News and notes from around the interweb:
- They didn’t like the fish.
BREAKING: United Airlines jet … with 48 people onboard … backs into food service truck at #Newark Airport .. driver of truck hurt … no one on plane injured #nbc4ny #EWR pic.twitter.com/F6RB3bZIKI
— Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) August 3, 2018
- A Qantas cabin crew member was fired after having to go to the hospital with a blood alcohol level over 0.2. He appealed arguing that his 5 cocktails couldn’t have produced that level of intoxication, so it must have been someone else’s fault. Qantas had to cover $20,000 in charges. He lost the appeal, which surprises me because this is Australian labor law — another Qantas flight attendant won AU$33,000 after being fired for theft and lying, with the government calling that firing ‘harsh’.
- Meanwhile two Iraqi Airways pilots have been fired after getting into a fight in the cockpit over meal service while enroute to Baghdad with 137 passengers onboard. They both have bright futures as US air marshals.
- Boeing’s 737 ramp up slows as unfinished planes pile up in Renton
- Many of you may already know that the classic comedy Airplane! is a recreation of the 1957 disaster film Zero Hour!. Here’s a great frame-by-frame comparison of the two films.
- Don’t behave this way at immigration. It can only end badly. (Language NSFW.)
Gary I have a brach office not far from the plant and stay at the Hyatt the “yard” is not that much crowded than usual. That particular shot you posted I have never seen empty, never. Several bloggers have been posting of late how Boeing is having issues with the 737. Yes there is an issue with the CFM motors which seem to be industry wide these days, witness RR who I also understand have a failed engine in a new navy ship brand new one !
(As some of the posts in the tweet have commented) It seems likely that the United ground crew, not the pilot, were primarily at fault. Unless the pilot was using reverse thrusters, the aircraft would have been pushed back with a tractor, so the tractor driver and other ground crew should have seen the food service truck. And airport ground vehicles must give right-of-way to moving aircraft.