Thread: Airline News

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Asiana crash pilot names released

Fucking hell socal were you shacked up in your LB's shack in Isaan for the last few months or something?

Even if it's old news, it's truly ironic how the politically correct morons made such a big deal out of these names, yet when the FAA came out with a truly racist directive that no 2 foreign airliners are allowed to land at SFO simultaneously, no one said a thing. Why?

Besides, if I had fucked up as badly as these pilots did, I would prefer they use false names no matter how unflattering they were.

Boeing to investigate new Dreamliner wiring fault.
Boeing has said that it will investigate the wiring defect that was found in a fire extinguisher system on three of its 787 Dreamliner jets.

The fault was found on jets operated by Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA).

After ANA reported the fault on Wednesday, rival Japan Airlines turned back a 787 plane travelling to Helsinki from Tokyo to check the wiring.
BBC News - Boeing to investigate new Dreamliner wiring fault

Originally Posted by klong toey

Boeing has said that it will investigate the wiring defect that was found in a fire extinguisher system on three of its 787 Dreamliner jets.

How very considerate of it.

My first flight on a 380. Downstairs at the front, very nice aeroplane.

Originally Posted by OhOh

My first flight on a 380. Downstairs at the front, very nice aeroplane.

Has proper wiring too.

Dreamliner Dynamic Wiring Diagrams.A special tool for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner allows
airline maintenance teams to access customizable wiring
diagrams quickly and easily. This new approach is designed
to help airlines increase safety, improve maintenance
efficiency, and decrease maintenance costs.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aer.../AERO_Q208.pdf

Emirates reveals more summer 2014 service reductions.
Bangkok, from six to four daily; Colombo, from 17 to seven weekly; Delhi, from four to three daily; Doha from 42 to 20 weekly; Karachi, from five to four daily; Kuala Lumpur, from four to three daily; Kuwait City, from 35 to 27 weekly; Mumbai, from five to four daily; Riyadh, from four to two daily; Seychelles, from 12 to seven weekly; Tehran from three to two daily; and Vienna, from 13 to six weekly.
Emirates reveals more service reductions during Dubai airport runway maintenance - Business Traveller

Originally Posted by klong toey

Emirates reveals more summer 2014 service reductions.
Bangkok, from six to four daily; Colombo, from 17 to seven weekly; Delhi, from four to three daily; Doha from 42 to 20 weekly; Karachi, from five to four daily; Kuala Lumpur, from four to three daily; Kuwait City, from 35 to 27 weekly; Mumbai, from five to four daily; Riyadh, from four to two daily; Seychelles, from 12 to seven weekly; Tehran from three to two daily; and Vienna, from 13 to six weekly.
Emirates reveals more service reductions during Dubai airport runway maintenance - Business Traveller

They're adding Clark in October.

What's wrong with Boeing these days, this sounds serious:

Incident: Airbridge Cargo B748 near Hong Kong on Jul 31st 2013, both left hand engines surged at same time, one right hand engine damaged too
By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Aug 6th 2013 17:24Z, last updated Wednesday, Aug 21st 2013 16:54Z

An Airbridge Cargo Boeing 747-800, registration VQ-BGZ performing freight flight RU-349 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Hong Kong (China), was enroute at FL410 about 80 minutes prior to estimated landing when both left hand engines (GEnx) surged simultaneously, engine #2 (inboard) temporarily shut down and auto-started again. The aircraft continued to Hong Kong for a safe landing on all 4 engines about 80 minutes later.

Rosaviatsia reported on Aug 6th 2013 that the aircraft entered a zone of dramatic temperature fluctuations, the temperature changing between -53 and -33 degrees C, when the engines surged, #2 spontaneously shut down and auto-started again without crew intervention. Both engines received damage to high pressure compressor blades.

Originally Posted by BobR

What's wrong with Boeing these days, this sounds serious:

Incident: Airbridge Cargo B748 near Hong Kong on Jul 31st 2013, both left hand engines surged at same time, one right hand engine damaged too
By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Aug 6th 2013 17:24Z, last updated Wednesday, Aug 21st 2013 16:54Z

An Airbridge Cargo Boeing 747-800, registration VQ-BGZ performing freight flight RU-349 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Hong Kong (China), was enroute at FL410 about 80 minutes prior to estimated landing when both left hand engines (GEnx) surged simultaneously, engine #2 (inboard) temporarily shut down and auto-started again. The aircraft continued to Hong Kong for a safe landing on all 4 engines about 80 minutes later.

Rosaviatsia reported on Aug 6th 2013 that the aircraft entered a zone of dramatic temperature fluctuations, the temperature changing between -53 and -33 degrees C, when the engines surged, #2 spontaneously shut down and auto-started again without crew intervention. Both engines received damage to high pressure compressor blades.

I didn't know Boeing made their own engines.

Agreed, hard to blame Boeing for this unless it was an electrical fault in the ice protection system.

Russian authorities are investigating an serious icing incident in cruise during which three engines on a Boeing 747-8 freighter sustained damage and two suffered a loss of thrust.

Federal air transport authority Rosaviatsia identifies the aircraft involved as an AirBridge Cargo 747-8F, registered VQ-BGZ. The 747-8F is powered by four General Electric GEnx-2B engines.

It had been operating between Moscow Sheremetyevo and Hong Kong on 31 July, and was cruising at 41,000ft at the time.

The incident occurred at night in the vicinity of Chengdu, about 1.5h before landing, as the aircraft deviated to the right of its intended flightpath in order to avoid a thunderstorm.

At about 18:00UTC the aircraft entered a veil of cloud not displayed on the weather radar. The crew noticed a rise in air temperature but did not see evidence of ice deposit.

Flight-recorder data showed the static air temperature increased from minus 54C to minus 34C for 86s. The crew switched the engine ice-protection system from automatic to manual, and the aircraft flew for around 10min in this mode, Rosaviatsia states, before reverting to automatic.

Some 22min after the cloud encounter the aircraft's inboard left-hand engine underwent a surge and automatic restart. Two minutes later the neighbouring outboard engine experienced a speed reduction to 70% of N1, while the inboard remained at idle thrust.

Rosaviatsia says the aircraft landed at Hong Kong and inspection found damage to the first-stage high-pressure compressor blades of both left-hand engines as well as the outboard right-hand powerplant.

In a bulletin to carriers the authority says the aircraft was caught in a region of "unexpected" and "unpredictable" weather conditions, leading to ice deposit on unheated parts of the high-pressure compressor. Rosaviatsia notes that the lack of comprehensive knowledge about crystal icing, and the difficulty of detecting the phenomenon, constitutes a continuing hazard.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by BobR

What's wrong with Boeing these days, this sounds serious:

Incident: Airbridge Cargo B748 near Hong Kong on Jul 31st 2013, both left hand engines surged at same time, one right hand engine damaged too
By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Aug 6th 2013 17:24Z, last updated Wednesday, Aug 21st 2013 16:54Z

An Airbridge Cargo Boeing 747-800, registration VQ-BGZ performing freight flight RU-349 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Hong Kong (China), was enroute at FL410 about 80 minutes prior to estimated landing when both left hand engines (GEnx) surged simultaneously, engine #2 (inboard) temporarily shut down and auto-started again. The aircraft continued to Hong Kong for a safe landing on all 4 engines about 80 minutes later.

Rosaviatsia reported on Aug 6th 2013 that the aircraft entered a zone of dramatic temperature fluctuations, the temperature changing between -53 and -33 degrees C, when the engines surged, #2 spontaneously shut down and auto-started again without crew intervention. Both engines received damage to high pressure compressor blades.

I didn't know Boeing made their own engines.

No, but Boeing selects which engines to make available and tests them as part of the certification for the entire aircraft. Either way, they don't need this now.

NBTC to approve wi-fi on THAI flights.
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) is to give the green light for wi-fi to be operated on Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) flights, expected to start from September.

Jesada Sivaraks, NBTC’s secretary-general, said the commission is in the process of granting the wireless broadband internet licence to THAI, after their application was filed two years ago.

The national airline had sought licences to provide access to mobile phone network and wi-fi on board flights, but the law states that mobile phone licences will only be granted via an auction process.

Therefore, NBTC is only allowing THAI to proceed with its plan to offer 2.4-gigahertz wi-fi at the moment, the licence for which will be granted automatically to any company applying for approval.

After obtaining the licence, THAI will pick a wi-fi operator from two currently available - Air Mobile from the United Kingdom and On Air from Switzerland.
THAI gets the green light for in-flight wi-fi | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Mobile fucking phones on airplanes, any fucker that does that will not be getting my business.

"HELLO? I'M ON THE PLANE! YEAH! REALLY!".

Might be time to invest in one of those portable jammers.

and camshots from the mile high club,gawd presrve us

Originally Posted by S Landreth

shortly before landing

Originally Posted by S Landreth

20 passengers and one member of the cabin crew who had not yet fastened their belts

bet ya they where queuing to disembark ....................

Originally Posted by Mid

Originally Posted by S Landreth

shortly before landing

Originally Posted by S Landreth

20 passengers and one member of the cabin crew who had not yet fastened their belts

bet ya they where queuing to disembark ....................

.....And on their phones.

Suggest anyone travelling try the priceline.dotcom travel website, their prices were significantly lower than Orbitz on many airlines. I booked BKK-LAX on China Eastern with an overnight layover in Shanghai $884 R/T including all taxes, the Orbitz price was $1114. I flew China Eastern so I could do the overnight in Shanghai,
And before anyone says it, you do not need any kind of visa to spend up to 48 hours in Shanghai, they've also started a similar program in Bejing.
Brief Introduction of 72-hour Visa-free Transit via Beijing and Shanghai

I actually discovered this by accident 2 years ago during a 9 hour layover at PVG on my way to the US. He stamped my visa and said (to my surprise) that I was free to leave the airport but to report to Immigration if I missed my connecting flight.

Originally Posted by S Landreth
20 passengers and one member of the cabin crew who had not yet fastened their belts

Yes telling Thais to belt up is a no brainer

Originally Posted by klong toey

Was that somebody's head (or shoulder...) banging into that overhead locker?

My guess would be yup.

Maybe a poor stewardess? What are those pockets called when you just drop 500 feet or so (can be a lot more); maybe one of those?

When I was about 12 we were flying SAS over the Alps and hit an airpocket like that. The chief steward took off in front of me hit the ceiling and ended up with a compound fracture of one leg. I remember it vividly because of the blood.