travel thread

[ChiComCat]

Nobody guessed my airport pic, obviously it’s easy, but I’ll have additional food and restaurant updates when I get back home.

I don't know where it is but am disturbed at the hand grabbing America's crotch

[420seriouscat69]

We've got some friends in DC who've got a cabin up in West Virginia in the mountains about an hour North. We'll be heading that way in June to fish, pak, and hang out in the wilderness. Anyone been up that way? Pro tips? Never been to DC. My check it out on that Sunday.

[michigancat]

Nobody guessed my airport pic, obviously it’s easy, but I’ll have additional food and restaurant updates when I get back home.

PHX?

[The Big Train]

Nobody guessed my airport pic, obviously it’s easy, but I’ll have additional food and restaurant updates when I get back home.

PHX?

Yep!

[halfEmpty]

Have a conference in Omaha next week for 3 days.  First time actually stopping in Omaha, for any reason other than needing gas, since I was a kid.

[The Big Train]

Someone died on a SW flight today after an engine exploded

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Someone died on a SW flight today after an engine exploded

Pilot has KC ties
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article209178274.html

[Mrs. Gooch]

Great, now we are going to get a bunch of new fatigue regulations. (Not for at least 10 years though because the FAA is super slow at implementing new regulations.)

[Trim]

Gonna be mad scrambles on southwest flights now with passengers trying to grab those non-window seats.

[steve dave]

Have a conference in Omaha next week for 3 days.  First time actually stopping in Omaha, for any reason other than needing gas, since I was a kid.

get ready to freeze your entire face off because spring is never rough ridin' coming

[star seed 7]

Women pilots smdh

[Mrs. Gooch]

Women pilots smdh

You mean the woman pilot who landed the airplane safely after an engineering failure?

[pissclams]

Great, now we are going to get a bunch of new fatigue regulations. (Not for at least 10 years though because the FAA is super slow at implementing new regulations.)

this is your wheelhouse.  this wasn’t an airframe failure, it seems pretty obvious that the engine failure was due to a lack of following existing maintenance guidelines, no? this is the first fatality on a us airline in 9 years, planes aren’t dropping from the sky

[Mrs. Gooch]

Great, now we are going to get a bunch of new fatigue regulations. (Not for at least 10 years though because the FAA is super slow at implementing new regulations.)

this is your wheelhouse.  this wasn’t an airframe failure, it seems pretty obvious that the engine failure was due to a lack of following existing maintenance guidelines, no? this is the first fatality on a us airline in 9 years, planes aren’t dropping from the sky

My understanding is that the engine manufacturer had issued a SB (Service Bulletin) but the FAA had not yet issued an AD (Airworthiness Directive), so without an AD it is basically just a suggested from the manufacturer, not a legal requirement. EASA (European Aviation Safety Authority) had made it mandatory for EASA registered aircraft just last month.

The SB told them to perform an ultrasonic inspection on the fan blades to inspect for potential fatigue cracks before they became critical size that would fail in flight.

[Mrs. Gooch]

Also there was another incident in 2016 that appears to be very similar. Same engine, with a fan blade failure. That one just ripped a hole in the wing and landed safely. That incident is what prompted EASA to put the mandatory AD on the engines. I think the FAA was in the process of doing the same, but as I said they are really slow.

[pissclams]

thanks, the head of the faa was interviewed on 60 minutes last sunday regarding allegiance air’s shittyness.  the guy seemed like the mother of all downgrades. sounds like this poor woman’s death lays and his feet

[Phil Titola]

Gonna be mad scrambles on southwest flights now with passengers trying to grab those non-window seats.

17A and 17F 14A / 14F

[mocat]

Great, now we are going to get a bunch of new fatigue regulations. (Not for at least 10 years though because the FAA is super slow at implementing new regulations.)

this is your wheelhouse.  this wasn’t an airframe failure, it seems pretty obvious that the engine failure was due to a lack of following existing maintenance guidelines, no? this is the first fatality on a us airline in 9 years, planes aren’t dropping from the sky

My understanding is that the engine manufacturer had issued a SB (Service Bulletin) but the FAA had not yet issued an AD (Airworthiness Directive), so without an AD it is basically just a suggested from the manufacturer, not a legal requirement. EASA (European Aviation Safety Authority) had made it mandatory for EASA registered aircraft just last month.

The SB told them to perform an ultrasonic inspection on the fan blades to inspect for potential fatigue cracks before they became critical size that would fail in flight.

image that, a downgrade airline doesn't GAF about safety unless they're forced to

[420seriouscat69]

 

[Mrs. Gooch]

One article I read said that the FAA had issued an AD last year, but I haven't been able to find any AD meeting these criteria.

[michigancat]

[ChiComCat]

I'm going on a limb and saying PHX

[michigancat]

I'm going on a limb and saying PHX

Wow you're good at this!

[The Big Train]

[Mrs. Gooch]

Great, now we are going to get a bunch of new fatigue regulations. (Not for at least 10 years though because the FAA is super slow at implementing new regulations.)

this is your wheelhouse.  this wasn’t an airframe failure, it seems pretty obvious that the engine failure was due to a lack of following existing maintenance guidelines, no? this is the first fatality on a us airline in 9 years, planes aren’t dropping from the sky

My understanding is that the engine manufacturer had issued a SB (Service Bulletin) but the FAA had not yet issued an AD (Airworthiness Directive), so without an AD it is basically just a suggested from the manufacturer, not a legal requirement. EASA (European Aviation Safety Authority) had made it mandatory for EASA registered aircraft just last month.

The SB told them to perform an ultrasonic inspection on the fan blades to inspect for potential fatigue cracks before they became critical size that would fail in flight.

image that, a downgrade airline doesn't GAF about safety unless they're forced to

The FAA issued an emergency AD requiring inspection of all CFM56-7B engines within 20 days (from April 20) so try not to fly on an airplane with that engine before May 11.