February | 2023 | Learmount.com
1 post published by David Learmount during February 2023| Learmount.com
1 post published by David Learmount during February 2023| Learmount.com
There are those who attribute Boeing’s ongoing quality control scandals to its decision to move its HQ out of its Seattle engineering base to Chicago in 2001. Others blame the 1997 merger wit…| Learmount.com
After nearly two years of grounding, Boeing’s 737 Max series has been cleared by the US Federal Aviation Administration to carry fare-paying passengers once again. This is the first step in a redem…| Learmount.com
1 post published by David Learmount during September 2025| Learmount.com
It hasn’t surprised anyone in the industry to hear rumours – via the pages of the Wall Street Journal – that Boeing is working on the design of a new narrowbody jet, because it…| Learmount.com
Learmount.com’s series on awful airline experiences today looks at a European carrier’s attempt to persuade booked passengers that their trips will not be as bad as the online reviews. Holidaying passengers flying Vueling are promised that they can start winding down – or up – as soon as they’re airborne. Here’s the just-announced pan-Europe mix … Continue reading “Instagrammable cocktails” solution to bad Vueling pax reviews| Learmount.com
An official incident report has confirmed that a Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Seville, Spain on 17 February last year flew for 10min without any pilot supervision because the copilot, alone on the flight deck at the time, suffered a “sudden and severe incapacitation” which was defined in the report as a … Continue reading Ladies and gentlemen, your pilot is unconscious| Learmount.com
“The ancient infrastructure is buckling,” says the President of the USA, Donald J Trump. His subject is the state of America’s air traffic control (ATC) services, but he does have a solution: “We’d like to give out one big, beautiful contract, where they are responsible for everything from digging ditches to the most-complicated stuff”. Trump … Continue reading Trump rides to the rescue of US ATC| Learmount.com
Activity in Washington DC’s urban airspace is now being constrained – just a little – by the Federal Aviation Administration following its discovery that the risk of collisions at or near airports across the whole USA is higher than the Agency had appreciated. This fact emerged during the inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board … Continue reading Washington DC airspace will stay risky| Learmount.com
Ryanair has been identified in the UK Consumers Association publication “Which?” as the air carrier against which airline awfulness is benchmarked, and it has found that – by one particular measure, British Airways is even worse. Airlines examined in this survey are among those offering services to or from British airports, and Which? says it … Continue reading Awful Airlines, says Which?| Learmount.com
How aviation works - in the cockpit, the cabin, the hangar, and the air traffic control centre| Learmount.com
The Nepal authorities have released information from the crashed aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) which shows that both propellers feathered – and the engines stopped delivering po…| Learmount.com
The movement of two small switches on the aft end of the flight deck centre console, reachable easily by both pilots, appears to hold the key to what happened to the Air India Boeing 787-8 that cra…| Learmount.com
Air India flight 171 crashed immediately after take-off from Ahmedabad on 12 June, and today, two weeks later, with no news about causes, the system is beginning to leak. This is what happens natur…| Learmount.com
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued orders for “enhanced checks” to be carried out on Boeing 787s powered by GEnx turbofans registered in the country. …| Learmount.com
Boeing’s long-range widebody 787 has been in service since 2013, and had some worrying technical problems in early service. Those, however, were corrected and it had been crash-free until now…| Learmount.com
“Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings” (Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr RCAF) There are probably millions of people aged in t…| Learmount.com
