Trivia 2016 (miscellaneous news)

[Passenger]

Old style pushback of an Air Nostrum CRJ-900 (EC-JYA) at Rome Fiumicino:








Details:
http://www.ostiatv.it/fiumicino-aereo-s ... 70592.html

[Passenger]

Air New Zealand has a new safety video: Hollywood style this time:



I don't think it will become as famous as their Hobbit safety video:

[Passenger]

Drama in India: an Indian Air Force Antonov AN-32 with 29 people on board is missing over the Bay of Bengal.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 335306.cms


photo IndianAirForce.nic.in

[Homo Aeroportus]

Old style pushback of an Air Nostrum CRJ-900 (EC-JYA) at Rome Fiumicino:

Tsss. These Italians. Whether for talking or pushing they can't help but use their hands.

They should consider this type of back up.

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All-weather good traction, never on strike, environmentally-friendly (though maybe not so much on the methane "side").



H.A.

[sn26567]

The first members of the Belgian Olympic team left Brussels with destination Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Anyone knows their itinerary and the airlines used?

For the French and Dutch teams, it is easy: the flagship airline flies directly to Rio. But for Belgium?

[Passenger]

The first members of the Belgian Olympic team left Brussels with destination Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Anyone knows their itinerary and the airlines used?

For the French and Dutch teams, it is easy: the flagship airline flies directly to Rio. But for Belgium?

First leg was BRU-ZRH, Swiss LX-8787, A320-200 HB-IJB (09h55-11h15).

Very friendly check-in by Brussels Airlines was included.

[sn26567]

A large hot-air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire in flight this Saturday morning and crashed in Lockhart, Texas (30 miles South of Austin), the Federal Aviation Administration said.

There were no survivors.

[sn26567]

Amazon today unveiled the first cargo plane of a future fleet of 40 B767s.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/prime-a ... ir-livery/



Do you know that this Boeing 767-300ER was originally delivered to Sobelair as OO-SBY in 1994?

[Passenger]

Gate closed? This passenger has a solution:

[sean1982]

Gate closed? This passenger has a solution:

good example on how good they are following instructions

[Passenger]

good example on how good they are following instructions

I have put that airport and that airline on my personal blacklist because they can't maintain my safety.

[sean1982]

good example on how good they are following instructions

I have put that airport and that airline on my personal blacklist because they can't maintain my safety.

rofl, like it has ever been on your white list
(and what an airline has to do with securing an airport gate is beyond me )

[Passenger]

(and what an airline has to do with securing an airport gate is beyond me)

Staff from both the airline and the airport should keep the doors closed for unchecked passengers / keep the tarmac clean from unwanted persons. How to do that? Maybe a safety expert can tell us?

[Poiu]

(and what an airline has to do with securing an airport gate is beyond me)

Staff from both the airline and the airport should keep the doors closed for unchecked passengers / keep the tarmac clean from unwanted persons. How to do that? Maybe a safety expert can tell us?

It is the responsability of the handling agent, not the airline.
At most airports airline staff don't even have keys/codes/badges to open/close the doors.
(Off topic: your posts loose a lot of credibility because you can't control your hate against a certain airline)

[Passenger]

It is the responsability of the handling agent, not the airline.

We've heard this false argument before (from your very good friend Sean), in discussions about Ryanair failures. When confronted with passengers, a handling agent acts as representative of the airline.

[Poiu]

It is the responsability of the handling agent, not the airline.

We've heard this false argument before (from your very good friend Sean), in discussions about Ryanair failures. When confronted with passengers, a handling agent acts as representative of the airline.

:wave: :wave:

[Bralo20]

Do you know that this Boeing 767-300ER was originally delivered to Sobelair as OO-SBY in 1994?

Also interesting to know is that this plane wasn't ordered by Sobelair but by Ansett's leasing firm AWAS, Sobelair leased it from AWAS and thus it doesn't carry the Sabena customer code (29).

[sn26567]

Marseille Provence Airport in Marignane has been closed because of forest wildfires.

Commercial flights are being diverted to Montpellier and Lyon so firefighting planes can land and take-off easily.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/marseil ... est-fires/

[sn26567]

Fabian Cancellara, winner of the Olympic gold medal cycling time race, in the cockpit of his SWISS flight back home in Switzerland:

[sn26567]

Beijing? Shanghai? Tokyo?

Wrong! This is...

Milan Malpensa.

Globalisation?