News and notes from around the interweb:
- Would Air France 447 have happened if the flight was operated by a Boeing aircraft?
- Another dog died on a Delta flight while connecting in Detroit
- Delta improves upgrades for elites flying Aeromexico. Aeromexico, part-owned by Delta, operates as a vassal state which is a major reason they’re now attacking Emirates. the Gulf carrier issue has been resolved in the U.S. but Mexico is another bite at the apple.
- How corruption in Malaysia interfered with the search for MH370 (HT: Jeff W)
- TSA dance-off with a kid in Orlando. (HT: @Kalbozey)
When Preston started doing the floss dance above the @TSA checkpoint at MCO, he caught the attention of an officer below who was headed to his break. Impressed by the kid's sweet dance moves, he decided his break could wait for a little fun and an impromptu dance-off. 🕺 pic.twitter.com/lINJ0eB2jx
— Orlando International Airport (@MCO) June 1, 2018
- US is trying to figure out how to pay for Kim Jnng Un’s hotel stay in Singapore
I’m sick of the pets dying and the abuse of the ESA rules stories. Pets don’t belong in the cargo hold if they can’t be safe in the process, but pets also can’t take priority over paying passengers based on their fake ESA titles/documents. There needs to be a compromise. Place pets at the back of the cabin with a partition (like a smoking, non-smoking section of an establishments). Tighten rules on ESAs. Ask passengers to declare their allergies in their reservations. I don’t know, but this is all ridiculous.
Gary, the story link on AF 447 only tells part of the story, what happened after the junior flight crew was already deep in trouble. The primary causes were:
1) Defective pitot tubes that hadn’t been replaced under recall and
2) An unusual weather condition known as super-chilled water which froze the pitot tubes.
Here is a video that shows the science behind super-chilled water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0adi0lQkC8A
When the pitot tubes froze, the auto-pilot began to shutdown and the junior air crew were faced with a parade of error messages that appeared faster than they could read them. On top of that, the Captain was in the crew rest area and the junior crew flying the plane failed to immediately call the Captain back to the flight deck. Now the story of the dueling joysticks comes into play.
The problem with commercial flying today is that pilots are becoming too dependent on automated systems and less on actually flying the airplane old school. One of the recommendations from the investigation is that pilots need more training in high-speed stall recovery.
Flight number in headline and in bullet point don’t match
Super interesting and informative post on the AF447, Always discuss similar points with my friends and I agree 100% on the Boeing advantage on many of the exposed points.