Casual travelers demand cheap tickets. Airline CEOs demand fat paychecks. Something (someone) has to give.

(Written on 2022年 09月 08日)(Permalink)

Every single word of this comment is demonstrably wrong.

(Written on 2022年 09月 06日)(Permalink)

Didn’t know George Costanza was flying.

(Written on 2022年 07月 25日)(Permalink)

AF 11?

(Written on 2022年 06月 10日)(Permalink)

Or just forgetting something important.

(Written on 2022年 06月 10日)(Permalink)

But you’re absolutely right about the mid-air refueling.

(Written on 2022年 06月 02日)(Permalink)

Preferably to be performed by a random passenger.

(Written on 2022年 05月 17日)(Permalink)

An interesting preliminary theory is that the localizer signal experienced interference, causing a (horizontal, not vertical) excursion from the ILS landing path. This would probably not be a 5G issue, which seems to be limited to radio altimeters. No indication so far that there was a deviation from the glide slope.

(Written on 2022年 04月 07日)(Permalink)

Blancolirio channel on YouTube. Juan Browne is a 777 pilot, offers his interpretation of the voice recording, which (but of course!) is in French.

(Written on 2022年 04月 07日)(Permalink)

I don't have full confidence in Boeing and the US authorities on these subjects, after the issues with the 737 MAX and 787 build quality. So control over this aspect of the investigation (assuming the US and Boeing are able to participate or observe) doesn't seem to me to be so critial.

(Written on 2022年 03月 28日)(Permalink)