It wasn't even a service bulletin. It was a special airworthiness information bulletin. Basically saying that it might be a good idea to operate the switches to verify they operate and lock in position like the thousand other locking switches any airline pilot or AME would have actuated on a daily b...

Yes, we call the knobs "fuel control switches". I believe the metal side guards were in place since the prototype 767. The guards they added later I believe are the plastic covers over the EEC switches that used to be below the fuel control switches like in the photo above. I believe you are correc...

Thanks for that explanation. I was quite curious as to why one would switch to
"manual control".

Given that it was the fuel cutoff knobs that were inadvertently moved, I assumed any new guards would be for them, not the EEC PBAs. (Talking about the 767 ASN report)

It looks like you are correct, GyvAir. Though the 787 doesn't seem to have those switches there. 246246.jpeg I was actually just referring to the fuel cutoff switchs, their being gated and having the metal guards either side of them. I didn't find a photo clear enough to read what the PBAs ahead of...

I believe the mistake theory is possible, for one switch. After you flipped the first one to cutoff you would realize what you just did. Not sure I'd agree - the normal sequence is one off then the other one off. This happened on a 767 at United. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/147073 Signifi...

Employment background may not be a reason for banning a poster, but a long track record of trolling the forum could be. It wouldn't be the first time a poster was banned from here for nonsensical posting. It wouldn't be the first time pdw got a time out for it.

Thank goodness someone came along to explain all the humour out of the joke!

An hour had gone by since the preflight. Doing a last look walk around should be instinctual even if not required by policy.

word-soup

I calculate a station pressure for the start of every accident sequence involving similar types of HWC oscillation as described (ie tsb data given yesterday) and sure enough here at 153agl is 1008hPa again, as i have found over time is quite reliably the case in like narratives of the past. Still h...

Was the berm involved in this Halifax accident ever modified?
I suspect that without the dramatic video of the Jeju accident, there would be a lot less talk of the berm itself.

https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-rep ... h0004.html

airbus uses a "Ground Speed Mini" function. https://www.smartcockpit.com/docs/A320-Ground_Speed_Mini_Function.pdf Since this took place after landing the wind does not appear to be a factor in the tailstrike. If the mini function had 8kts tailwind example for 2, instead of the 50kts hdwnd, and “tow...

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I have this strange urge to take this sequence of words: "An even drag both wheels, but no swerving tendency at that speed. Slowing up adds weight to both main wheels, but probably, sometimes, unevenly. One carves in muddy! steers it abruptly! even letting go of braking ON THAT DIGGING SIDE ... esp ...

I've heard stories of this sort of thing forever. Documented stories? Not so many. Just a story: https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/tiedown-tales/ Couple college tries: https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/saf-sec-sur/2/cadors-screaq/rd.aspx?occdtefrom%3d%26occdteto%3d2020-10-07%26srchfldcd%3d6%26txt%3dtie%2bd...

lownslow wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:50 am

challenger_nami wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:13 pm Student Pilot Crashes the Cessna on touchdown.

Technically all crashes are on touchdown.

These guys might argue that, technically:

viewtopic.php?f=118&t=141175

Not sure what's been in the news in Pakistan this summer, but this headline might give you an idea how things are going here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-ca ... -1.5572596

Best of luck on your search.

Did you accidentally hit "submit" before including any of the who, what, where or whens?

I’m sure they’re nice if you’re bucking rivets all day in a factory where the fuselage or wing or whatever is still wide open and free of all those bothersome system components that get in the road of every last rivet you need to buck when performing a typical in service repair. If you’re a general ...

Posting just for the spectacle of it.

https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/tha ... 57.article

Given the staggering amount of thought, time and effort that went into this endeavor, I’m not sure it even falls into the general Darwin Awards category. This feels like a whole other level, well beyond the usual spur of the moment “Watch this!” Darwinian elimination sort of actions we often read ab...

Another view:
https://avas.mv/en/78655


I wonder how much more of the airframe is bent or broken. Never seen one break just like that before.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6578962/vanc ... t-damaged/

I presume the Beaver wing was removed after tangling with the Otter, not somehow sheared clean off?