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This morning, Virgin Blue re-brands as Virgin Australia. As an employee of the airline, it’s been a little frustrating that I haven’t been able to share what little information I understood to be true but, thanks to the investigative blogging of our newest Aussie podcast partner, Will Horton, he’s been able to uncover certain clues [...]
Attached are two documents that seemingly appear to be genuine Airbus documentation detailing damage done to QF32 as a result of the uncontained failure on the Airbus A380 earlier this month. The first document, QF32-A380-Damage-Overview.pdf, appears to be a PowerPoint slide presented by Thomas Montagne, Airbus’ Technical Services Manager. It presents an overview of major [...]
We considered devoting a segment on the uncontained engine failure of Qantas Flight 32 (VH-OQA, an Airbus A380) in the latest episode of Flight Podcast, but decided it was inappropriate to address the issues in any detail in the early stages void of any real or formal investigation. We have a panel of experts that [...]
I had the opportunity to talk to Eric Moody in the company of Karlene, Ken and Adam yesterday as part of a new aviation podcast at FlightPodcast.com that we’re in the final stages of releasing. Eric is most famous for experiencing a 4-engine failure in a British Airways Boeing 747 as a result of volcanic [...]
In case you’ve been living underground the last few days, United Airlines and Continental Airlines have announced a merger that will make it the worlds’ largest airline, surpassing Delta in size, and creating a single brand that will service 370 destinations in 59 countries. The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, [...]
Every now and again there’s a print advertisement in the airline world that makes you question the intent of the marketing company. Were they looking for a slot on media watch? Were they looking to have their awful advert circulated via the web for brand awareness? Were the designers on drugs at the time… or [...]
I have only just discovered and watched a UK Channel 4 documentary by Dispatches titled “Ryanair: Caught Napping” which was initially broadcast on the 13th February 2006. The program sent two undercover reporters into the Ryanair organisation for five months who secretly filmed Ryanair’s training programs, operation and ‘cockpit confessions’ as part of operational cabin [...]
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From all of the contributors at flight.org, we would like to wish you all the best of the holiday … [Read More...]
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