Just saw on the box a Dash 8 went in on approach.
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Mountain goat, oh, my...
Well, generally it's not funny of course, but...
(P.S I got very close to being beaten up by a Mum-goat on a mountain path...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:26 pm
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Turkish Corporate Jet Down...
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Cacophonix » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:07 pm
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Bad day for accidents in the Middle East and Turkey...
All 11 people who were on board a private Turkish jet that crashed in south-western Iran on...
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The aircraft operated on a flight from Sharjah, UAE to Istanbul, Turkey.
Understandable. Sharjah has been going downhill ever since I left there in...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:41 am
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Iranian Passenger Aircraft Down...
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Cacophonix » Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:39 am
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News coming in of an Iranian passenger aircraft with 60 POB having come down!
An Iranian plane with 66 people on board has apparently crashed near...
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Hasn't this analysis been done rather rapidly?
The wreckage was located on February the 19th and this is a preliminary report so while it may have...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:15 pm
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Turn Back
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by Sisemen » Wed Feb 28, 2018 6:41 am
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Any idea why the Fokker100 of QantasLink has turned back?
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=)) =))
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Last post by Sisemen
Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:11 pm
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Farty Pax
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by
limeygal » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:35 pm
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:-o
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I sympathise, Alison, but hopefully you were not needing a wee-wee at the time :))
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Last post by Boac
Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:32 am
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Saratov A148 at Moscow on Feb 11th 2018,
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Alisoncc » Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:55 pm
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Aviation Herald reporting:
A Saratov Antonov AN-148-100, registration RA-61704 performing flight 6W-703 from Moscow Domodedovo to Orsk (Russia) with...
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How about nailing some of those designers to the wall? :ymdevil:
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Last post by Boac
Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:30 pm
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Air France
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by
OFSO » Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:29 am
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On strike today (Feb 22nd,).
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I sometimes consider travelling Air France long haul because they often have competitive fares in premium economy but then I think: Nah, why should I...
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Last post by Capetonian
Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:17 am
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Just another of the 186 million reasons not to go to Nigeria, a real shithole country
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by Capetonian » Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:56 am
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Nigeria's Dana Air blames passenger after door falls off (Well, they would, wouldn't they?)
Passengers say the door was rattling during the flight...
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Dana Air denied that it was caused by a mechanical fault, and said the door could not fall off without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it.@...
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Last post by Slasher
Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:35 am
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.... but he had his toothpaste in a plastic packet
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by Capetonian » Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:40 pm
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Brown haired passenger flies to Germany on easyJet flight on his blonde GIRLFRIEND'S passport
Michael Randall, 23, managed to fly to Berlin using...
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.... but I'm sure he had his 100 cc. tube of toothpaste and his eye drops in a resealable transparent plastic packet so he presented no security risk...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:11 am
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Yet another f-up
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Boac » Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:22 pm
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Do we put this one down to the Trumpet? He has contributed so much to aviation safety in just a year.
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The highest loss of life in a non terrorist related accident occurred on the ground and it is likely to be repeated if these incidents continue...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:05 am
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I'm sorry - you CANNOT park there!
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Boac » Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:50 am
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Pegasus in Trabzon, 13/1/2018.
Pegasus.jpg
A bit too close for comfort!
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Well, that would certainly explain how it left the runway fast enough and sideways enough to head over the cliff.
I have had a unilateral TR failure...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:01 pm
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:17 pm
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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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