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    Extra flights won’t count against arrrivals cap: Birmingham

    3:43pm, Jan 17, 2021

    "The federal government expects hundreds of stranded Australians will be brought home on the 20 flights it is chartering in coming months."

    'The decision for the chartered flights came after the Emirates airline withdrew services to the east coast"

    "There are some 37,000 Australians registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade who want to return home."

    Extra flights won't count against arrrivals cap: Birmingham
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    Boeing 737 Max to be cleared to fly in Europe

    The head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has said Boeing's 737 Max plane will get final clearance to resume flying in Europe next week.

    The agency suspended all flights of the plane in March 2019, after two fatal crashes that have been attributed to flawed flight control software.

    A total of 346 people died in the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

    The modified plane has already been cleared for the resumption of flights in the US and Brazil.

    EASA executive director Patrick Ky said a separate certification of the Max-200 variant was likely to follow in "coming weeks", allowing flights to resume before summer.

    The plane's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.

    The second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.

    Both have been attributed to flight control software that became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.

    Since the Ethiopian crash, EASA has been carrying out a root-and-branch review of the 737 Max's design, independently from a similar process undertaken by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

    In order to return to service, existing planes will now have to be equipped with new computer software, as well as undergoing changes to their wiring and cockpit instrumentation.

    Pilots will need to undergo mandatory training, while each plane will have to undergo a test flight to ensure the changes have been carried out correctly.

    US regulators have set out similar conditions.
    Boeing 737 Max to be cleared to fly in Europe - BBC News

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    ^ Ryanair, TUI, and Turkish are the European airlines with firm orders. Doubt you'll be flying with these anyway 'arry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Pilots will need to undergo mandatory training,
    An expense the airlines who were sold the plane on in time and money, was NOT required.

    One presumes all airline pilots have always had to be certified to able to recover from a vertical nose dive six seconds before crashing into hard rock or water, whilst the instrument display indicates all is well and multiple klaxons blaring.

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    This is a pretty good documentary on designed plane crash. It may be from 2014 but it's new to me. It's lengthy at 1:12 but I found it worthwhile.





    It shows it as inactive but when I clicked on the start button it does work. I have my VPN set on the USA.

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    Maybe you should post it in the documentary thread instead of news then, huh?

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    OK ... who forgot to double check the cowling clip?

    United Airlines flight suffers engine failure, scatters debris over Colorado before emergency landing



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    Imagine finding that in your garden.

    Airline News-77050_ual777pw4000denver022021_923600-jpg

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    Boeing 747 Engine Parts Rain Down On Dutch Village After Engine Fire

    February 20, 2021

    A cargo plane departing Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) lost metal parts as it took off to its New York destination. It appears that these fragments came from an engine failure, with sources noting that the aircraft involved is a Boeing 747-400. Sources also report that some people on the ground have been slightly injured while various cars and property were damaged as a result of the fragments coming down. The aircraft was diverted to Liege.

    Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht, diverts to Liege - Two people injured - Aviation24.be

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    ^^ & ^ Both P&W engines on Boeing aircraft, the first one is a B 777-200 and looks pretty dramatic. Lucky there were no serious injuries to anyone on the ground.

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    ^^ Just looking for confirmation. So no RR engines were involved?

    --EDIT--

    Reconfirmed the info that I was looking for...

    UA328 was operated by 777-200 registered N772UA. It is the fifth 777 ever produced by Boeing and powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW4000 series engines.

    United UA328 suffers engine failure departing Denver | Flightradar24 Blog
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    United takes 24 Boeing 777s out of service as the FAA orders inspections following engine failure

    FAA orders inspections of Boeing 777s after engine failure on United flight

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    ^ JAL and ANA have also grounded their P&W 777 fleets. I imagine Korean Air will follow suit. Don't know any other airlines flying 777 with this engine fit.

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    Boeing has recommended grounding more than 120 of its 777 jets worldwide following a catastrophic engine failure on a United Airlines plane in Denver.
    The company said on Sunday night that airlines using the same type of engine that scattered debris across Denver before making an emergency landing should suspend operations until inspections could be carried out.

    Boeing 777s grounded around world after Denver engine failure | Boeing | The Guardian

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    ^^ Asiana in the other one affected.

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    Engine parts drop from Boeing 747 cargo plane in Netherlands


    Mon 22 Feb 2021 14.06 GMT

    "Dutch authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane dropped engine parts shortly after takeoff from Maastricht airport.

    The Longtail Aviation Flight 5504 cargo plane scattered mostly small metal parts over the southern Dutch town of Meerssen on Saturday, causing damage and injuring a woman.

    The Bermuda-registered plane, which was headed from Maastricht to New York, was powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, a smaller version of those on a United Airlines Boeing 777 involved in an incident in Colorado on Saturday"


    Engine parts drop from Boeing 747 cargo plane in Netherlands | Boeing | The Guardian


    Watch out for boing, boing 757s and 767s ?
    Last edited by OhOh; 23-02-2021 at 12:38 AM.

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    Is this a consequence of planes laying around doing nothing for a long time I wonder?

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    Pretty pictures and an accompanying article in the link. The third one is categorised as "minor damage"!

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    Airline News-50970654253_d4b390c0e5_k-jpg


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    NTSB Shares Damage Experienced By United 777 Engine Failure - Simple Flying

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    Quote Originally Posted by TizMe View Post
    I've got 6 upcoming flights within the next month.
    Checked them all.
    They are all A320s


    Nothing could possibly go wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cisco999 View Post
    Nothing could possibly go wrong.
    But just to be sure best to leave a tidy sum to TD so we can organise a decent wake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TizMe View Post
    I've got 6 upcoming flights within the next month.
    Checked them all.
    They are all A320s
    11-03-2019, 12:18 Pm

    Quote Originally Posted by cisco999 View Post
    Nothing could possibly go wrong.
    Today, 07:15 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    11-03-2019, 12:18 Pm


    Today, 07:15 PM
    You just have to spoil the fun, don't you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon View Post

    UA328 was operated by 777-200 registered N772UA. It is the fifth 777 ever produced by Boeing and powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW4000 series engines.

    United UA328 suffers engine failure departing Denver | Flightradar24 Blog
    It's crazy that numerous A380s are being taken out of service that are barely a decade old when loads of planes produced in the early 90s, like this 777, are still in use.

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