#airline
...and one more photos to complete my shots of #Vancouver posted over the last three days. This photo was taken early Monday morning in the typical Vancouver pouring rain and shows our Porter Airlines Embraer E195-E2 #airliner at the gate, ready to load for the trip home, just before boarding. However, as always, up at cruising altitude the sun was shining!
F.A.A. #Audit of #Boeing’s #737Max Production Found Dozens of Issues
The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January.
The F.A.A. also conducted 13 product audits for the part of the inquiry that focused on #SpiritAeroSystems, which makes the fuselage, or body, of the 737 Max. Six of those audits resulted in passing grades, and seven resulted in failing ones, the presentation said.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html
#faa #security #flight #airline #fail #problem #economy #news #politics #qa
Why most of the Boeing stories this past week are "not news"
and when some are:
- Self-Censorship Gets In The Way Of Reporting The News by Russ Niles, #AVweb
#Boeing #Whistleblower: #Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On #MAX9 Weren’t Installed
As a result, this #check job that should find minimal defects has in the past 365 calendar days recorded 392 nonconforming findings on 737 mid fuselage door installations...
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In Boeing production speak, this is a “process failure”. For an A&P mechanic at an #airline, this would be called “federal #crime”.
#flight #plane #security #qa #fail #problem #news #quality #economy #capitalism
Diversity Naysayers Make Labor Crisis Worse
A good article by Russ Niles on #AVweb. The story deals with #aviation, but is widely applicable and well argued.
One of the most interesting, frustrating, entertaining and occasionally frightening tasks of the modern-day editor is monitoring the comments on the stories we run. Most outlets have disabled comments because it’s just too much damn work to filter out the mean, hateful and irrelevant missives that inevitably appear no matter what the topic. It must be all Trump’s fault. Or wait, maybe it’s Biden’s.
#diversity #minorities #airline #airlines #aircraft #flying #bigots #bigotry
#Quote The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
#Pilots Warns of #Airline Industry #Disaster Due to #COVID-19 #Vaccines
Captain Shane Murdock, a pilot for more than 40 years, has found official data that back up his claim of impending #global #catastrophe:
• There was a 272% rise in mayday calls in 2022, with a 386% surge in early 2023 (see chart).
• There was also an unprecedented 126% increase in flight restrictions due to medical limitations.
Murdock thinks some pilots are ticking time bombs and claims many are not declaring ill-health. He said:
"They are not reporting brain fog, heart flutters, and dizzy spells because they don’t want to lose their jobs."
Cpt Murdock thinks lack of action can have only one result. Many planes make #emergency landings because of pilot incapacitations. He warned:
"Disasters will occur, and both aircrew and the traveling public will die unnecessarily."
This information was compiled from an article written by
@Beck_Sall
(give her a follow). Read the full story in the comment below.
Source twitter: https://twitter.com/VigilantFox
#airline #travelproblems
Pilot who allegedly tried to shut off engines hadn't slept in 40 hours: Authorities
He also allegedly discussed using psychedelic mushrooms, the complaint said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/details-emerge-after-off-duty-pilot-allegedly-shut/story?id=104247388
#airline #travel #problems
Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-flight-diverted-after-credible-security-threat/story?id=104223059
Ph.D. Meteorologist Documents Impact Of Global Warming On Turbulence
Compared with La Niña years that have the opposite effect, El Niño increases the incidence of wind shear—conflicting airflows that create severe turbulence not associated with visible storms caused by convective activity. Williams found “when there’s a strong El Niño event, there is 50 percent more moderate-or-greater CAT over large parts of the U.S. and the North Atlantic. And when there’s a strong La Niña event, there’s about 50 percent less moderate-or-greater CAT than normal.” Williams did note that the climate-based effects are not as strong in Europe.
But Williams’s research doesn’t stop with the predictable effects of warmer El Niño years or cooler La Niña interludes. In research conducted in 2019, he concluded that global warming across the board has demonstrably contributed to increased air turbulence, worldwide.
#weather #meteorology #climatechange #turbulence #aviation #airline #airliner #avweb #news
An advance in aerospace technology, an airliner designed by Stable Diffusion AI!! Yes that wing is on backwards, among other things. The choice of company "Snail Airlines" sounds about right, though.
#AI #art #stablediffusion #airline #airliner #aircraft #aviation #airplane
Lufthansa macht nach verlustreichen Corona-Jahren wieder Gewinn | DW | 03.03.2023
Neben anderen Branchen war besonders der Luftverkehr von der Corona-Pandemie hart getroffen worden. Auch Europas Marktführer, die Lufthansa, hat in dieser Zeit viel Geld verloren. Jetzt aber geht es wieder aufwärts.#Lufthansa #Luftverkehr #Airline #CarstenSpohr
Lufthansa macht nach verlustreichen Corona-Jahren wieder Gewinn | DW | 03.03.2023
The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.
After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn't be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans #heart #damage.
Steve Kirsch
The FAA just telegraphed the fact that a substantial number of #airline #pilots have had serious heart damage from the COVID vaccine by widening the ECG parameters for pilots.
Entire US "no fly list" leaked online after being left on an unsecured server
1.5 million entries have been exposed on the US "No Fly" list
Source: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/
So millions of terrorists out there 😱
#hack #airline #cloud #software #jenkins #security #terror #usa #flight #airline #airport #news #leak #humanRights #terrorism #noflylist #nofly
Stowaway Bodies Found After Three Days In Gear Well
Authorities in Colombia say an Avianca A320neo likely flew around South America for three days with the bodies of two stowaways in a gear well. The airline said it found the two, likely teenage boys, on Friday night when the plane went in for scheduled maintenance.
People really need to stop doing this. You never get a free ride to America. Instead you get either crushed by the landing gear when it retracts, frozen to death, dead from hypoxia, or in some cases, probably all three.
United said it had this woman's missing bag. She tracked it to a residential address
Quite a story and a lot of lying from United Airlines, too.
