That's a good link about canadian airport coding. Comox is YYQ, Campbell River is YBL, and more. Hack&Lube, the code for Salt Lake City is wrong, it is SLC. The STL code is for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
You know, in fairness to the selfish people and their carry in......people do wierd things in moments of stress. I don't think it is about being selfish, or even much conscious thought about having their stuff....it's just that their mind is so saturated by stress, they are trying for self preservation, and somehow leaving with what they got on with seems like it is part of that.
A blown tire on landing is hardly a rapid evacuation event as well.
Back to airport codes and naming, this is a neat article with lots of history on many of the US names...airport identifiers
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One of the world's largest airports, JFK, is also one of the very few that changed call letters. A change is rare because an identifier becomes so well known to airline staff that changes are not normally permitted. Interestingly the John F. Kennedy airport's former code also came from the name of the field — IDL for Idlewild airport (itself named for the Idlewild golf course whose land became JFK). If you knew that Fort Myers used to be called SouthWest Florida Regional, the RSW moniker starts to make sense. A code used by American Airlines but never seen by the traveling public is GSW. Pilots spend months at GSW, but no planes land or take-off there. The mystery is solved when you discover that Americans' Flight Academy, with its many simulators and classrooms, is in Ft. Worth on the former site of the Greater SouthWest Airport. A airport that has worked hard to change its given code is Sioux City's Sioux Gateway Airport—SUX. Mayor Craig Berenstein described the SUX code as an "embarrassment". City leaders petitioned the FAA to change the code in 1998 and again in 2002. At one point the FAA offered the city five alternatives—GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY—but airport trustees didn't like any of them enough to change. In 2007 the airport made the best of their sucky cipher and started promoting the airport with the slogan "FLY SUX."
I've always wondered who the federal bureaucrat was that decided to use such an illogical naming method for Canadian airports. I'm sure he/she thought it made sense at the time.
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Doubt we see them as AC is trying to drop the Embraers like a bad habit. Too bad, they are very comfortable and I love the 2x2 seating.
Just watched the video, holy crap... in the history of winglets that has to be the biggest I've ever seen relative to the MTOW of the plane, or its wingspan, or whatever other metric. Wonder what kind of strengthening was required for the wing to support that thing.
757. Quite a turbulent loss of lift on that wing but you can adjust for it if it's not so significant that it sends you out of control. It'd even be further inboard than a windmilling outer engine on a 4 plane which just causes a ton of drag. I wish I knew more about aero.
The Transportation Safety Board has said that maintenance failures were to blame for an engine failure on an Air Canada flight that rained debris down on Mississauga in May 2012.
The Tokyo-bound Air Canada Boeing 777 was just minutes into its flight from Pearson International Airport on May 28, 2012 when its right engine failed at an altitude of around 1,600 feet. As the plane turned around and made a safe emergency landing at Pearson, debris spewed out of the failed engine's exhaust, littering Mississauga with parts of the shattered turbine. The falling debris hit several cars on the ground but nobody was injured.
