When Ryan Air do it I beleive they call it "Early arrival" and charge an extra Euro as you deplane

I saw that the copilot had 600 hrs? If so, that's interesting. There's those cases of a super star straight A student who get a B and can't deal with the "failure". I don't think our beloved and very intelligent Flyboy got to his 320 at 600 hours. 630 - but its not clear if that is in the...

Well there goes the hypoxia theory.
Orangehuggy had it nailed last year

Why don't the engineers just program the FMS to do its own emergency descent to 12,000 or 14,000 or 15,000 or the MEA and then if you get your mask on or its a false alarm you just hit Gabe's click clack buttons and cancel it Yes, I used the word "just" from the arm chair in my parlour bu...

Hello chaps. Some questions if I may - Very few photographs of the site of impact but a great deal of the debris field - I can find no verifiable image of the supposed "point of impact". - Debris field is of course fascinating, with many many small pieces . I have been looking for pattern...

Return to consciousness depends on how much oxygen starvation your brain has suffered. So a gradual increase in cabin altitude to something like 25,000 feet over a minute and then another couple of minutes to get down to 10,000 you will have very mild hypoxia and may not even pass out. If you go fro...

This has to be a freak swiss-cheese scenario to make any sense. Aren't they all (usually need at least two slices e.g. after pilot fed dog, dog's mouth was full so it could not bite pilot before he pressed the button) It seems like a crew incapacitation event but somebody had to input a command to ...

Oh the joys of continuous news reporting:-
"The plane went down at approximately 10:45 local time GMT."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/32030778

Current reports are no survivors expected.

Amazing you didn't died. I am looking for an ATR-with-ice to download, but am worried that there might not be good livery choices. http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=atr1 Not sure if it models the deteriation in flight control, but certainly the ice warning comes on in icing conditions and...

Marty - you have acheived something that I never thought I would ever see. 3BS and Gabriel finding an FB post so obviously correct and dismissing the minutae thrown in by a trolling parlour talker. Truly astounding. I'm not sure what the hell to do now either. Recently Hilditch agreed with me as we...

Boeing press release. http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1685 CHICAGO, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A World Trade Organization final case ruling published today confirms the massive market advantage Airbus has enjoyed from billions in illegal government subsidies provided to fund...

Marty - you have acheived something that I never thought I would ever see. 3BS and Gabriel finding an FB post so obviously correct and dismissing the minutae thrown in by a trolling parlour talker. Truly astounding.

Cammos vs trackpants. Hope that helps.

yep - except the civilian is the one in cammos - go figure

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n565/AndrewToop/adc%20store/isurgent.jpg http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n565/AndrewToop/adc%20store/civillian.jpg So one is a "civilian" and the west have gone to war against a legitimate government who was threatening to kill him. The other is an ...

Hitler was a better painter than Churchill: he could paint a whole apartment in one afternoon, two coats."

Damn - could do with Hitler to sort out the kitchen and hallways - its going to take me a couple of weeks.

Tiocfaidh ár lá, Andy.

Next time I'm in Skegness

Took problem chimp to the Ideal Home Show... Factoid: yours truly attended the Ideal Home Show the day before the IRA bombed it in the 70's. 27 March 1976: A bomb placed by the Provisional IRA exploded in a litter bin at the top of an escalator in a crowded exhibition hall, Earl's Court. 20,000 peo...

So in 3 months when you find you're running a trip with this guy again will this incident affect how you brief the approach and potential for a go around?

Can you bring back some sense to these forums?

IMHO Fastest way to do that would be to take your little red pen and shove it where the sun dont shine. You make amy b seem restrained and unbiased.

6th fatality confirmed. RIP

Manx2 flight from Belfast to Cork. At least 5 dead, reportedly on its third attempt to land.

BBC Report

<updated as 5 now confirmed to have died - earlier it was reported in same link as 3>

Ed, I am going to Tweet all my followers that you are a bad person. You have been warned.

you are bad man - i call jihad on you

Is Jihad on twitter now too - We is freinds on FB and he digs my mySpace. I'll have to poke him and tell him to follow me innit.

A small aircraft used for "Homeland Security Training" (whatever that is, sounds like freeby hours for some) with a flight instructor on board made a successful emergency landing on an interstate in the US, not much known about the time /traffic etc. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110201/ap...

I think we should adopt their forum rules 1. Order at the forum should be moderators. 2. This forum - for a friendly and compassionate communication. Treat the other person with respect. The forum is strictly prohibited profanity, rough transition to the individual, malicious jokes and all sorts of ...