Great commentary from 1:07 to 1:12.
"A wise professor once told me, a good landing is one you can walk away from, a great landing is one you can use the plane again."
The TAIC report has a great still image of the moment the props disintegrated too. ]]>
It was a while ago, I know, but I just came across these stunning images from the delivery of the Nancy Bird-Walton A380 to QANTAS back in 2008.
Thanks to the photographer Rob Neil for granting permission to use his images in this post. See more of his work at Pacific Wings Magazine.
from wikipedia article
"Her name on the A380 was originally written "Nancy Bird-Walton", but Qantas respected her preference for the hyphenation that her late husband used ("Nancy-Bird"), and the hyphen was added before the aircraft's naming ceremony."
These photos are copyright protected and may not be used in any way without proper permission from Rob Neil.
The above images are also viewable on airliners.net in larger formats here, here and here.
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US takes lead on pilot safety Australia refused to follow
Via Ben Sandilands http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/
America's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finalised its proposal for a minimum experience standard of 1500 hours flight time for mainline first officers, something universally rejected as unnecessary by Australian airlines, CASA and subsequently, the Federal Government.. read more
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Air Australia grounded and placed into administration
Budget airline Air Australia has gone into voluntary administration amid claims it was paying foreign flight attendants as little as $90 a day.
The airline's entire fleet was grounded early this morning after administrators discovered there was no money to meet basic operational expenses.
Around 4,000 passengers are believed to be either stranded overseas or potentially out of pocket.
Read More at abc.net.au
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Here is another one...
Here's just one of the articles and a flight recording.
Embarrassing, yes!
What's your most embarassing mid-air moment?
]]>ICAO PROMOTES AVIATION SAFETY BY ENDORSING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING
"Test service providers around the world can now apply for, and receive, an endorsement for tests that rate proficiency in English used in aviation according to ICAO requirements. ICAO will endorse tests, not the test providers and the programme does not cover general English proficiency."
]]>"A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where they can use the plane again afterwards."
Apparently they fixed the old Grumman and she flew again.
From Skywagon Forums.
"The plane suffered damage to a wing and one of the propellers, and parts for a vintage seaplane are not procured at your local NAPA store, so the aircraft had to sit for a year or so while repairs were made. ..."
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]]>While setting up some news alerts and doing some research this morning, I came across the following article published in the New York Times on 4th May 2011.
What happened to Air France flight 447?
by Wil S Hylton
The story documents the fourth expedition mounted to find more of the Air France Airbus A330, in the South Atlantic Ocean, that vanished in 2009.
Initial the expeditions found the wreckage of the plane, but not the flight recorders. In early May 2011 both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder were recoverd.
Even with the analysis of the flight recorders an official cause has not been determined. As Wil S Hylton discusses, there is a great deal of information pointing to the pitot tubes delivering false air speed data.
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