zzrmark

Wasn't that issue spotted a month or two ago, with carriers urged by Boeing to carry out checks in the affected area at the soonest possible moment?

scrubbedexpat091

Issue was found late September, with FAA issuing a directive for inspections on October 3. The time frame for inspections depends on how many cycles the aircraft had, those with 30,000 cycles or more needed to be inspected right away, those with less had more time to complete the inspection.

Of the 1,000 or so worldwide inspected so far, roughly 50 have been found with issues.

2 or so weeks ago, Boeing began repairs on the first aircraft, Boeing has set up a repair facility in California.

scrubbedexpat091

American Eagle (operated by Rrepublic Airlines) flight between Atlanta and NYC had flight control issue after departure, pilots reported they were close to stall and had issue lowering the pitch of the aircraft.

Luckily the flight was able to return and land safely, but listening to the ATC recording, you can hear in the pilots voices something was wrong.

https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea....175-diversion/

ATC recording, starts around 6:30 mark.

https://archive-server.liveatc.net/k...2019-0200Z.mp3

scrubbedexpat091

At Vancouver Today

civilservant

Trim runaway. Reminds me of Alaska all those years ago, they died because of a lack of grease on a jackscrew.

scrubbedexpat091

A bit of a rough landing for one flight in Chicago. No injuries reported.

https://abc11.com/video-airplane-fro...WwvoyGf5tRKW7S

caretaker

They'll be using Febreeze in that one.

audio

Landing looked okay but perhaps it was a bit too hot on the high speed turn off bearing in mind the conditions

MidAtlantic

My thoughts exactly.

audio

If not, weather 360/17 max 24 kts, braking action medium/poor a bit tight on R/W 10 at ORD I would have thought.

civilservant

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/q...top/index.html

Really interesting and comprehensive write up of one of the research flights for 'Project Sunrise' being conducted by Qantas.

The double sunrise is something I would want to experience. The 19 hours on a plane without a break, not so much.

scrubbedexpat142

Quote from a spokesman - "passengers are being monitored to assess the impact"

Might want to rephrase that!

BuckinghamshireBoy

That is a great read.

On seeing the cockpit photo, my first thought was "No, no, face front FFS, you're about to hit a building!"

I had a colleague who was likely on a run up to that test, they pitted once (somewhere in ME I think) then onwards, around 23 hours on board, he said it knocked him sideways for around 48 hours afterwards.

I have, but that was on a beach about 60km north of Cairns, so doesn't really count here.

Giantaxe

Back in the 80's I flew on Qantas Melbourne -> Sydney -> Singapore -> Bahrain -> LHR, 27 hours in total. Even though I could deplane at each of those stops, I think I'd take 19 hours over that. I got to LHR at 6am, took a taxi to work and then totally crashed when I got home. I couldn't even work out what hemisphere I was in.

scrubbedexpat091

I like flying and all, but unless the main cabin had sufficient leg room to be comfortable, no way I would do 19 hours non-stop anywhere, now if I could afford first class, no problem, can be pretty comfortable in first, sleep, etc but coach that long sounds horrid.... I do okay until around 12 hour mark then I am ready to get off the plane.