Accidents/Incidents
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Cranky on the Web: An Air Show Air Show Wrap, The Best and Worst Airports
The Best Airports in the US…and the Worst – BottomLineI did a long interview with someone from BottomLine asking about features of…
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3 Links I Love: A Ukrainian Look at the Crash, Another Hall-of-Famer Retires, JetBlue Goes Green(er)
This Week’s Featured Link How Ukrainian plane crash went from ‘engine failure’ to ‘Iranian attack’ – Kyiv PostI find myself wondering if…
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3 Links I Love: Tarmac Delay Lives, Bumpy LAX-it, Lion Air Report
This week’s featured link: DOT proposes changes to extended tarmac delay regulation – ATWJust when you thought the tarmac delay rule was…
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3 Links I Love: American’s Pain Continues, Captain Haynes, Origins of Economy
This week’s featured link: Canceled flights, wrecked vacations and leaky planes: Passenger frustrations rise as American Airlines struggles – Dallas Morning NewsThe…
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After Reading the Preliminary Report, A Change of Heart on the 737 MAX Grounding
After Ethiopian 302 crashed on takeoff from Addis Ababa, I thought the decision to ground the airplane was hasty. But now after…
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Did an Airbus A330 Have the Same Problem as the 737 MAX? (Ask Cranky)
It’s time for another edition of Ask Cranky and today, it provides a good excuse to write more about Boeing’s 737 MAX…
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Whether the MAX Should Have Been Grounded or Not, Boeing Finds Itself in Hot Water
In my post last Thursday, I laid out why I thought the 737 MAX shouldn’t have been grounded with the information we…
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In Defense of Not Grounding the 737 MAX… Even Though It’s Now Grounded
When the 737 MAX operating Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed on takeoff from Addis Ababa last Sunday, the pressure immediately began to…
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3 Links I Love: The Lion Air Crash, An A220 Mini-Series, WOW’s Plan
This week’s featured link: Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark – The New York TimesThis accident has…
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The Grave Threat Posed by Aircraft Thieves (or Not)
When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I…
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Cranky on the Web: Rethinking Window Seats After Southwest 1380
Window seat or aisle? After Southwest incident, some fliers think twice – CNN Money If you read the title of this post…
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Southwest’s Post-Accident Response Starts the Right Way, But The Road is Long
At first, it seemed like a routine engine failure. Sure, the pictures coming off Southwest flight 1380 looked bad as did the…