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Compared to the aircraft he had previously flown the C172 has very heavy controls but a bit lighter without the instructor. Maybe he was lulled into a false sense of security & it sounds like a classic stall turn on to base flying too slow. Poor kid & such a waste. I can't imagine how his family feel at this time. Condolences to them & ftiends.

Well that is one terrible quality management system that does not require the bolts to be inspected when the door is opened and then closed again. It can't be opened without removing the bolts so it is obviously easy to not put them back in place. Since the incident Alaska has found many loose bolts & so far has only inspected 40 aircraft out of 171 & are waiting for FAA to release the others. For what reason they have not said & no-one seems to know when this will happen. In the meantime Boeing are having a quality management day with all staff. What that will achieve when their quality management systems are clearly poor in this instance is virtually nothing except put some publicity out that they are doing something. The buck still stops with Calhoun, one of the main architects of the cost based philosophy over quality and engineering. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/alaska-ceo-says-many-loose-bolts-found-in-max-9-door-plugs/?MailingID=FLY240123010&utm_campaign=avwebflash&utm_medium=newsletter&oly_enc_id=1805F8483078G8F

Not much left there. It will be miraculous if anyone survived that.

I have 2 Rec Flying headsets bought in 2014 & have been used constantly & still working perfectly. One set used constantly & the other only when I have a passenger. I purchased a new head band from you that looks the same as the one in the photos above as the other lost its padding ability. The new one is better by far. I have replaced both sets of ear seals due to age & the gel coming out. Highly recommended headsets, better than most other PNR headsets on the market.

Suits was an American soap opera. The dialogue is fast and pleasing to the ear, the plots are engaging without being too complex and the people are pretty and they have pretty people problems. Aimed at an American Audience that don't want to actually think about anything but look at lawyers that always win and have a lifestyle that they will never get to emulate. John Travolta nominated Prince Harry for the award which is just another Hollywood extravaganza among many others. The awards night was also attended by Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, who received the Elling Halvorson Vertical Flight Hall of Fame Award for her founding of an aerial film and production company. Prince Harry joins other celebrity recipients of the award, including Bezos, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, and Elon Musk. However, the award has also caused some controversy among military figures. Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord, said: “He is not a living legend. There are lots of people who deserve to be called this but not Prince Harry.“ I find it extraordinary he has been picked. He didn’t carry off any great exciting feat of amazing flying skill while flying for the Army.” Col Richard Kemp, a retired British Army officer, said the ceremony was about “celebrities massaging each other’s egos”. The ceremony in Beverly Hills is hosted annually, and costs up to US$1600 (NZ$2600) for a table of six guests. A ticket to the after party is US$600 (NZ$980). You can become a legend for having money and forming a film and production company. Pathetic.

Royals may be born in to privilege but for the most part they work pretty hard and mostly for charitable organisations. Harry did pretty well setting up the Invictus games for disabled military veterans of all nations. His downfall IMHO was falling for an American B grade actress who manipulated him and was never going to fit in with the rest of the RF so she threw more hissy fits than you could count & conned Harry all the way in to the American way of publicity and fame by all and any means.

Plus plenty of tissues, paper towels and your own wash basin. Make the most of it and have a complete body wash, get off refreshed & ready to go.

The fact that the doco was banned in the US says a lot about the parochial nature of the US, money and the ties between huge corporations and government.

It's a joke Joyce. It is I think a one off where a Tornado & Condorde stop nose to nose & 2 female pilots get out & have a yarn on the grass. Of course it never happened but a nod to the difference of the female psyche.

It goes back even further than 20 years. Our own SBS dateline created a documentary in 2011 entitled "Problems with Boeing 737 Next Generation with structural dangers". This was way before the Max version. The whistleblowers were all sacked by Boeing. It starkly exposes Boeings "profit culture". It is well worth watching if you have a spare 33 minutes. Incidentally the doco is banned in the USA. Check it out.

The FAA has now grounded all 171 Max-9s indefinitely and announced tightening oversight of Boeing. Calhoun needs to go. I don't know how he even survived the MCAS debacle after the Max 8 crashes. US regulator grounds Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes indefinitely, cancelling flights until Tuesday - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU The Federal Aviation Administration said the continued grounding of the planes was for the safety of American travellers.

Can't get my head around pounds but 271 kgs empty is a pretty light aircraft. I assume the brown one has the Jab 3300A in it looking at the cowl length. You'd want smooth air at 200 knots. Mins is 335kgs empty & at 120 knots the bumps can be pretty vicious. At 2000 feet and under I generally cruise at around 100knots unless it is an early morning calm air flight or I am above the weather.

40 sq feet. Mine is 91 sq feet & I thought that was pretty small. Big difference in stall though. What's the empty weight with a 912?

Pretty much like any electronic receiver or transmitter. Signals are transmitted as wavelengths and bounce or are deflected of hard surfaces they cannot penetrate so get to the receiver obliquely. If there is a large flat surface like the side of a fuselage and the SE2 is behind it the signal is blocked.

Simple and effective. All you need are a couple of cable ties & maybe a bit of velcro. Two of the best inventions yet for holding things together.

Most people will be able to deal with 16,000 feet oxygen density for a short while with no ill effects. Super fit and specifically trained people and some Sherpas who live there have got to the top of Mt Everest at 29,000 feet without oxygen. Most people though would die though. In my hang gliding days a friend went to the US and flew the Sierra Nevadas. Takeoff was at 9,000 feet & he wasn't planning on going higher than 12,000 so did not take oxygen. He got in to a wave and ended up over 20,000 feet. He told me he was worried about hypoxia and started thinking about the symptoms so began some tests like counting fingers etc. There were several checks he knew but could not remember them all. When he finally landed in Nevada it all came back to him. One of the major symptoms is "Loss of short term memory". He was definitely hypoxic but survived.

That's a mother of a jetpipe. They should have put is straight out the back between the pilots legs & under the seat for some extra thrust & to keep the pilot toasty at high altitude.😁

The loose bolts found on the United 737 Max's are not the ones that prevent the door plug from moving up (the ones that so far can't be found) but the bolts that actually held the hinge assembly on to the door. This explained from around 5:25 in Juan Brownes latest youtube clip.

I see that Dave Calhoun the Boeing CEO has admitted Boeing f***ed up again. He should have been rolled after the Max 8 MCAS disaster as he was one of the major executives responsible for Boeings profit over engineering philosophy back in 2018-19. I don't think anything will really change. Boeing, like GM is considered "Too big to fail" an American ICON and the USAs biggest export earner. Government contracts will continue to keep the gravy train running so they will say the right things and keep on doing what they have always been doing. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-10/boeing-ceo-acknowledges-errors-made-following-panel-blowout/103306160

Will it even work in Canada. It won't in the US.

I just read that an aircraft technician with 23 years experience whose company operates Max-9s and has this to say I've been an aircraft technician for 23 years and we operate the Max9. I’ve opened and closed one of these plugs as well. Keep in mind that other 737 NG’s have these plugs installed in the longer fuselage models, not just the Max. They all work the same way and there’s never been an incident like this. I’m not saying this is what happened, but I can’t see how this could lug could come loose unless the two upper capture bolts, and the two lower bolts through the spring hinges weren’t installed. Even if a set of bolts, either uppers or lowers were missing with the opposites installed, I can’t see how the plug could come loose and depart the airframe. Just my ten cents. To open the plugs, the corresponding row of seats where it’s located has to be removed, and the surrounding interior side wall paneling and insulation. There’s also a seal that reacts to ambient temp that helps keep everything nice and tight. If they find the bolts were never installed that will be another nail in the Boeing coffin.

Juan Browne flys for American Airlines and his own Luscombe. His Youtube Channel Bancolirio is pretty informative but he does give credit to the expertise of others where required. Interestingly the best and most technically proficient individual regarding Boeing 737s of all models is an Englishman & 737 Captain Chris Brady who has the Boeing 737 Technical channel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdjozru7tpmCMePCESlcZsw

If the bolts have been found to be loose on other Max-9s, either they were not tightened sufficiently when installed or there is no split pin in the castle nut. If the split pin is there a castle nut can't unwind.

The US is and always has been very profit driven. While the Industrial revolution began in the UK and many people in Britain became very wealthy and by the end of the 19th Century Britain was the largest most powerful country on earth, it didn't last long with The US perfecting and enhancing manufacturing techniques with the birth of mass production catapulting the early entrepreneurs to millionaire & then billionaire status. Fast forward 100 years and massive corporations headed by ruthless management had become addicted to profit and wealth while steadily eroding the rights of those who made them that way. Now it seems to have become ingrained in US society and government, so when huge organisations start to show their failings and these are exposed by journalists and eventually by total disasters, you guessed it they are kept propped up by the Government. General motors was bankrupt so the government gave them 13.4 billion as they were deemed to big to fail. Boeing is still going due to huge US government military contracts with the government cancelling contracts for airbus aircraft and throwing a lifeline to Boeing for inferior alternatives. How long this continues is anyones guess but chickens eventually come home to roost.

The fuselage of a number of Boeing 737s that had landing crashes between 2010 and 2016 broke in to several pieces whereas earlier versions in similar crashes stayed intact. This was noted in a SBS doco produced some years ago when some ex Boeing employees became Whistleblowers. Boeing sacked these people to try and protect its reputation but there were some very sorry sagas of sub contractors providing sub standard fuselage ribs and visits to their factories to find various jigs and CNC equipment out of order due to lack of maintenance and staff making parts by hand. The dollar rules and always has at Boeing, though they have made some excellent aircraft since the 1940s. The original mantra of "If it's not Boeing I'm not going" has now changed to "If it's Boeing I'm not going".