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Boeing 787 Requires Hand-Holding, Inspires Hand-Wringing
AAIB ISSUES UPDATE. Link to the PDF at the end of this post.If I had to guess, I'd say that the cause of the fire on an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner is not going to be keeping air safety...
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Ethiopian 787 Fire Sparks Question: Is Lithium Ion Ready to Fly?
Boeing may have to take back in that big sigh of relief it expelled when the Air Accidents Investigation Branch cleared the Dreamliner's two lithium ion back up power batteries from culpability in the...
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Southwest Nose Gear Accident Mirrors American Flight 1740
The latest airplane accident at New York's LaGuardia Airport shows once again how much progress has been made in making airplanes safe even when things go wrong. Just eight of the 150 passengers and...
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Why Two Different Approaches to Two Crash Landings?
Asiana 214 at San Francisco International Airport. Photo by NTSBConsidering the startling similarities between the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco on July 6 and Southwest Airlines Flight...
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Safe, Until You Step Off the Plane
I'm no different from any other gal, on Friday I like to kick back and think about relaxing. As the weekend approaches, I try to blog about the fun stuff, aviation books, aviation music, aviation...
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Passenger Defiance of FAA Rules Boon to Accident Investigators
On July 22, as Southwest Flight 345 descended through 400 feet on approach to New York's LaGuardia Airport with an 11 knot tailwind, the captain took the controls from first officer. They were flying...
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Using Pilots As Political Pawns Could Trigger a Domino Effect
Capt. Murat AkpinarThe kidnapping on Friday morning of two Turkish airline pilots in Lebanon is upsetting on a number of levels, beyond the obvious tragedy of their capture in the first place. Captain...
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Bike Tour of Calgary Airport, a Memorable First
The bike path approach to Bergamo's Orio de Serio AirportI've written before about airports that are dear to me because I can get to them by bike. There were some notable omissions from that post;...
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Sea Plane Flight Is Medicine for Modern Air Travel
Capt. Grant Tamminga, 42, a sea plane pilot for Vancouver's Harbour Air, probably does not make the kind of money other airline captains make, nor does he stride through the airport on his way to work...
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Norwegian Fully Awake To Realize Its Dream
Bjorn Kjos in the cockpit of a Norwegian 737About a year ago, Nancy Branka, my editor at Executive Travel magazine assigned me to interview Bjorn Kjos, the affable boss of the upstart airline,...
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Baffling Delay on JFK Airport Hotels
As if we were waiting in the passenger boarding area for news of a delayed flight, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is providing just the merest trickle of information about the airport...
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LOT Dreamliners Spend the Weekend Grounded
The LOT Polish Dreamliner SP-LRB before it was groundedTake a good look at this Boeing 787 in flight, then remember, that's not a sure thing with the troubled Dreamliner. In the most recent...
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Boeing Boss Hearing About Bad Dreams In Europe
Conner, Photo courtesy BoeingLast year when he was given the job of piloting Boeing's Commercial Airplane division into the next generation of aviation, Ray Conner told reporters he was "really...
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Does Tesla's Battery Fire Tempt Boeing to Schadenfreude?
The joke about the mixed emotions when ones' mother-in-law drives off a cliff in your brand-new-car surely must describe how Boeing feels today watching Tesla defend the lithium ion batteries powering...
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From India to the Dreamliner Factory in Charleston a Message about Quality...
Photo courtesy Times of IndiaTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT NEW INFORMATION:Boeing is confirming that a section of the underbelly of an Air India Dreamliner came off during landing, though...
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My Kinda Sorta Mea Culpa for Previous 787 Post
An Air India 787 in Charleston, SC in 2012Getting information from Air India is not such an easy assignment. And as I learned from my readers and Jason Rabinowitz of @AirlineFlyer, information on the...
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Plane-spotting or Spotted Planes, with Lumix Camera Who Knows?
Tight shot of airplanes taken from a long, way off.There are not too many cameras that suit the needs of a frequently-traveling airplane geek who is fastidious about not only packinglight, but packing...
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Virgin America Video Making Passengers Loosen Up and Fly Right
New safety video photo courtesy Virgin AmericaHigh fives and "You go girl!", to Virgin America for its new safety video that has all the required information set to a rockin' beat. Like Air New...
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On Electronic Devices on Planes, Facts A Minor Factor
The Twitter message from New York Times editor Damon Darlin came minutes after the Federal Aviation Administration began a news conference announcing a change in policy on electronic devices on...
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747 Customer Lufthansa Says "Thanks" to the Man Who Made the Wide Body Fly
Were times simpler in the sixties, or was there something unique about Joseph Sutter that allowed him to do what airplane makers can’t seem to accomplish now? We can speculate but Sutter, one of the...
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