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Who only communicated in japanese according to swedes I've seen interviewed.Quote:
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Well they communicated enough to get everyone off the plane, didn't they?Quote:
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If this had been in the West or with predominately Western passengers, I daresay every fucker would have been trying to get their hand luggage, as happened in the fatal fire in Phuket a while back.
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Can't read thatQuote:
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Why don't you post it
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Jonas Deibe and his children, Anton and Ella Deibe, after they safely escaped the plane.
Point being,………everyone understood how to exit the plane
- A Swedish Teenager Was on Japan Airlines Flight 516. Here’s His Story.
Anton Deibe, 17, and his family were flying into Tokyo when their plane collided with a Coast Guard aircraft.
Anton Deibe, 17, a high school student from Stockholm, was on a trip with his family to Japan to celebrate his father’s 50th birthday. They were among the passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 when it collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday.
All the passengers and crew on Anton’s plane made it off alive.
Because the seating map for the plane was in Japanese, which neither Anton nor his family understand, they were not able to book seats together. Anton was sitting with his sister, Ella, 15, a few rows from the back of the plane. Ella had the window seat. Their father, Jonas Deibe, was sitting about seven rows ahead of them, and their mother, Kristin Deibe, was sitting two rows ahead of them.
They were following up a week of skiing in Niseko, Japan, with a week of sightseeing in Tokyo, which is where they were headed on Tuesday night when their plane caught fire.
“The flight was pleasant until we had almost arrived,” Anton said on Wednesday from a hotel in Tokyo. “We sat in the back on the left. Ella was looking out the window. I looked at the entertainment screen and saw that there were three minutes left until arrival. Then I leaned over to pack my jacket into my backpack.
“When I bent down, I could feel that it was extremely hot on the left side of my face. I looked to the left and saw fire and smoke outside all the windows on the left.
“Then, the plane started to shake, like there was strong turbulence. At the same time it got very hot inside and all the lights went out. It was pitch black. Not even the emergency lights shone. Only the light from the fire.”
He said he thought a bird might have hit the plane, but did not know what had happened. He said he felt the wheels bounce on the runway. The plane stopped quickly, he said.
“Everyone started yelling in Japanese. I didn’t understand anything,” he said. Still, “there was a lot less commotion than I would have thought. The passengers were calm. Everyone was worried and scared, of course.”
Anton said he learned later that it was right about where he was sitting that the collision with the other plane occurred, by the engine behind the wing.
“I had no idea that we had crashed with another plane,” Anton said.
He said the passengers could see smoke outside, “but then this smoke started to creep into the cabin. It smelled burned and like chemicals.”
He said that he used his hoodie to protect his nose and mouth.
“It felt like needles in your throat,” he said.
By this point, Jonas Deibe had moved back to an empty seat by his children. The flight attendants walked through the cabin with flashlights, Anton said.
“It became more and more difficult to breathe,” Anton said. “It was awful. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We just hoped that someone would open the emergency doors so we could jump out.”
Minutes later, the emergency exit doors were opened, Anton said.
“They were screaming in Japanese. We were all bent over. I think people crawled. I think that’s what we were supposed to do. People crawled behind me. In front of me, I couldn’t see anything. Everything went so damn fast. Dad crouched in front of me. I did the same. My sister was right behind me.” Their mother followed behind.
Exiting the plane via the emergency slide was its own challenge.
“It was a long drop,” said Anton, who had hand surgery before the trip and is wearing a cast on his right hand.
Once on the ground, the family ran from the plane as fast as they could and made it to a field of tall grass.
“We just kept running. We heard the engine still running and spitting fire, big flames of fire, around the plane. We just wanted to get as far away as possible.”
Anton escaped with only the outfit he was wearing. But the family is safe and is carrying on with their Japan trip.
“It was an awful experience,” Anton said. “It felt unrealistic, like being in a movie.”
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Almost the same, that I read.
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Something very fishy CSI TD what think you?
If he was a terrorist or spy etc would not have made himself known just slept in a hoody ?
Perhaps he was just a disposable mule who would hand something over at LAX knowing he would be retured posing as "Dazed and confused" where the bothering staff , fellow passengers etc come in.
I transit and pass ssecurity at Kastrup regularly worked for SAS long ago but thse days on vacation
Security is tighter than most , unlike NArita where I was ent behind security to visit an Office and Wellington where I had to warn security they had not checked International passengers.
If he was a neer do well could in theory have stowed away or with confederates /fake passes but with scans
I visited an Office at that airport in September and an armed Policeman had to call to unlock door from the upper deck lift corridor to the airline Offices.I could of course show my express lane bypass and real passports
Friendly efficient but as thorough as any first world airport.
I can only surmise a trial probe, or he had a boarding pass for another flight was a know show and printed a fake baording pass at the gate.Not impossible in some airport. No bag self check in on passport one, once in airside swap docs, which is why they recheck at the gate. In some airports arrivals transit mingle.
Idiots like this will ensure even longer examnation of docs.
I guess a fast lane machine readable chip will be marketed as away to fast track life.
As an honest person who dosn't wish a hijack to Cuba nor be a shoe bummer I would have no objection, but I understand not sure I'd want this regime to have every single part of my health and financial records, not because I have anything to hide more I don't trust their data security to lose or sell to scammers. UK election org just lost 40 milllion records as a recent example.
Electoral Commission hack exposed data of 40 million UK voters | TechCrunch
A Copenhagen Airport official stated that they are working with authorities in the U.S. investigating the incident.
“We take the matter very seriously, and it will be included in the work we continuously do to adjust and tighten our guidelines to improve security.”
Read that as extra vigilence if only 15 secondss per passsneger boarding 400 people !!! AArgh time to build personal drone or let them come to me, View from flat in Blekinge Sweden yesterday ecplain why I am here , Helge's said same In Denmark
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Human error is increasingly suspected to have caused Tuesday’s collision between a Japan Airlines jetliner and a Japan Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport.
According to communication records released by the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry on Wednesday, the JCG plane was not given permission to take off, raising the possibility that the JCG side misunderstood the instructions from air traffic control.
The Japan Transport Safety Board and other authorities are investigating how the fatal incident occurred.
The communication records show that shortly before the collision, an air traffic controller in charge of Runway C told the JCG aircraft in English, “Taxi to holding point C5.”
Taxiway C5 is located in front of Runway C. The air traffic controller only instructed the JCG plane to proceed as far as the taxiway, and did not give permission for it to enter the runway or take off. However, the aircraft proceeded onto the runway without staying on the taxiway.
Shortly before this, the controller communicated with the JAL plane and cleared it to fly toward Runway C, saying, “Cleared to land.”
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Japan Airlines (JAL) estimated on Thursday that the collision of its flight JL516 with the Coast Guard aircraft would result in an operating loss of about ¥15 billion (US$104.81 million).
The loss of the aircraft will be covered by insurance, the company said, adding it was assessing the impact on its earnings forecast for the financial year ending March 31.
Insurance industry sources have said U.S. insurer AIG was the lead insurer on a $130 million “all-risks” policy for the two-year-old plane that was destroyed by the fire. AIG declined to comment.
It was the first-ever hull loss globally for the A350 model, according to Aviation Safety Network. The type, made largely from carbon composite, entered commercial service in 2015.
Shares of JAL rose 0.4 per cent as trading resumed after the New Year’s holiday. They initially fell as much as 2.4 per cent before recovering from that drop.
Japan Airlines says Tokyo crash will cost it more than $100m
20 minutes seems an age to evacuate.
I had the misfortune to be on a flight that required an emergency evacuation on stand due to Iraqi Mirage planes bombing the airport. I was sat in the second row behind the front port door (a 747-200), so exited the plane and took shelter in the terminal within seconds. There were numerous passengers on the flight, mostly Indians, who insisted on taking all their luggage with them. It's difficult to keep track of time in these situations, but they took forever to get off. I will now only sit near an exit on a plane whenever I travel. On one occasion an airline (BA) told me I was near an exit, but on boarding I realised it was nowhere near. They refused to change it so I returned to the jet bridge and asked for my luggage back. The dispatcher soon found a seat for me near an exit.
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Chubby Brown: "I always get a seat in the rear. You never hear of a plane backing into a fucking mountain, do you?".
04.01.2024 - 04:53 UTC
Thai Smile (Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) operated its final services on December 31, 2023, with parent entity Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) now taking over the LCC's flights and finalising the merger of the two airlines' operations. The final flights were roundtrip services out of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport to Chiang Rai, Hat Yai, Krabi, and Khon Kaen.
Operating for eleven years, Thai Smile used a fleet of twenty A320-200s leased or subleased from Thai Airways to take over the parent entity's domestic operations and some regional flights. Thai Airways CEO Chai Eamsiri flagged the merger in early 2023, with the entire process taking less than one year. He said the merger and cessation of Thai Smile's operations is a strategic move designed to streamline operations and enhance service efficiency, including improving aircraft utilisation and contributing to the overall profitability of Thai Airways.
Since mid-2023, Thai Smile's A320-200s have been gradually repainted and returned to the Thai Airways' fleet. According to ch-aviation fleets advanced data, all but four aircraft had gone back to the parent airline by the end of 2023. Eamsiri says while Thai Airways has taken over Thai Smile's flights, any outstanding merger business, including transferring any remaining aircraft to the Thai Airways air operator's certificate, should be finalised by January 31, 2024.
The merger also sees Thai Airways return to domestic operations, which it stepped away from after the launch of Thai Smile. The flag carrier is back on nine domestic city pairs, including Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Phuket; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Chiang Mai; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Khon Kaen; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Hat Yai; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Chiang Rai; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi- Udon Thani; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Ubon Ratchathani; Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Krabi; and Bangkok Suvarnabhumi - Narathiwat.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...ght-operations
I was flying to Thailand from the states (stopover in Japan) with ANA (pretty sure it was ANA) years ago and smoke started to fill the cabin. They diverted us to another airport than originally scheduled, where we spent the night before placing us on another aircraft.Quote:
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I will carry some valuable but small items in a small backpack when traveling overseas that I wouldn’t want to leave. I will store that backpack in the overhead baggage area.
I am rethinking what I’ll travel with now.
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Maybe you were right afterall
^up late and lonely,........again?
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I'll be 13 next month, you know
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Pilots of a Japanese airliner that collided with a smaller plane at Tokyo Haneda Airport were initially unaware that their jet was on fire.
It was a flight attendant who informed them of the cabin fire, a Japan Airlines spokesperson told the BBC.
After that, the evacuation of all 379 on board Japan Airlines Flight 516 proceeded with life-saving precision.
Five of six people on board the smaller coastguard plane, a Bombardier Dash-8, died.
"Right after the plane touched down, the pilot felt a sudden shock, and lost control to stay in the runway. A fire took place but the pilots didn't recognise it in the beginning and learned about it [through the] cabin attendant," the JAL spokesperson said.
There were three pilots and 12 flight attendants on board when the incident took place. The aircraft's announcement system was damaged, leaving the crew to use megaphones and their own voices to shout instructions.
"The first thing cabin attendants did [after they realised there were] passengers who recognised that their plane was on fire, was to make them stay calm and not to stand up, which could make the escape very difficult. The announcement system was unusable so these instructions were made without it."
Japanese media have described the evacuation as a "miraculous 18 minutes". Passengers left their hand luggage, dashed to emergency exits and slid out of the aircraft before it was engulfed in flames.
"[As] smoke started to come into the cabin and spread out... cabin attendants [began shouting] at passengers, [saying]: 'Leave your belongings!', 'Take off your high heels', and 'Head down'," said the spokesperson.
Their "co-operation... was [the] key for all passengers [being able] to escape quickly and safely", they added.
Japanese authorities said late on Wednesday that the coastguard plane was not cleared for take-off on Haneda's runway. The plane was scheduled to deliver relief supplies to earthquake-hit areas.
According to officials, the JAL flight was cleared to land on runway 34R at Haneda while the coastguard aircraft was told to "taxi to holding point C5" - a place on the airfield's taxiway system where aircraft await permission to enter the active runway for take-off.
The transcript shows the coastguard aircraft acknowledged the call from air traffic to taxi to the holding point - its last transmission before the collision.
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^still nothing to add to the news. just want to be part of a current popular thread
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U.S. aviation safety officials will provide assistance to Japan in the reading of airplane recorders after a deadly collision between a Japan Airlines widebody jet and a small Coast Guard plane this week.
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters Japan had sought assistance with the Honeywell-manufactured recorders. "We will help on that," she said, adding it is unclear if the recorders will be brought to Washington for analysis or if NTSB personnel will travel to Japan to offer assistance.
All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 managed to leave the jet after it erupted in flames following Tuesday's crash with a De Havilland Dash-8 Coast Guard turboprop shortly after landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
A Honeywell spokesperson said it produced the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) used on the Canadian-made Dash-8, but not the flight data recorder (FDR).
L3Harris produced both recorders for the European planemaker's A350, according to a 2008 press release. L3 was not immediately available for comment.
Under international rules for aircraft investigations, known throughout the industry by their legal name "Annex 13," the probe is led by the country where the crash took place, but countries where the planes are manufactured can also participate.
Forensic experts from Airbus and French state agency BAE, along with a representative from Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) are investigating the accident, which killed five of the six Coast Guard plane crew members.
Japan, which is leading the investigation, can also ask other countries for assistance under international rules.
Alaskan blowout
I've ued out of that ancient airport to avoid hellish yvr lax sfo etc always good service to Hawaii for transit to sydney kl or narita
Alaska Airlines flight makes emergency landing after midair blowout of window | AP News
Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft late Friday, hours after a window and piece of fuselage on one such plane blew out in midair and forced an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. No one was seriously hurt.
The incident occurred shortly after takeoff and the gaping hole caused the cabin to depressurize. Flight data showed the plane climbed to 16,000 feet (4,876 meters) before returning to Portland International Airport. The airline said the plane landed safely with 174 passengers and six crew members.
“Following tonight’s event on Flight 1282, we have decided to take the precautionary step of temporarily grounding our fleet of 65 Boeing 737-9 aircraft.” Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in a statement. “My heart goes out to those who were on this flight – I am so sorry for what you experienced.”
Each of the aircraft will be returned to service after full maintenance and safety inspections, which Minicucci said the airline anticipated completing within days.
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“We are working with Boeing and regulators to understand what occurred tonight, and will share updates as more information is available,” he said.
The airline provided no immediate information about injuries. However, KPTV reported that according to the Port of Portland, the fire department responded and treated minor injuries at the scene. One person was taken for more treatment but wasn’t seriously hurt.
The plane was diverted about about six minutes after taking off at 5:07 p.m., according to flight tracking data from the FlightAware website. It landed at 5:26 p.m. The pilot told Portland air traffic controllers the plane had an emergency, was depressurized and needed to return to the airport, according to a recording made by the website LiveATC.net.
A passenger sent KATU-TV a photo showing the hole in the side of the airplane next to passenger seats. Video shared with the station showed people wearing oxygen masks and passengers clapping as the plane landed.
Passenger Evan Smith was on the flight and described the moment the blowout occurred.
“You heard a big loud bang to the left rear. A whooshing sound and all the oxygen masks deployed instantly and everyone got those on,” he told KATU.
Smith said a boy and his mother were sitting in the row where the window blew out. The boy’s shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane, he said.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration said they will investigate the incident.
The plane involved rolled off the assembly line and received its certification just two months ago, according to online FAA records. The plane had been on 145 flights since entering commercial service on Nov. 11, said FlightRadar24, another tracking service. The flight from Portland was the aircraft’s third of the day.
Boeing said it was aware of the incident, working to gather more information and ready to support the investigation.
The Max is the newest version of Boeing’s venerable 737, a twin-engine, single-aisle plane frequently used on U.S. domestic flights. The plane went into service in May 2017.
Two Max 8 jets crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people and leading to a near two-year worldwide grounding of all Max 8 and Max 9 planes. The planes returned to service only after Boeing made changes to an automated flight control system implicated in the crashes.
Last year, the FAA told pilots to limit use of an anti-ice system on the Max in dry conditions because of concern that inlets around the engines could overheat and break away, possibly striking the plane.
Max deliveries have been interrupted at times to fix manufacturing flaws. The company told airlines in December to inspect the planes for a possible loose bolt in the rudder-control system.
Work has begun at Tokyo's Haneda Airport to clear a runway of debris from the Japan Airlines passenger jet that collided with another plane there on Tuesday.
The JAL aircraft collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane soon after landing on Runway C on Tuesday evening. The coast guard plane was on the runway at the time.
Both aircraft burst into flames. Five of the six coast guard members on board died in the accident, while the surviving pilot sustained serious injuries. Fifteen of the jet's passengers were hospitalized.
Debris of the two aircraft was left there for inspections by the Japan Transport Safety Board.
On Friday morning, heavy machinery was brought to the site to start the job. The removal of the coast guard aircraft had begun late Thursday afternoon.
Japan Airlines said the debris will be cut up using the machines and moved to the company's hangar at the airport.
It added that it hopes to complete the removal as soon as Sunday. The transport ministry will then check the runway before it reopens.
The accident left all of the airport's four runways closed at one point. Three of them reopened later on Tuesday, but the closure of Runway C has caused many flight cancellations during the busy New Year holidays.
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Canadian safety watchdog pitching in on probe into fatal Japan Airlines crash
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is taking part in an investigation by Japanese authorities into a fatal crash on a Tokyo runway that involved two airplanes, including one made in Canada.
In an email, the safety watchdog says a representative along with technical advisers from Transport Canada, De Havilland Canada and Pratt & Whitney Canada will offer up information on the destroyed Dash 8 aircraft and its engines.
A Japan Airlines jet caught fire after slamming into the Bombardier-made coast guard aircraft Tuesday evening as the passenger plane was landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport. An orange fireball erupted as Japan Airlines Flight 516 tore down the runway, swathed in flames and spewing grey smoke.
Within 20 minutes, all 379 passengers and crew members slid down the Airbus A350 jetliner's emergency chutes and survived.
The pilot of the coast guard plane — a Dash 8 turboprop that had not yet received permission to use the runway — evacuated with injuries, but five crew members were killed.
The Dash 8 is a 40-year-old series of regional planes manufactured by De Havilland Canada, which Bombardier owned for 27 years before selling the turboprop program in 2019.
^ If it's a Boeing, I'm not fucking going.
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A passenger has described the moment a window and chunk of fuselage blew out of a passenger plane in mid-air shortly after take-off in the US state of Oregon.
Alaska Airlines passenger Evan Smith said a boy and his mother were sitting in the row where the window blew out and the boy's shirt was torn off him and sucked out of the plane.
"You heard a big loud bang to the left rear. A whooshing sound and all the oxygen masks deployed instantly and everyone got those on," he told local broadcaster KATU.
Alaska Airlines grounds all Boeing 737-9 MAX planes after mid-flight window blowout | US News | Sky News
A Coast Guard plane was making its third emergency trip to an earthquake zone within 24 hours when it collided with a passenger jet at a very busy Haneda airport, a Coast Guard official told Reuters.
The official declined to be named due to an ongoing investigation into the runway crash between the De Havilland Dash-8 turboprop and a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 passenger jet. Five of the six Coast Guard crew died but all 379 people on the JAL plane escaped.
Details of the Coast Guard plane's movements before the collision have not previously been reported.
The surviving pilot from the Coast Guard crew is under scrutiny after authorities released control tower transcripts appearing to show he was ordered to enter a holding area near the runway before the crash occurred.
He said he had permission to enter the runway where the Japan Airlines (JAL) plane was landing, the Coast Guard said on Wednesday, acknowledging there was no indication of that in the transcripts.
It is unclear whether the volume of airport traffic or the emergency response to the earthquake that struck late afternoon on 1 January, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 84 people, were factors in the accident.
Aviation experts say airplane accidents usually involve multiple variables and the failure of several safety guardrails.
In the 24 hours before the collision, the Coast Guard aircraft had already made two round trips from Haneda to the quake zone, a 3.5 hour survey of the area shortly after the magnitude 7.6 quake struck on 1 January, and a flight carrying rescue workers that returned early on 2 January, the official said.
Reuters verified the timings with flight tracking data on adsbexchange.com.
Tokyo Haneda is the world's third busiest airport, according to OAG, a UK-based travel industry data provider. Flight schedules data from Cirium analysed by Reuters showed an average of 1290 flights departed and arrived at Haneda daily in December.
On the day of the accident, a public holiday in Japan, the airport was at full capacity, said Shigenori Hiraoka, director general of the Civil Aviation Bureau.
It was no ordinary day for the Coast Guard either.
The doomed plane had early that morning returned with a different crew from a mission taking relief workers to an area devastated by the earthquake, the Coast Guard official also told Reuters.
Thousands of rescue workers were scrambled to respond to the disaster.
Captain Genki Miyamoto, 39, and his crew were preparing to take the plane - one of four stationed at the Coast Guard base at Haneda - back to the earthquake zone loaded with food and water.
The aircraft arrived back at Haneda from its second mission at 2.30am local time and left the hanger of the base again at 4.45pm, the official said.
The collision occurred at 5.47pm, authorities said.
In normal times, the Coast Guard tends to fly mid-morning when runways are less busy, the official said, adding the airport was "very busy" on the day of the accident.
Miyamoto, the pilot, also had a busy schedule.
The day before, he had been on a 7-hour mission to Japan's southernmost island Okinotori, where he had been surveying a Chinese vessel off its waters. He returned around 5pm, just after the earthquake struck.
At that point, his mission the next day was not scheduled, the official said.
Miyamoto suffered severe burns as a result of the crash and could not be reached for comment.
The official said he had been a captain for nearly 5 years and had clocked up 3641 hours of flight time.
Some more info on that Alaskan Airways incident after a checl on pprune.
It was a 737-9 Max and only recently delivered. The faultu section can have an optional emergency door fitted but not required for Alaskan configuration. A plug is fitted instead. Looks like this plug was not installed corrrectly when manufactured (speculation). Luckily there was no-one occupying the window seat at the time.
Boeing should give the poor kid in the middle seat free tickets on all Boeings for life after this.
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Not to be trusted
Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX-9 planes grounded globally after hole torn open midflight
Alaska Airlines is grounding all 65 of its Boeing 737 MAX-9 aircraft after a harrowing in-flight emergency Friday night left a gaping hole in its fuselage, exposing passengers to the open air.
The big picture: The incident, which didn't end in injuries or fatalities, led the Federal Aviation Administration to require operators of about 171 airplanes worldwide to ground their planes until they were inspected.
The requirement was issued as part of an Emergency Airworthiness Directive and inspections are expected to take four to eight hours per aircraft, the FAA said in a statement Saturday.
I'm surprised they're not grounding all of the flying coffins. Was this someone who didn't put some bolts back in properly or another design flaw from their botched, rushed attempt at an A32neo/ceo?
After all, it took ten years to bring the new Airbus to market.
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The Federal Aviation Administration later said it would order the temporary grounding of some Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft operated by some US airlines or in US territory.
Boeing said it "fully supports" the administration's decision to require inspections of 737-9 MAX planes "with the
same configuration" as the aircraft that was forced to land.
Alaska Airlines mid-air Boeing blowout: What next for flights and 737 aircraft, according to experts | US News | Sky News
^little late,..........again :)
Transport safety officials are searched for a voice recorder from the severely burned fuselage of a Japan Airlines plane, seeking information on what caused a collision with a small coastguard plane on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport.
On Saturday, heavy machinery was working for a second day to remove debris of the burned Airbus A350 for storage in a hangar to allow the runway to reopen. Wreckage from the coastguard plane has already been cleared.
He said the airport’s traffic control operators will create a new position for monitoring aircraft movement on runways beginning on Saturday. There has been speculation that controllers might not have paid attention to the coastguard plane’s presence on the runway when they gave the JAL plane permission to land.
Experts from the Japan Transport Safety Board on Friday walked through the mangled debris of the Airbus A350-900 which remains on the runway.
They have secured the flight and voice data recorders from the coastguard’s Bombardier Dash-8 plane and a flight data recorder from the JAL jet to find out what happened in the last few minutes before Tuesday’s fatal collision.ransport minister Tetsuo Saito said officials were aiming to reopen the runway on Monday.
Happy news for Norwegian mongers, er I mean tourists.
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Norse Atlantic Airways, has confirmed the continuation of its highly successful direct flights from Oslo to Bangkok in the upcoming summer 2024 season. Following a highly anticipated launch in the winter of 2023, this route has quickly become a traveller favourite, connecting two vibrant cities and catering to the increasing demand for affordable direct flights to Thailand.
Air101: Norse, Atlantic Airways extends direct flights from Oslo to Bangkok in Summer 2024
Japanese authorities have announced plans to reopen runway 34R at Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND) on Jan. 8. The runway was closed in the wake of a fatal aircraft collision between Japan Airlines (JL) flight 516 and a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft that occurred early Jan. 2; airport officials had determined that runway 34R required repair work as a result of the accident. The closure has disrupted domestic flights at the facility, particularly on Japan Airlines (JL) and ANA All Nippon Airways (NH); however, there has been no impact on international flight operations.
Delays and cancellations will likely continue to impact domestic flights serving HND for several hours after the runway reopens as carriers move to clear their passenger backlogs and reposition aircraft.
United Airlines has found loose bolts and other “installation issues” on multiple 737 Max 9 aircraft, it said on Monday, referring to the Boeing model that has been grounded after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines-operated plane mid-flight over the weekend.
The industry publication Air Current reported that United found discrepant bolts on other parts on at least five panels that were being inspected following the accident. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing declined to comment.
“Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug. For example, bolts that needed additional tightening. These findings will be remedied by our Tech Ops team to safely return the aircraft to service,” United said in a statement.
A cabin panel on a brand-new Alaska Airlines 737 Max blew out on Friday at 16,000ft, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing shortly after its takeoff from Portland, Oregon. No serious injuries were reported. A chunk of the fuselage – weighing 63lb (28.5kg) – was later found in an Oregon teacher’s backyard.
Woops there goes anuffa wubbaseal
Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 Flight Turns Back Due to Cockpit Window Crack - News En.tempo.co
TEMPO.CO, Tokyo - A domestic flight of Japan's All Nippon Airways (9202.T) returned to its departure airport on Saturday, Jan. 13, after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair, a spokesperson for the airline said.
Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport but headed back to the Sapporo-New Chitose airport after the crack was found on the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, the spokesperson said, adding there were no injuries reported among the 59 passengers and six crew.
The aircraft was not one of Boeing (BA.N)'s 737 MAX 9 airplanes. These have been in the spotlight after a cabin panel broke off a new Alaska Airlines jet in mid-air last week.
"The crack was not something that affected the flight's control or pressurization," the ANA spokesperson said.
The U.S. aviation regulator on Friday extended the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes indefinitely for new safety checks and announced it will tighten oversight of Boeing itself.
- Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger reflects on 15 years since ‘Miracle on the Hudson’
Monday marks 15 years since Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed a plane on the Hudson River in New York and saved the more than 150 people who were on board.
He joined MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on The 11th Hour Saturday to reflect on the “Miracle on the Hudson” and his life since he became known for his heroic act.
“It really took everyone involved. My crew, the passengers themselves, to rescuers, the first responders, all of it, responders from New York and New Jersey, it took so much cooperation,” Sullenberger said. “Everyone involved had to rise to the occasion and understand how serious this was and what they had to do and make it their mission to make sure that every life was saved.”
The pilot said his life changed instantly that day in 2009, when his plane struck a flock of birds shortly after taking off from LaGuardia International Airport in Queens and lost power to the engines.
He decided to land the plane in the shallow area of the Hudson River near Midtown Manhattan. Boats rescued all passengers who stood on the plane’s wings, and only a few people sustained injuries, he recalled.
The National Transportation Safety Board called it the most successful emergency water landing in history.
Sullenberger, now retired, said he recently met with his former passengers and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles at a panel that was “very rewarding.”
“It was also wonderful to fill in the gaps in what I witnessed personally,” the former pilot said. “By hearing each of their stories and of course, as you can imagine, depending upon where they were sitting in the airplane, they had different experiences.”
“And so it was really fascinating to hear what they thought, what they felt, what they did, what they saw and how they reacted to the flight attendants’ orders,” he added.
Sullenberger also recently met with the first responders who helped to rescue the pilots and passengers for a reunion, since he hadn’t seen them since the incident.
Skiles said it was his first trip outside of training and he had just qualified to be a co-pilot on the Airbus 320 the Friday before.
He is now a Captain and still a pilot to this day, CBS News reported.
JAL to preserve part of aircraft from Haneda Airport collision
Japan Airlines is considering preserving part of the jetliner burned after colliding with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport last week as a reminder of the fatal accident to raise safety awareness within the company, a JAL official said Wednesday.
The collision on a runway at the airport killed five of the six people aboard the coast guard's Bombardier DHC8-300 aircraft and left its captain severely injured, while all 379 passengers and crew on the JAL Airbus A350-900 managed to escape.
The carrier will formally decide on whether to keep part of the wreckage depending on the course of the investigation by the Japan Transport Safety Board and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the official said.
Even if JAL decides to save it, the company is likely to keep only a selected portion of the remains of its aircraft, given the extensive damage and high storage costs.
JAL is known for showcasing at its facility in Tokyo parts of the aircraft and personal belongings from a crash in 1985 that remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, with 520 lives lost.
NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works recently unveiled the X-59 experimental aircraft, designed and built to reduce a loud sonic boom, associated with faster-than-sound flight, to a quiet sonic thump. The X-59 now moves closer to its first flight - a step toward making commercial supersonic flight over land a reality for everyone. Researchers on NASA’s Quesst mission will work to understand people’s reactions to the X-59’s thump and give that data to regulators, who will then consider writing new sound-based rules to lift the ban on commercial supersonic flight over land.
Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights
Uncontained engine failure... oops.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo plane made an emergency landing in Miami late Thursday shortly after departure after suffering an engine fire.
The plane with five crew members safely returned and no injuries were reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The FAA said a post-flight inspection showed a softball-size hole above the engine, while the NTSB said it "has opened an investigation and is collecting information to evaluate and determine scope of the investigation."
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American Airlines flight attendant punched, officers assaulted, police say
A man assaulted an American Airlines flight attendant and later kicked and spit on police officers last week during a rowdy flight that was diverted to Amarillo, Texas, according to criminal complaint submitted by the FBI.
Keith Fagiana started an argument with a fight attendant during a flight on Jan. 3 from Dallas to Bozeman, Mont. last week, “yelling expletives” after he was asked to stop kicking the seat in front of him. Fagiana then punched the flight attendant multiple times before being restrained by nearby passengers and crew in flex cuffs, per the complaint.
When police took Fagiana off the plane in Amarillo, he complained of the cuffs hurting him and then kicked an officer in the groin and spit on another before while the cuffs were being changed, the complaint alleges.
He was charged with interference with a flight crew, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.