Trivia 2017 (miscellaneous news)

[Charlie Roy]

http://www.independent.ie/business/wow- ... 89125.html

WOW air considering a non-Icelandic base. 3 airports under consideration. Dublin is one of them.

[Bapt']

Very rare to see that

[sn26567]

How many pax on that flight?

More seriously: Positioning? Return to base after diversion? What else?

[luchtzak]

A video of a security camera has captured a S7 Airlines Airbus A320 having difficulties on a very icy taxiway.

The pirouette was caught on camera back in December last year but only recently gone viral on social media. The S7 Airlines aircraft nearly hit its company Airbus A320 on the right-hand side. Luckily nobody got injured. How the flight from Bejing to Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo reached its final parking position or gate is unknown.

S7 Airlines Airbus A320 makes a nice pirouette at icy Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo airport - Luchtzak.be

[galaxy]

A video of a security camera has captured a S7 Airlines Airbus A320 having difficulties on a very icy taxiway.

Very clever of the pilot to stop the plane with the reverse thrust.

[Passenger]

Last week, we had this story:

PH-BFL, a KLM 747-400, is going for triple gold: the longiest flight to nowhere in 2017, the longest delay of 2017 and the most reports on The Aviation Herald in one month.
The flight to nowhere happened on 16th Jan 2017, when KL-565 from Amsterdam to Nairobi made a U-turn southwest of Cairo, thus making it an 8 hour journey AMS-AMS. The reason was that "something on the wing was discovered to be loose".
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3a0a2d&opt=0
The longest delay attempt happened on 20th January, when KL-766 from Willemstad/Curaçao had a bird strike whilst climbing out of CUR. KL-766 returned to AMS after two days, with a delay of 52 hours (KL-766 was flown by replacement aircraft PH-BFB). PH-BFL remained at CUR till 26th Jan, when it repositionned to AMS as KLM-9866.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a3cf352&opt=0
The other report on AvHerald happened on 15th Jan 2017: "...PH-BFL performing flight KL-714 (dep Jan 14th) from Paramaribo (Suriname) to Amsterdam with 428 people on board, was descending towards Amsterdam when the crew received a cargo hold smoke indication, declared emergency and instructed emergency services to not open any doors. The crew advised they would vacate the runway and taxi to a remote stand... Emergency services did not find any trace of fire, heat or smoke..."
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a38635e&opt=0

Update 29th January: this 747-400 operated Saturday's KL-565 AMS-NBO Amsterdam-Nairobi quite normal, with only 20 minutes delay upon arrival: 19h50 -> 20h12 (local NBO time). But return flight KL-566 NBO-AMS with expected departure NBO at 23h59 (local NBO time) and arrival in AMS at 06h30 (local AMS time) is cancelled.
PH-BFL thus seems to be AOG at NBO Nairobi. Source: FR24 and KLM.com:
http://www.klm.com/travel/nl_nl/prepare ... /index.htm
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... l/#c4c38a9

Airfleets.net:
http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-25356.htm

[luchtzak]

Passenger bitten by a centipede, flight delayed: https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/st ... le-pattes/

[jan_olieslagers]

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What I find rather more questionable: why was the plane taxiing under its own power in such conditions? Surely they must have tractors in Siberia?

[sn26567]

A Saudi Prince bought tickets for his 80 falcons... (via Jason Rabinovitz and @reddit)

[quixoticguide]

Camels in the IL76

[sn26567]

A Saudi Prince bought tickets for his 80 falcons... (via Jason Rabinovitz and @reddit)

Lufthansa Technik has developed a system to enable falcon owners to take their bird on board:

https://www.lufthansa-technik.com/falcon-master

[Passenger]

Qantas A380 Safety video 2017:

[luchtzak]

Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived at BUD early in the afternoon, coming to another Hungarian-Russian summit

[Passenger]

A Dutch 89-year old male passenger passed out on a Qatar flight from Doha to Phuket. Upon arrival he was transported to a hospital in Phuket, but all help came too late. RIP.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/2755 ... ket__.html

[sn26567]

It looks like some people had a bumpy ride on the KLM flight to Toulouse (and the descent was not at all decent ):

[sn26567]

Russian president Vladimir Putin arrived at BUD early in the afternoon, coming to another Hungarian-Russian summit

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It was one of the three IL-96 aircraft coming from three different airports, and nobody knew in which aircraft Putin was, for security reasons...

In the USS, everyone knows the President is in a single Air Force One

[Passenger]

It looks like some people had a bumpy ride on the KLM flight to Toulouse (and the descent was not at all decent.

It seems that this Easyjet Berlin-Bordeaux also had a weather problem at Bordeaux (G-EZDY A319-100):

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... y/#c5a00dd

[sn26567]

KLM resumed flights to London City this morning

[Passenger]

United tv commercial for its new cheap "includes nothing fare", edited by Ellen DeGeneres:

[sn26567]

Passenger dies on board aircraft flying from Yekaterinburg to Tbilisi

A passenger died on board the Airbus flying en route Yekaterinburg, Russia - Tbilisi, Georgia, a source in the emergency services informed Interfax.

“The Ural Airlines’ A-320 airplane was flying en route Yekaterinburg – Tbilisi. When this plane was flying over Russia’s Dagestanone of the passengers became ill, and he quickly died. The crew of the plane tried to render medical aid to the man, but it was not successful”, the source said.

The Airline reported that the plane landed in Tbilisi. The body of the deceased was handed over to forensic doctors.

Source: Russian Aviation