If you're gonna fly to Mali, get a few full jerrycans with you. They're out of Jet A1.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-advises-airlines-refuel-elsewhere-due-aviation-fuel-shortage-2024-07-10/
Mali is currently unable to refuel commercial aircraft in its capital Bamako due to fuel shortages and is asking airlines to refuel elsewhere until next week
Found this one here today in San Antonio, Texas.
It's either been here most of a month or it's not the first to pass through. And for the record, I'm still very irked about Aer Lingus killing off the distinctive green color scheme.
Seems to be ex-EI LBR, there for conversion to a fire-fighting tanker according to one on-line source. Flew on her a few times to/from Shannon.
Great spot.
Stolen from YLYL
Etna keeps at it
https://t.me/Disaster_News/4194
Aircraft Captain lays down the law on a flight, we need more like this:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13731331/Hilarious-moment-Tui-pilot-channels-inner-headteacher-tells-rowdy-passengers-lays-ground-rules-family-flight-Tenerife.html
Reg spotted in Waterford
https://www.facebook.com/wataviation/posts/pfbid02GTNDhymxUMdptMX4GZLVWkPvBBgc3kN1mvYh4qBNt9hjRW9qURtdC2hxjXqAzKMCl
A pair of scissors went missing in a shop in New Chitose Airport, Japan. 36 flights cancelled. 201 delayed. Everyone had to redo security checks. The scissors were found in the shop the next day.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9d7gg2599o
Nice programme on Concord on BBC4 at the moment…
Really nice end of flypast… ;-)
https://www.reddit.com/r/420PT/comments/1fl30oo/best_ending_to_an_airshow_ever_21sec_vid/
Saw this on R/Ireland.
Pilot taking liberty landing on the farmers land .. or a slight inconvenience.
@joujoujou He was just starting his approach there
Ahhhhhh my browser and poor Internet connection didn't like all those photos, please don't post that many! 😂
Likely due weather, strong north easterly wind and rain with low ceiling.
R118 route from Ballina to… Galway just now…. presumably the hospital, looks like they picked up from Ballina GAA grounds. Hope whoever is onboard is OK.
a DHL cargo plane has crashed into residential buildings in Vilnius, Lithuania.
1st thought: Russia
I wouldn't have thought so. 3 survived.
Happened on finals.
video of the crash
Plane was a 737-400 operated for DHL by Swift Air
https://x.com/kyracloudy/status/1860944354157965779?s=46
looks like a loss of power
Was wondering if anyone heard a sonic boom over Kerry about 01.55 this morning , live about 3km from coast outside Tralee. Unexplained noise that woke us, have been woken by antonovs in the past with the right weather conditions but this was different, like a few loud thuds.
Anyone know what's going on at Weston seems ATC service's have been suspended since early November?
Just flew back recently on a Lufthansa A380 from SE Asia. I had forgotten just how nice it is to fly on and what a magnificent piece of engineering it was.
They'll be around for at least another 20 years and if Emirates shouted loud enough at the lads in Toulouse i'd be pretty certain they ramp production back up, maybe a NEO version, although i'm sure they could pick up every other spare going around
They shut down production despite Emirates publicly asking for a NEO version at the time.
Who knows, Boeing won't have anything new in the skies for about 10 years. Maybe Tata might come calling for them too with their expansion plans. It's not beyond the realms of possibility they are produced in the future however unlikely it seems
The tooling and supply chain is gone. They won't resume production.
I know this article is last June but with Boeing a sh!t**** currently, and no real alternatives out there, it's not impossible to think it could ramp up again. Qatar also have a heap of banger 777's i believe so god knows what their plans are. My point being, that between Emirates, the potential of Tata and the rest of the big boys, stranger things have happened. Although, i'm sure AIRBUS are working on other major projects
my Dad found a 1979 copy of Cara in a stash of stuff…. I’d no idea that magazine went back that far.
Volume number would suggest it started in 1967
Didn't notice it was himself getting off until I zoomed in.
plane spotting from my hotel balcony
N882TP operated National Test Pilot school. No idea what it’s doing over the Arabian desert.
