FAA investigating substantial damage to Boeing 737 Max in 'Dutch roll' incident
Dutch roll is the name given to a potentially dangerous lateral asymmetric movement, supposedly inspired by the movements of ice skaters.
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SW plane plunges within 400 feet of ocean after an aborted landing at Lihue
whoopsies
Airline ‘adjacent’, but DEFINITELY worth reading, and knowing about. (The other links in the article are fascinating, Hertz is a serious bunch of shit-weasels).
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Hertz Nightmare: Customer Fined $436 Before They Even Rented The Car - View from the Wing
A Hertz customer accomplished a new feat in the annals of rental car company disservice, actually being charged for a red light ticket before even renting the vehicle.
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Oh yeah, one time I rented from them and they thought the previous person still had it. They couldn't "fix" this in their system, so it ended up being totally free...and I could have sold the car on the black market.Airline ‘adjacent’, but DEFINITELY worth reading, and knowing about. (The other links in the article are fascinating, Hertz is a serious bunch of shit-weasels).
Hertz Nightmare: Customer Fined $436 Before They Even Rented The Car - View from the Wing
A Hertz customer accomplished a new feat in the annals of rental car company disservice, actually being charged for a red light ticket before even renting the vehicle.
fucksakes.... got to work just as this came up on the intel dashboard.
Going to be a busy night, 1st event update to the misister already sent.
Flames seen coming from Virgin aircraft over Queenstown, witnesses heard loud bangs - NZ Herald
Going to be a busy night, 1st event update to the misister already sent.
Flames seen coming from Virgin aircraft over Queenstown, witnesses heard loud bangs - NZ Herald
so this tells me that there is no fire break between the engine pylon (like expanding fire resistant foam is required for openings in building construction) and the passenger cabin. glad I don't fly anywhere
There absolutely is, but pressurization systems use bleed air from the engines which also runs through the environmental air conditioning packs as well. This can be shut off and one engine is sufficient, but if left on, anything burning in-cowl could theoretically go into this line and into the cabin. This isn't fire, this is smoke and fumes.
Ahh yes Boeing 's commitment to quality control https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/astronauts-stranded-in-space-due-to-multiple-issues-with-boeings-starliner-and-the-window-for-a-return-flight-is-closing
American Airlines Suspends Employees Involved In Removing Black Men from Flight Over ‘Offensive Body Odor’ as Stocks Plummet and CEO Promises to 'Regain Trust'
Several American Airlines employees have been suspended following a humiliating incident in January in which every Black man was removed from an airline
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Korean Air flight drops almost 27,000ft in 15 minutes injuring 17 people
Passengers on the Korean Air flight KE189 arrived safely in Taiwan on Sunday
www.independent.co.uk
That's pretty normal time to descend that far. At first 35,000 or whatever the initial decent rate is around 4000fpm, it gets less as the wind gets thicker as you get lower.Korean Air flight drops almost 27,000ft in 15 minutes injuring 17 people
Passengers on the Korean Air flight KE189 arrived safely in Taiwan on Sunday
The old 3:1 rule is to plan out a 280kt descent, which is what most airliners shoot for, for every 1000 feet of difference between cruise and your altitude restriction/approach altitude, you need 3 miles to descend. So 27 thousand feet would mean starting 81 miles back, and at 280kts, it would take about 13 min or so.
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Actually, no, you don't. Most airlines teach put the autopilot on, wheel down the altitude in the setting-window, set the autopilot and go. Pilots were doing way too many crazy things during emergency descents with poor aircraft control, or even losing control. Much better to let the computer descend it, safely. As I said before, you are descending into thicker air pretty damn fast at first. Admittedly, I did learn this while flying a 737.
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