Trivia 2017 (miscellaneous news)

[convair]

The winner of Wimbledon 2017:

But most probably no VoecklAir in the Tour de France.

[sn26567]

Longest delay ever? According to FR24, a Primera Air flight (6F 705) from Stockholm to Alicante took off with a 38-hour delay. The flight was scheduled to depart on Sunday 07:50 but departed on Monday 22:00 local time. Delay was caused by technical problems.

And Primera Air flight 6F 723 is "just" 25h delayed.... For the same reason?

[Treeper]

As well as 6F 719 22hrs late and 6F 701 5hrs...

[Passenger]

Virgin Atlantic kicks 11 year old UM passenger from flight:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07 ... ic-flight/

[luchtzak]

KV Oostende charters aircraft in its official club colours: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/danish- ... b-colours/

[nordikcam]

A Aigle Azur flight BOD ALG lands with 33 hours delay. A succession of incidents.
PS : I do not know how to translate "couac"

http://www.lalibre.be/light/insolite/un ... 263ef76cf6

[sn26567]

A Aigle Azur flight BOD ALG lands with 33 hours delay. A succession of incidents.
PS : I do not know how to translate "couac"

http://www.lalibre.be/light/insolite/un ... 263ef76cf6

€250 for everybody on the flight (in addition to hotel and meal costs). But good luck to get them! Apologies are not enough!

[luchtzak]

Hmmm ... albeit spectacular this is not safe!

[Boeing767copilot]

KV Oostende charters aircraft in its official club colours: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/danish- ... b-colours/

Some problems with the Danish MD83, still delayed

[luchtzak]

KV Oostende charters aircraft in its official club colours: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/danish- ... b-colours/

Some problems with the Danish MD83, still delayed

How is the situation now ?

[ostair]

KV Oostende charters aircraft in its official club colours: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/danish- ... b-colours/

Some problems with the Danish MD83, still delayed

How is the situation now ?

The aircraft left nearly 5 hrs late.
The players had a meal in the Belair restaurant.

DAT send a Saab LY-RUS from Billund with the parts needed to repair the problem. Something to do with a monitor.
There were no spare aircrafts at the moment.

Perhaps they should have hired a Thalys/TGV and took all their supporters(800) on the train, it would have been quicker and cheaper...

[sn26567]

Some problems with the Danish MD83, still delayed

How is the situation now ?

The aircraft left nearly 5 hrs late.

[Magiktrix]

A long journey from CDG to CPH
http://soirmag.lesoir.be/106681/article ... it-athenes

[Passenger]

An American Judge has ordered the FAA to investigate the consequences of the shrinking airline seats for the passengers' safety.

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-planes-idUSL1N1KJ1C5

[sn26567]

An American Judge has ordered the FAA to investigate the consequences of the shrinking airline seats for the passengers' safety.

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-planes-idUSL1N1KJ1C5

The EU should start a similar inquiry. Some airlines really squeeze passengers too much.

[convair]

An American Judge has ordered the FAA to investigate the consequences of the shrinking airline seats for the passengers' safety.

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-planes-idUSL1N1KJ1C5

The EU should start a similar inquiry. Some airlines really squeeze passengers too much.

Indeed, there should be a regulation on pitch and seat width (as is the case for the number of toilets on aircraft-just try to imagine what would be the situation if that rule didn't exist!!! ), so that airlines are prevented to squeeze ihe highest possible number of sardines in their planes in order to have better financial returns than the competition.

I' m generally not in favor of too much regulation, but from time to time, it is necessary to keep free enterprise on the right tracks.

[luchtzak]

Radioactive material transported on a flight between Egypt and Belgium (via Switzerland)

https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/in ... itzerland/

[flightlover]

Radioactive material transported on a flight between Egypt and Belgium (via Switzerland)

https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/in ... itzerland/

And how much radiation did the handlers get during loading/unloading? They get closer to the package than the minimum distance of 1m on which the calculation of radiation is done. The specialist where not happy to open it without extra protective measures, says enough, no?

[sn26567]

Radioactive material transported on a flight between Egypt and Belgium (via Switzerland)

The problem is not the transport of radioactive material, but the fact that it has been unsuitably packaged, without control of radioactive emissions after packaging.

[Matthias]

Not really aviation related but Brussels Airport tweeted this this morning:

Belgian sculptor #OlivierStrebelle, who created "Flight in mind" for #brusselsairport, passed away this weekend. Our heartfelt condolences. https://t.co/JVua7XglFT