Denny Yen

Royal Navy is sending its ships to Spain to pickup stranded Brits. It was reported that some paid thousands of GBP to hire taxi to drive back to UK.

Sat image of volcanic ash...rotate it 180deg and you see scary image...

These dramatic photos show the post-landing event as it unfold...passengers are first to be off, followed by crew, rallying point next to rwy. Time-line... zoom in of engine...

Title is misleading...the "news" is not the burst tires, but engine shutdown midflight... One engine had to be shut down midflight, and as it was approaching HKG airport, the remaining engine encountered problems with irregular on/of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdS1kMr2Uds

Other news sources reported that Viva got is licence revoked due to safety rules violation: http://www.theage.com.au/national/airline-grounded-20100329-r8b5.html

I don't think HND will be opened up to more int'l destinations because just domestic alone, it is over capacity and some domestic flights are served by NRT. Int'l flights to HND are very limited basis...these flights are not as frequent and their times change every month if compared to the regular flights. There're 2 types of int'l flights into HND...from Seoul (tourist charter flights, for e.g, tour agencies chartering the whole a/) and business charters (catering for businessmen going and coming back within 1 day, flying to cities located on China northern east-coast cities only) - normally available on weekdays only on a more expensive ticket price. The other type is Japanese govt (PM or emperor) and foreign dignitaries flights.

Body scanners can be adjusted to reflect images in exposure levels... http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/full-body-scanner-imposes-indecency-displaying-form-

Just 7 days ago, FAA issued emergency airworthiness directive ordering inspection of elevator tabs on 737-600, -700, -800, -900 and -900ER http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2011337545&zsection_id=2003750727&slug=boeing737s13&date=20100313

Congrats TK...remember we were just talking about moving on to captain in Nov '09 when you last visited here. So, would you be taking MH69 to RCTP for some "bird watching" at downtown?

Other sources said it is a fire cracker... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8579353.stm

Negative...Toyota sticky pedal problem has nothing to do with software...it is a purely mechanical issue. First recall is due to snow non-slip rubber floor mats which are too high causing pedals to be jammed by the mat's edges. Second recall is due to mechanical + fluid problem, the fluid at the contact points of accelerator pedal and surface deterioration of those parts.

Recording of ATC... http://liveatc-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/new-kjfk-controller.mp3

Pitot problems first recorded in 1994... Thales knew about the root cause and pitot reading discrepancies as early as 2002... Airbus recommendation for pitot replacement for A330 in 2007... http://luckybogey.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/airbusbea-pointing-their-finger-at-the-big-cloud-in-the-sky/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,679980,00.html

crap,...no Google Earth streetview of the boneyard...I was hoping for something like this..

This is not a vortex...its leaking fuel from a Thomas Cook 757 after TO from Birmingham...remember this? "...Concorde 4590, you have flames...you have flames behind you..." http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2864296/Leaking-on-a-jet-plane.html

1st flight on 1/15/2010 after re-birth...

Some close-ups of pre-LCF...unable to tell if its MPA. Those hangars are operated by EGAT (Evergreen Aviation Tech, part of Evergreen group that owns EVA Air) - occasionally you can see a/c from airlines that don't fly to RCTP/TPE being serviced inside. I think there're 4 or 5 hangars nowadays.

Sentosa Hospital - I'm surprised MWingers knew about it...that was like almost 3 decades ago in 80s when I was still a school kid taking public bus's route along Jln TAR.

An ATR-72 used to transport recovered bodies from CI 611 inflight breakup crash near Pescadores islands back to main island crashed 6mths later near same vicinity. Strangely the ATR-72 pilots are the same for both flights. Also, CI 611 CVR recorded the captain singing to himself the Teresa Teng song "When will you return" - according to family, this captain hated signing or going to KTV.

Regarding the dimmer switch - it is not a mechanical/moving parts contraption. Its a combination of chemistry and physics, a kind of technology that is more than 30 years old such as those used in electronic calculators (monochrome) in 1970s. I think the dimmer works on liquid crystals - when electrical charge is turned on, the crystals will lined up in a certain axis to block light passing through.