Aviation Appreciation Station v2

[Frequitude]

Could the air traffic controller flight throttling in the states impact Canada-Mexico flights for us (or other international flights that fly over the US)?

[Acey]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

Could the air traffic controller flight throttling in the states impact Canada-Mexico flights for us (or other international flights that fly over the US)?

Unlikely, it would have to reach a fairly dire state for enroute overflights to be significantly impacted. They might restrict planes to certain airways like the old days or present-day China, or stagger planes going through a certain area so that one guy can monitor a lager area.

[Acey]

Entire UPS MD-11 fleet grounded indefinitely. 27 frames.

[Frequitude]

AA191 is one of my most memorable Mayday episodes because of the camera view passengers had out front. Eerily similar.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Acey

Entire UPS MD-11 fleet grounded indefinitely. 27 frames.

I live close to Boeing field and see them frequently. That's a lot of freight capacity sitting on the ground.

[Bigtime]

FedEx has suspended their MD-11 flights too, Western Global expected to follow suit.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/a...spend-flights/

[btimbit]

Grounding recommended by Boeing, cynical side of me says it's just that they finally found a reason to push operators into retiring them

[btimbit]

FAA directive now for US carriers to ground the MD11. Have to think this will be the final nail in the coffin for Western Global Airlines

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/w..._Emergency.pdf

[Acey]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

Could the air traffic controller flight throttling in the states impact Canada-Mexico flights for us (or other international flights that fly over the US)?

It's starting to get ugly now, mostly out of Toronto. It's getting tough to find a route to the Carribean that ATC can handle. Out of YYC to Mexico we're still hanging on.

[surferguy]

I’m flying to Central America tonight. Forsee any issues?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I’m flying to Central America tonight. Forsee any issues?

"Don't fly in anything with a Capissen 38 Mark II engine - they fall right out of the sky!"

[Acey]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I’m flying to Central America tonight. Forsee any issues?

From Calgary, probably not. But we're struggling.

[Lubicon]

Update on the WestJet 737 that suffered a gear collapse a few months.

TSB says the landing was not a hard landing event.
TSB discovered a cracked component in part of the landing gear.
I guess the inference here is it was mechanical failure rather than a hard landing that caused the landing gear to fail.

From the website:

Work completed as of October 2025

The initial review of the flight data recorder data indicates that this was not a hard landing event.

During the aircraft examination, the right gear aft trunnion pin was found fractured. The two portions of the aft trunnion pin were sent to the TSB Engineering Laboratory in Ottawa, Ontario, and are awaiting further examination.

The right main landing gear was overhauled in 2016.

The TSB is reviewing previous occurrences involving aft trunnion pin fractures on Boeing 737 aircraft.

https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes-i.../a25f0337.html

[btimbit]

So just like Alaska N516AS, like we all thought