Last night a British Airways Boeing 747 jumbo jet sliced into a building in Johannesburg. Amazingly, no one onboard was injured.P
The pilot reportedly took a runway that was too narrow for the 747's 211-foot wingspan, BusinessWeek reports. The plane's crew and 185 passengers were all perfectly ok, but four people were injured on the ground by falling debris.
God I hate media reports on aviation, they didn't take the wrong runway, the missed their turn on the taxiway and ended up continuing on another one that did not have the clearance for the 747's wingspan.
God I hate media reports on aviation, they didn't take the wrong runway, the missed their turn on the taxiway and ended up continuing on another one that did not have the clearance for the 747's wingspan.
It IS the media... they probably can't tell the difference between a taxiway and a runway... They also seemed to exaggerate that it was surprising that no one on the plane was injured, from that picture, it doesn't look all that surprising that no passenger was injured...
Delta keeps ramping up their SEA ops, will announce SEA-YYC in the new year. 3x daily operated by a CRJ-900. This will compete directly with the Alaska/Horizon service.
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Delta keeps ramping up their SEA ops, will announce SEA-YYC in the new year. 3x daily operated by a CRJ-900. This will compete directly with the Alaska/Horizon service.
CRJ900s? That will be a major upgrade vs. the AC-Jazz CRJ200, and the AS Q400 even though I do enjoy the prop service on Horizon for a one-hr flight.
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Premium demand on LAX-JFK/SFO is unlike any other route in North America. This makes a lot of sense for AA at a much much much lower operating cost than the 762 which has the lowest CASM in their fleet.
Delta keeps ramping up their SEA ops, will announce SEA-YYC in the new year. 3x daily operated by a CRJ-900. This will compete directly with the Alaska/Horizon service.
Cool, the best part is that I'm sure DAL won't queue up its customers until 70 min prior to the flight before checking them in.
Awesome doc on the YF-23 Black widow. The faster, stealthier, and way cooler looking alternative to the F22 Raptor. One of the biggest travesties in military aircraft selection going with the Raptor over this plane. Someone must've gotten a massive bribe along the way to have had this plane come second place. IMO easily the most incredible looking fighter concept ever. What could have been.....
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Premium demand on LAX-JFK/SFO is unlike any other route in North America. This makes a lot of sense for AA at a much much much lower operating cost than the 762 which has the lowest CASM in their fleet.
There is a good post on airliners.net about this. AA has the lions share of the contracts from LAX-JFK which is why they have this sub-fleet. I do enjoy how the article makes it sound like they are doing this because of competition and not simply economics. 762 CASM is thus that it doesnt make any more sense so they replace it with something more suited to the non stop routing. No point in competing on price when someone can do that on a one-stop routing through ORD, PHX, or DFW with AA.
I am a bit surprised not to have at least a few Y+ seats on the layout to reduce the upgrades of Y passengers to C.
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A plane and a cube van collided at YYC today. Plane was being pushed back from the gate when the cube van drove behind it and got knocked over. Doesn't seem like anyone got hurt, but sort of surprising that something like that could happen.
An old flying buddy was parked right next to the Dash in the above picture, he says it appears the van got knocked over from jet blast and was never bumped by any aircraft.
Plus the Dash in the picture would not be backed out from that parking position, but would instead just simply start taxiing and turn around on its own.
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Maybe he was powering up to make the turn out? I was wondering what was going on today...we were just leaving and we saw both city and airport fire trucks, as well as an ambulance heading over tot the A gates. More equipment than you'd normally see for an inbound medical.
An old flying buddy was parked right next to the Dash in the above picture, he says it appears the van got knocked over from jet blast and was never bumped by any aircraft.
Plus the Dash in the picture would not be backed out from that parking position, but would instead just simply start taxiing and turn around on its own.
I was at the call in one of those firetrucks Bigtime,it was not blown over but the Dash 8 was pushed into the cube van and knocked it over.
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