J.O.

This video shows the actual collision sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZgWCrFoXI

The CRJ appears to be stationary. If this is true, it means they did indeed stop well short of the hold line. I'm not saying they are at fault because it is the responsibility of the crew of each moving aircraft to ensure they are avoiding all obstacles, but a taxi clearance for the A350 crew may have created a false sense of security, especially if it is routine to taxi past regional aircraft holding short on that taxiway.

The First Officer's experience and spidey senses definitely saved the day. I hope we never find out the hard way but I am left wondering if a brand new FO would have done the same, or would they have obeyed company policy which says the FO must stay "head down" during a CAT III approach and landing or go-around?

On 9/9/2024 at 6:54 PM, Rich Pulman said:

What’s a “Tudor”?

This is two Tudors.

On 9/9/2024 at 6:54 PM, Rich Pulman said:

What’s a “Tudor”?

This is a Tudor.

17 hours ago, dagger said:

Had me thinking of some of the pedestrian-vehicle accidents we have where the driver of a pickup or large SUV is so high off the ground he or she literally doesn't see a pedestrian walking in front of the vehicle. I wonder if the cockpit crew of the 350 could even see the smaller plane from up close, or at least had trouble estimating distance and speed at such close quarters as it came upon the CRJ

The A350 is the largest aircraft in the Delta fleet. I've flown the A330 and it's almost impossible to properly judge wingtip clearance from the flight deck, and the A350 would only be even more difficult. In the case of this incident, the captain would be relying on the first officer to be monitoring that side of the aircraft. On Juan Brown's YouTube channel, he did an analysis of the scene based on the pictures and he believes that if the CRJ had been parked at the hold line, there would have been adequate clearance. Since the CRJ was parked about 50 feet short of that line, the A350's wingtip was perfectly aligned with the tail of the CRJ.

Cal Fire had to work their way past a long line of roadblocks to bring the C130 program online. There were big challenges with ownership / chain of custody and replacement parts tracking and a lot of folks believed they'd never pull it off. This is a good thing for their program. Their S2s are pretty long in the tooth and require significant work to extend their service life. In addition to being another effective tool in the kit, the Hercs will give them the breathing room to get that work done on the S2s.

If the employer is not being honest, don't they deserve to be called out for it? Who better to do that than the people who have evidence of the truth?

He may have been gone for a good long time, but the more I read and hear about this situation, the more I feel that Milton's presence is still permeating the place. Sad.

1 hour ago, Seeker said:

So, the railway workers are forced back to work and two years from now the Supreme Court deems the gov's action illegal - what are the implications, what remedy or compensation is due?

I see the AC pilots in the same situation; it goes to midnight and they're out on the street (strike or lockout) after a short period (couple of days or a week) the gov instructs the CIRB to direct them to arbitration and they go back to work.  The arbitration process results in a new contract and 2 years later the Supreme Court says the whole thing was illegal.  Now what?  Too bad, so sad and the pilots get nothing?

IMHO, the court would only be ruling on the constitutionality of the government's action to end the rail lockout. Whatever collective agreements may result from the government's intervention are not grist for that particular mill. So as Turbofan rightly suggests, you have to go to the table aiming to get the best deal you can because whether or not you were ordered back to work won't matter. The courts will never force the cork back into the bottle in that regard.

4 hours ago, neverminds said:

I don't think #3 will be used either. I think they will stick with #1 this time and let it play out, for better or for worse. When the AC pilots are able to walk of September 17, the house will be in session so that makes legislating back to work a little easier. Would the NDP support the LIBs on said legislation? who knows, but wouldn't it be a terrible look on the Conservatives not to support the Libs in that case? They are the pro-business party after all

The NDP has already stated publicly that they do not support forcing the railways back to work, so the Liberal's can't get back to work legislation passed using their "coalition" with the NDP. The big question will be, what do the Conservatives do if the Liberals reconvene parliament in an effort to legislate an end to the rail strike? If the CPC votes against it, they're basically saying all their talk about damage to the economy was just talk and that politics are more important. If they vote in favour, well let's just say I'd be loading up on popcorn and sitting back to watch the show.

That runway is long overdue for a RESA upgrade. The best way to minimize the footprint would be to invest in EMAS. 

That would be a violation of our commitments to NAFTA / CUSMA

I feel for those folks who are facing an uncertain future - for some, for the third or fourth time.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-jetlines-halts-operations-plans-for-creditor-protection/ar-AA1oR5uU?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=720f3b68afcf491aa385d298765d21a4&ei=26

Apparently the engine shutdown was a precaution for a low oil pressure indication.

That was nasty. I know someone who's an AME at WestJet - he posted a video of the hail from his deck. His wife's car and the siding on their house both took serious damage.

Juan provides some good context here, but his opening statement kind of says it all.

They had the correct altimeter setting. It sounds like they mistook the Courtney Campbell causeway for the runway. It also appears they did not get any GPWS warnings. The NTSB report should make for some interesting reading.

Now if only the airplane was as "state of the art" as the simulator. 

Weird. The FAA is a signatory to the ICAO DG technical instructions and US carriers must conform with the IATA Dangerous Goods regulations. They are very clear as to what documentation and declarations are required to carry lithium batteries "in equipment" as cargo. There's no exemptions from those requirements for passenger and crew baggage and there's no FAA difference listed. I must be missing something somewhere but if it was my bum strapped in the seat, I would not be crazy about there being a bunch of laptops and iPads sitting somewhere in the cargo hold, especially given the way some ramp crews like to throw around passenger baggage.

On 7/13/2024 at 8:05 AM, Malcolm said:

A "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly":

In layman's terms, this is known a "KABOOM".

On 7/13/2024 at 2:03 PM, Malcolm said:

And to make it even more interesting, AA says no to laptop check in, Delta says yes and the beat goes on airline by airline and then of course country by country. 

That's interesting. The regulations are very clear on the matter - any rechargeable batteries must be declared and packaged as dangerous goods to be placed in a cargo hold. Delta must have applied for an exemption to allow them in checked baggage.

I hope the company pulled back on their effort to rob the retirement plan to fund the wage increase. 

O’Regan is being disingenuous. It was his own government’s past policy decisions regarding right to strike that led to the language in the CIRB’s order. If he truly wanted to stop the strike, they should have reconvened parliament and put forward emergency legislation, but doing that would have forced the NDP’s hand in deciding if they would continue to support the government, or vote against it. No, a vote against wouldn’t topple the “coalition”, but it would make it very difficult for the tenuous coalition to hold going forward. 

18 hours ago, conehead said:

I don’t see how. Garbage doesn’t spontaneously combust in the ditch.

... the Elephant Hill wildfire enters the chat. Story goes that a shattered piece of glass magnified the sunlight and set off the paper bag it was in.

I've said this many times before - the company comes to the negotiating table with a bucket of money. So long as the flights are crewed appropriately, they don't much care for how that bucket gets divvied up. But legislating the change as proposed doesn't magically make that bucket any bigger.