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🔓 Why U.S. airlines balked at adopting Boeing’s latest 737 Max software versions theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf... (via @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent

Re: amazon Boeing 767 at MIA: Note how at one point during the approach, both airspeed and altitude has increased, so total energy increased. That requires a significant amount of thrust. That is, obviously, strange, during approach.

I implore everyone to read Paulina Rowinska's excellent Mapmatics book. It's a great and easy read for non-science people, and goes into detail of mathematical techniques, history and implications (political or otherwise) of projecting a non-zero gaussian curvature 3D surface onto a 2D plane

Looks like a very close call to the ground staff too - especially the person on the cargo loading ramp who moved away from underneath the open door just moments prior.

We really need to stop calling LLM's AI and instead call them "text generators". At the point of usage there's no intelligence involved. Calling them AI means buying into the framing of tech companies. "Stochastic Parrot" may be fine, as well.

AAIB India Appeal aaib.gov.in/What's%20New...

very interesting thing just happened: EWR had a complete ground stop due to “thunderstorms” despite no storms in a 200 mile radius. The only flight to leave from EWR in that window? Air Force One. sure looks like Donald Trump just shut down EWR for 4 hours so he could watch a soccer game!

weird to me that this is what folks are going for and not the "they never bothered with the SIAB inspection" part

Ffs! Stop blaming the pilots without evidence. Let the investigation be complete.

And here we go - pointed right at the pilots.

Report details a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin from 2018 about fuel control switches being installed with the locking feature disengaged on 737s (somehow not deemed "an unsafe condition" warranting an AD), and that it's similar to what's on this 787 but no defect reported on this frame.

AAIB's preliminary report on #AI171 confirms Jon's reporting that the fuel cutoff switches are at play here. Both engine fuel cutoff switches were moved from RUN to CUTOFF almost immediately after takeoff, within 1 second of each other. CVR captured audio of both pilots denying having touched it.

The CVR exists to tell us what the pilots said in the minutes leading up to an accident. It is clear they identified the problem & denied touching the switches. I’d like to see a transcript of their exact words following this exchange. And I want to know what else could affect the switches.

I wish AAIB would have published the CVR transcript as well. That one sentence regarding the pilot interaction about the cutoff switch is giving rise to too many ridiculous speculations that the pilot is to blame. The investigation is ongoing and I hope people refrain from assigning blame.

There's gonna be another conversation about video cameras in the flight deck coming out of this crash.

There is a good amount of detail in the 15-page report, but these are the key paragraphs. @theaircurrent.com's report for reference: theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...

We're channelling our inner @tmogriffons.bsky.social and posing a quiz question. 👆🏻 What's the connection between the Shorts 'Skyvan' and RMS Titanic? Hint: it has nothing to do with the ship (or plane, for that matter) hitting an iceberg. And we'll need that answer in the form of a question.

What's the term from Transformers The Movie? 'Till all are one.

I think waiting until the FDR data is reviewed (at a minimum) is smarter than randomly guessing at things.

Yesterday, Japan Airlines and Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tokyo took very different routes. Even though it flew further, Finnair beat JAL to Haneda. We look at some of the flight planning considerations. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

This proposition is an excellent 'object lesson' about AI. If 'making Science Communication product' is what's important, then yes, Automated Ignorance will get plenty of that done. But if the aim is for more people to understand Science, then a torrent of AI nonsense won't achieve it...

Inspired by a feature in an old @RowlandWhite book (Gods includes all supernatural and folkloric names)

Last Friday, the Trump Administration announced an EO directing FAA to repeal the ban on commercial supersonic flight over the continental US and replace it with an "en route" noise standard for sonic boom. Why this is likely to boomerang on manufacturers. (🧵) www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Remember that using this is essentially consent to your device being searched by authorities.

Saving money on the marketing budget?

So, you want to fly on a 747 in 2025, and you're not a pallet of cargo. 📦 How do you do it? Here's our look at where the world's remaining passenger 747s. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

Money can buy you legislation, but money cannot buy you physics.

The migratory instincts of the ninth SpaceX Starship. Sound on! 🔊

This will require the FAA to alter 14 CFR § 91.817. It is unclear to me if that can be done without issuing a NPRM and taking comments and such. Of course, if the outcome is known, the process may not matter. Also of note, Boom is skipping the Paris Air Show this year.

Wait, can we really say America led the world in supersonic aviation when in fact their focus has been military applications? The two supersonic airliners that ever existed were far from American.

I wonder how long before Trump appoints a new administrator who then promptly lifts this production cap?

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

What's more likely under a 12 month deadline? The overland flight ban gets lifted before safeguards against sonic boom are put in place. That may be industry's goal, but a "let them eat boom" approach is unlikely to be good for either the public or industry. (END). theicct.org/publication/...

Delta’s new Airbus A350 isn’t flying to the U.S.—yet. Instead, it’s heading to Tokyo first, reportedly to avoid U.S. tariffs by not landing "new." Track DL9936 live: AirNavRadar.com/flight/DL9936

There's no understating how big this news is.

A second Boeing 737 MAX is returning from China undelivered amid ongoing tariff disputes with the US. N230BE returned from Boeing’s delivery center in Zhoushan last week. www.flightradar24.com/BOE339/3a027...

Why oh why would you sell this important piece of aviation business to, of all things, a PE that is bound to suck it dry and run it into the ground in the process?!

2025-03-25: Jin Air Boeing 737-800 (HL7561, *2000) operating on flight #LJ312 from Sapporo erroneously landed on runway 18 Left while cleared for runway 18 Right. Fortunately, no other traffic was on that runway at the time.

While we're out here playing with weird plane data today, here's a chart showing how Airbus took over the TATL single-aisle market from Boeing. Maybe that's a win, maybe not. But it definitely happened. #AvGeek

A must-read. Yet another instance in which the non-public military accident investigations uncover troubling technical problems and the public report just blames the pilot.

Cool!!