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  1. Yes it was reported but not much detail. I did check with my friend a Qatar B787 rep at Boeing factory in South Carolina but he told me it was still under investigation.
  2. http://blog.thetravelinsider.info/2013/07/another-787-fire-but-kept-secret-until-now.html#.UfvL8yIV7zk.facebook
  3. If MH management is not in oblivion like LH, KL, AF or BA; any route which 738 is overcapacity, serve with ERJ/CRJ; any route which is within 2 hours from KUL, nightstop ERJ/CRJ or 738 for early morning departure to KUL for connection. It would never materialised
  4. "Alif A. F." I fully agree that ILS should be reinstalled ASAP, however looking at some comments on the other website I think some of the comments signal their (I don't know their background, probably the average Joes) general lack of confidence in piloting skills, to which I find it a bit offensive. As if pilots can't do anything when there is no automation. This is just my thought on this issue. I am not sure if you a pilot yourself. There is a distinct difference between ILS and VOR. ILS is a precision approach and VOR is non- precision approach. ILS uses glide slope and localiser for approaches and landings but VOR does not. There are other differences like DH/DA and MDA. Perhaps, Radzi could explain in details.
  5. Actually, when did they become sick? Enroute from Santiago to Sydney the flight would have been over or near Auckland NZ, and if the pax were already sick, the crew should have made enroute diversion.
  6. Saudia hostess calls passenger 'darling'... two families evicted Saudi families face trial for swearing at stewardess Published Saturday, July 27, 2013 Saudi airport authorities expelled two local families, including a police officer and a mosque preacher, from an aircraft and intend to prosecute them for swearing at an Arab stewardess who addressed a foreign passenger as darling. The incident caused a delay in the domestic flight of more than one hour before airport security men boarded the Saudia passenger aircraft and escorted the two families out. The Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said the incident started when the preacher rebuked the stewardess after hearing her calling the foreign passenger darling. It said a Saudi police officer with his family then intervened after the stewardess ignored the preacher and started to flirt with a steward in the aircraft. “Instead of apologizing to us, the Saudia Airways expelled us from the aircraft and asked the authorities to arrest us,” said the preacher, Khaled Al Muhaizi. Muhaizi told the paper he was flying from the capital Riyadh to the western Red Sea port of Jeddah to perform Umra (mini pilgrimage) with his family when the stewardess started to utter “such rude words in front of our families.” “A Saudi officer was sitting in front of us and he had his wife and a baby with him…we both tried to draw the stewardess’ attention but she retorted rudely. “She violated the traditions of the country where she works…instead of punishing her, she was treated as a victim and we as defendants…security men detained us at the airport from midnight until dawn before releasing us on bail pending trial.”
  7. "He adds that Airbus is also hiking the maximum take-off weight of the A330, raising it from 235t to 242t, which will extend the range of the -300 by 500nm (930km)" Additional 500nm would translate slightly more than 1hr flight time. Average speed during cruise is 480nm per hour in still air. I think A300 flies at .81mach
  8. All A330 classics are out of system. Whereas, there are 11 B734s still operational (not sure those on heavy maintenance checks) The list MMB MMD MMF MMJ MML MMU MMW and MMX and MQA MQB and MQE
  9. Airbus will fix the cracks. As for MAS A380, Airbus could not allocate the slots as agreed this year, most probably MAS A380 will be rectified next February.
  10. During the ceremony for the delivery of the 100th A-330 aircraft to the Hong Kong-based company Cathay Pacific, Airbus Chief Operating Officer - Customers John Leahy declared that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an "Unreliable" airplane, suggesting that it was rushed to the market. "It's pretty obvious -Leahy claimed- that this airplane is not reliable and does not have mature systems. You can keep it flying but it's going to cost you a lot of maintenance. What they've got is an architecture that is not mature and that will eventually become mature. It's going to take a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of cancelled flights. And maybe redesign quite a few systems onboard". This kind of comments is unusual: the challenge between the two world giants of the aerospace industry is usually characterized by declarations with which the executives of the two companies tease each other, but normally, for a tacit convention, no coments about safety are made.
  11. I was made to understand that there are a few teething problems on commercial/airport services side eg checked-in and baggage systems so there might be delay in departures.Also electrical power to airlines offices is yet to be installed
  12. Asiana Crash Victim May Have Been Hit By Two Vehicles A teenager who was thrown to the runway in the Asiana Airways plane crash earlier this month was killed when she was run over by at least one and maybe two rescue vehicles racing to the crash, officials said [yesterday]. The cause of death for Ye Mengyuan, 16, was multiple blunt trauma "consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle," San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said in a news conference today. A forensic examination revealed that she was alive at the time when she was hit, he said. San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said she believes it was a specialized rig that came from the airport that fatally struck Mengyuan. "My understanding is that she was not standing up. She was on the ground when our rigs, one rig or possibly two, made contact with her," Hayes-White said.
  13. Saudi Airlines defends ban on Israeli passengers The director general of Saudi Arabian Airlines, Khalid al-Melhem, responded to recent criticisms and threats to ban his airline from U.S. airports for allegedly violating federal law by "discriminating" against Israelis and Jews. He noted there is no political relationship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel. “If there is an absence of political relations between [saudi Arabia] and any other country, we will not allow that country’s citizens into the kingdom,” Melhem told Saudi’s Al-Watan newspaper. “[Diplomatic relations] also apply to transit passengers… in case the plane is delayed, the passenger will have to enter the country; and at that point, it would be very difficult to let him into [saudi] if there are no diplomatic relations.” Earlier this week, New York Public Advocate Bill de Blasio condemned the Saudi airline’s decision not to allow Israelis on board and said that it was “racial discrimination.” He warned that he would work to ensure the Saudi airlines does not land in American airports.
  14. Perhaps a senior management who is close to MASEU wants to grab the CEO position since AJ's contract is due in September.
  15. Radzi, MAS engineers up to lead engineers are graded staff. Supts or controllers are executives. Bear in mind MASEU and MESA are unions affliated to MTUC. But what surprised me is that the executive secretary of MASEU was once a manager in HR. He retired last year.
  16. Qantas' senior executives face scrutiny http://www.theage.com.au/business/aviation/qantas-senior-executives-face-scrutiny-20130708-2pmat.html
  17. What is MAS direction? Internationally, MAS is far behind Singapore, Emirates, Etihad and Cathay. Even Garuda is ahead of MAS now. Domestically, not only MAS has to compete with Air Asia but now with Malindo.
  18. Why not the pilots also since most of the senior pilots usually put on weights
  19. I was made to understand that the main reason for the KLIA2 is due to nil line of sight from the current tower for aircrafts ground movements, other reasons also valid
  20. (CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out of that plane -- something that didn't happen in the official theory," Tom Stalcup told CNN's New Day. All 230 people aboard TWA 800 died when the plane, headed for Paris, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Scores of witnesses observed a streak of light and a fireball, giving early rise to suspicions that the terrorists had struck the plane with a rocket. Investigators concluded the streak was likely burning fuel streaming from the plane's wing tank. The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the explosion was caused by an electrical short circuit, most likely originating in a fuel gauge line, which found its way into the center wing fuel tank, where it detonated fuel vapors and caused the B-747 to fall in pieces into the waters off Long Island. What caused TWA Flight 800 to crash? Photos: TWA Flight 800 'TWA Flight 800' doc presents new proof But some people have come forward, "all saying the same thing: that there was an external force -- not from the center wing tank, there's no evidence of that -- but there is evidence of an external explosion that brought down that plane," Stalcup said. He cited "corroborating information from the radar data" and complained that "not one single eyewitness was allowed to testify -- that's unheard of." "The family members need to know what happened to their loved ones," he said. Asked why such information might have been suppressed, Stalcup said, "That's a question that should be answered when this investigation gets reopened." Possibility of a review of new information The NTSB acknowledged receipt Wednesday of the filmmakers' petition -- signed by former investigators -- requesting that the investigation be reopened. "As required by NTSB regulation, a petition for reconsideration of Board findings or a probable cause determination must be based on the discovery of new evidence or on a showing that the Board's findings are erroneous," said board spokeswoman Kelly Nantel. What really happened "We assign petition responses to the relevant modal office for drafting. The NTSB's Office of Aviation Safety will assign staff, to the maximum extent practicable, who did not work on the original investigation to carefully prepare a response. The response will be presented to the full Board for their consideration and vote." The board's investigation of TWA 800 lasted four years and "remains one of the NTSB's most extensive investigations," Nantel said. Investigators "spent an enormous amount of time reviewing, documenting and analyzing facts and data and held a five-day public hearing to gather additional facts before determining the probable cause of the accident," she said. But she left open the possibility the case will be reopened. "While the NTSB rarely re-investigates issues that have already been examined, our investigations are never closed, and we can review any new information not previously considered by board," she said. One TWA 800 family member reacted to the news of the documentary with skepticism. "Some of the people involved in this group have been involved in Internet conspiracy theories for the last 15 years," said Joe Lychner, whose wife, Pam, and two daughters, Shannon, 10, and Katie, 8, died in the incident. "So far as I can tell, this is just a rehash of what's been out on the Internet," he said. "If they have no new information and this is just trumped-up stuff that's been out there forever, yes, it is hurtful," Lychner said. "Why go through this again. Conversely, if they do have new information and it's provable, it's a game changer. I will watch this thing with a very critical eye, knowing what I know." John Goglia, a member of the five-person NTSB during the investigation, said he "took offense" at the filmmakers' suggestion that board members ignored evidence. "I would never be part of any coverup -- period," he told CNN. "This accident, this report, over 50,000 pages, if you take and just look at certain pieces of it, you can move the cause of this accident any way you want. You can take just the radar; you can say it was a missile. You have to take all of the pieces and look at them as a whole. "The sequencing report that told how the airplane fell apart, none of it supports a missile -- none of it. When you look at the physical evidence inside the tank, it's clear that there was an explosion inside the tank. If the top of the tank goes up and the bottom of the tank goes down, and the forward side goes forward and the back of the tank goes back, that tells you that the blast was inside the tank -- not outside." He said that no holes were found in the tank that would indicate something had penetrated it. But the documentary asserts that a missile may have exploded adjacent to the plane. Read: Can airlines be ranked for safety? Critics challenge government investigation Skeptics have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces. They include Hank Hughes, who served as a senior accident investigator with the NTSB and helped reconstruct the aircraft. Others include Bob Young, a TWA investigator who participated in the investigation, and Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association. "These investigators were not allowed to speak to the public or refute any comments made by their superiors and/or NTSB and FBI officials about their work at the time of the official investigation," a news release announcing the documentary said. "They waited until after retirement to reveal how the official conclusion by the (NTSB) was falsified and lay out their case." James Kalstrom, who headed the FBI's investigation into the explosion, dismissed suggestions that investigators concealed information and were not receptive to clues. "If they felt that way back then, they could have come to me," Kalstrom said. "I was someone desiring to get to the bottom of this, believe me. And I had a reputation for not, you know, for not pussyfooting around. Yet it seems like they've comfortably waited until they have their pensions before they became whistle-blowers. So I think it's a bunch of bullcrap." The documentary, "TWA Flight 800," will premiere July 17, the 17th anniversary of the crash. Read: What caused engine to fail on one of world's largest planes? Stalcup is co-founder of the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization and has been a longtime and passionate critic of the official investigation. Suspicions that criminals or terrorists were behind the TWA 800 explosion are not new. The FBI conducted a parallel investigation, but concluded that the incident was not a crime or terrorist attack. The NTSB said Tuesday that it was aware of the pending release of the documentary, which will air on EPIX TV network, and of the producers' intent to file a petition to reopen the investigation. The documentarians said they have a "trifecta of elements" that will "prove that the officially proposed fuel-air explosion did not cause the crash." That trifecta includes forensic evidence, firsthand sources and corroborating witnesses, and the new statements from retired investigators. The evidence proves that "one or more ordnance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash," the producers said. But it does not identify or speculate on the source of the ordnance explosions.
  21. Have any of you heard (or flown) on MAS domestic or ASEAN routes with Chartered Cabin crew (exMAXS cabin crew or flying mothers). I was made to understand that it had happened on a few flights
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