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The media are out to keep raking the coals around the crash, so they can milk it for all it's worth. Nothing new to report, until the Indian AAIB release a lot more information such as the full CVR record and any medical history on the pilots that could shine more light on their state of mind/s. The FAA has reported that all their testing has found absolutely nothing wrong with the B787 fuel cut-off switch system, as regards the mechanical locking mechanism, and inadvertent switching by accidentally bumping them, is impossible. I still suspect it was a "brain fart" on the part of the Captain - he was greatly worried about his elderly father, and was planning to retire to look after him. Not something a suicidal individual would plan. reuters.com WWW.REUTERS.COM

Noice! Make sure you carry a plastic cap for the vent tube to stop the mud-dauber wasps. I think CASA say it only takes 20 mins after landing for a mud-dauber wasp to block an opening.

Gee, that X-air climbs like an F4 Phantom using afterburners! 😄

It could also have easily been unauthorised aerobatics that got out of hand. I can't find any flight tests of the aircraft in English, but I found one in French. These fast European "plastic fantastics" can have some nasty "bites" in their handling.

Highly likely to be a stall-spin crash, the simple event that kills a lot unwary or unskilled pilots. This young bloke presents a good, thoughtful video, on how to be aware of the important link between stall and spin.

How many of the views would be bots, though? On another forum I'm on, every time I log in, there's always half a dozen bots viewing the site, as well as a few members.

.....the Roman Quinarius and Aureas had lost their shine, so to speak, thus leading the other currencies to become dominant in the Levant. However, bull's move to ban the bearded bloke from the LFTA, led to bull being cursed by the bearded bloke, and affected by a nasty affliction that caused bull to............

....did a roaring trade using the Temple as an operating base - until the day a bearded bloke in sandals, a long frock-like costume, and with a halo hovering over him, grabbed their tables and hurled them over, thus ruining the trades for that day. The bearded bloke also yelled out something like they were scumbags for using his Dads House to do their business. It puzzled the Money Changers that this bloke was claiming the Temple as his Dad's House - but hey, there's a nutter with crazy ideas in every crowd, isn't there? Of course, the Money Changers suspected this violent move was all just a front to install currency-changing ATM's by the bearded bloke, so they got together and.............

I flew on one of Virgins B737-8FE's today (VH-YQR), and while waiting to load everyone on, I looked up the history of the aircraft. I was surprised to come across an ATSB Incident Report from 2023, detailing a major flight upset with this aircraft, approaching cruise level - and the interesting part is - it involves an incorrect switch selection, due to distraction. I thought this report made for an interesting read, and it shows just how easily a mistake in control selection can be made and how long it takes to figure out what has gone wrong with aircraft handling. Inadvertent rudder trim input led to 737 in-flight upset | ATSB WWW.ATSB.GOV.AU

I could easily spend a whole day admiring the engineering, the construction work, and the sheer beauty and promise, of just what was in each part of the crate! Now comes the real hard yakka!

Gee, getting an $894M investment in the company from Toyota, is some record achievement!

Kit foxtails? As in what we used to hang off car radio aerials? 😄

.....daily operations and finance controls of the First Temple of Jerusalem - thus showing that our family ancestors could even show the Jews a thing or two, about handling big incomes. Of course, what is not well known is that OT's ancestor, Josiah Track, had a major financial investor to compete with, one Jeremiah Cook, who controlled all the accommodation in the Levant. Yes, Dear NES readers, that Jeremiah Cook just happened to be one of Cappys ancestors, and it's not well reported that accommodation was particularly tight, right about the time a huge star appeared over Jerusalem, and because of this, people couldn't even find a room in a Cook Motel to have a baby (or even create one). This fact was solely due to the ruthless control over every Levant motel by said Jeremiah Cook, who had wangled the position of Comptroller of Motels in the Levant. This enabled Jeremiah to scuttle plans for any proposed motels that competed with the Cook motel chain, and thereby led to the acute shortage of accommodation in the Levant. Shortly after JC started going to school, and not long after he learnt the basics of monopolies and "big money" control, he set about.........

Woo-Hoo!! .... 250kts speed limit, and any number and any type of engines!! Here comes the twin-jet ultralights that will leave those pathetic, crawling, Rotax-powered kitbuilders in their wake! 😄

.....OT, with his stunning food displays from his several food vans. "Well, I never knew you were a major mobile food retailer!", exclaimed Cappy as he sampled some of OT's delicious Boulangerie food van offerings. "Oh, it all started about 2000 years ago, when my great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle, Josiah Track, saw this bloke in the Levant feeding 5000 people with five loaves of bread, and a couple of fish!" "Josiah immediately thought up the idea of the first fish burger van in the Levant, and from there, our family has never looked back! Besides, it's so much easier to stretch the limited fish supplies out, when you have a van with an enclosed kitchen, rather than standing around in a carpenters outfit, just handing the food out, without even ensuring you get paid for it!" "Since I took over the food van operations, the Boulangerie Van has been a massive hit, so much so, that..........

It just looks like a Cessna clone! Surely Van's could've done more to differentiate their design?

They're simply standard automotive valve springs, aren't they? If they're OEM, you'd shudder at how they're manufactured, and how little QC goes into them. The last engine I rebuilt, I used valve springs from SBI (S.B. International), supplied by NASON - and SBI products are aftermarket, high performance springs, made in the U.S. And the engine I rebuilt wasn't a high performance race engine, or an aero engine, it was just a regular industrial diesel engine. I fully expect the SBI springs to perform better than OEM springs. https://www.sbintl.com/Product/DetailsENG?productId=20

........set about getting the contracts for all 5 drawbridges needed. However, when he tried to bribe the Knights Templar representative in DG - who just happened to be, one CT9000 - he found he was up against one tough gent - in fact, he was one tough, well-armed, gent. As Turbo entered his office, CT9000 swiftly produced his silver-plated and engraved Tonolini SxS 12 ga and pointed it at Turbo. "Just tell me again, what this bribe thing is?", he said menacingly. "It rates as a very unwise move in these parts, to offer bribes for contracts, son!" And Turbo gulped as he noticed both hammers were back. "You know".... CT went on. "The last time we had a bloke roll up here offering bribes to secure a major contract, he got.......

/graphics/ICAOtype/F406.gif Accident Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II VH-EYQ, Sunday 20 July 2025 ASN.FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG A Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II, VH-EYQ, impacted a field, 1.4 nm from runway 14 at Oakey Airport, QLD, Australia. Both occupants were seriously injured. The airplane was destroyed. The a...

I'd have to opine whatever originally held the shot in place has degraded to the point where the shot has become loose - an undesirable situation, I'd imagine. On the Vans aircraft, balance shot is held in place by epoxy. Perhaps this was also the case originally on the Terrier, but the epoxy has degraded with heat and aging, to the point where it let all the shot loose? Or perhaps there was a container of some type for the shot, that broke open?

.......and at that, DG immediately became known as the place where hard men lived, lives were short and fast, guns were in huge abundance, and produced at every minor argument, and most of the population lived underground, to avoid the sudden death that came with popping your head up unwisely, at any sound that could be................

Yes, that's good thinking in one respect, but grubs also live in grass, in their root systems, and plenty of birds go looking for grubs in the grass. I was watching the black kites on the oval directly adjacent to the Broome runway, and was surprised to see them walking considerable distances around the oval, checking the grass, and occasionally digging a grub or two out of it. There was a gathering of about 20 kites in one group, and quite a number of individual kites walking around. The grass on the oval is very short. I was quite interested in this behaviour, because I've never seen them on the ground much, they're usually spend 98% of their time just floating in big circles about 150'-200', looking for prey. They flock to any fires, knowing full well the fire is flushing out small prey. Cocos-Keeling islands runway on West Island provide some amusement, as regards bird discouragement. The runway has golf fairways each side, and the islands are full of wild bantams, brought there by the Cocos Malays. The bantams are fast and good flyers, and they can fly several hundred metres at probably 50'-60' altitude. They come out of the thick vegetation each side of the runway, and go looking for insects on the golf fairways. Discouragement of the bantams around the runway consists of a fast run down the runway in the airport ute, with all lights going! This makes all the bantams scatter, and fly back into the thick vegetation! This routine is carried out directly before each takeoff, whilst the aircraft is taxiing, to reduce the risk of bantam ingestion!

I'm in Broome at present, and it's a planespotters paradise of course, with everything from Cessnas to big and small choppers, B737's, A320's and a range of various size turboprops between about 10 and 30 seaters, all barrelling over the main streets of town at low enough altitude to nearly see the brand marks on the tyres. What surprised me is there appears to be no attempts at discouragement of birds around the airport, and there are PLENTY of them - all hanging around town, Roebuck Bay, and the airport, where all the food is, I guess. The black kites are a pretty big bird, much large than even the biggest ravens. However, the ravens seem to know where to avoid aircraft, but the black kites just don't care. The kites are constantly circling in steady glides with an occasional wing flap - and I watched a Cessna on descent roar overhead, at less than 200 feet altitude - and he passed directly over the top of two circling kites that were right in the flight path, and they never even changed their pattern. I reckon he only missed them by about 30 or 40 feet, I guess he would've seen them, but he made no course alteration to avoid the kites. I started checking up, and was surprised to find that not a single crash of an RPT due to bird strike, has been recorded in over 65 years of commercial aviation in Australia. There have been incidents of bird strikes where aircraft have had to return and land, due to bird strike damage, but never any incident where a bird or birds has brought an RPT aircraft down. Just goes to show, that the design engineers have bird strike protection well covered.

.......misheard what he was supposed to bring to the piss-up. However, Frankenstein soon turned out to be a riot, with his clown face, and antics such as digging up corpses for body parts. CT9000 was quite perturbed when he realised one of the "unwise men" he'd buried surreptitiously, appeared to arise on the third day (with the assistance of Frankenstein, of course), and when this unwise man was promptly produced at the piss-up, by Frankenstein, it gave CT9000 such a start, that he took to.........

One struggles to understand why a pilot with long standing in the aviation community, supposedly excellent piloting skills, and a fine aircraft, would place themselves in such a high-risk environment, as in flying right over the top of the Snowy Mts in seriously adverse weather and even more dangerous terrain. No doubt it will also puzzle the ATSB investigators, as well. One can only presume that old trait of complacency, that often comes with long experience, was the reason behind his poor decision-making.