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Sai wrote: 18 Jun 2017, 16:25 Question: Will the 737 MAX be featured with the ("new") green exit sign aka 'running man' like on B787 or the red EXIT letter sign?

It will be the classic red EXIT letter sign

Automated evacuation commands should be a given on a 200 million USD jet.
Sometimes pax are asleep and they shouldn't have to figure out by themselves that something happened and that people are evacuating the aicraft after seeing the last people run to the exits.
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Automated evacuation commands should be a given on a 200 million USD jet.
Sometimes pax are asleep and they shouldn't have to figure out by themselves that something happened and that people are evacuating the aicraft after seeing the last people run to the exits.
In English and local languages ...

hallo,

Elke stoel (zowel comfort als eco) in JNL heeft zijn eigen IFE scherm.

grtz

A319: Heeft één overwing exit

A320: Heeft twee overwing exits

Klopt niet altijd: de A319's van bv. EasyJet en GermanWings hebben 2 overwing exits. Vb: http://www.airliners.net/photo/EasyJet-Airline/Airbus-A319-111/1415779/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Germanwings/Airbus-A319-132/1414868/L ...

Would love to see a pic from the other side...

Also, I see they removed the fan for some reason... Curious why that would be...

A GE90, as a GenX, is too big to be transported in 1 piece in most of the cargo A/C so they can remove and transport fan part and core part separately. Hence the ...

one Engineering and Maintenance division will do maintenance for all aircraft;

Monarch is responsible for the maintenance in the UK, Finnair for TUIFly Nordic, AFKLM for Corsair, not sure about TUIfly in Germany?

Thomson have their own maintenance department. Monarch has nothing to do with ...

according to: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetairfly their fleet will be expanded in 2015 with an e-190, 2 737-800 and 1 737-700?
Are these brand new aircraft from the factory or 'older' ones transferred by one of the other airlines in the TUI Group or leasings?

the E190 is factory new, the 737 ...

Companies prefer short flights for training because it accelerates the training and pilots can be "released" from flying with instructors a lot quicker in time. Spending 7 hours in cruise for line training is a waste of time, especially if you have 13 other pilots waiting to do the same thing when ...

the wheel well of an A330 is not inspected every flight, not even every day. before at Sabena & SN we did it during weekly inspections. the wheel well of the A330 has 'a nice spot' for stow aways where on the A340 there is the center gear. you can't see if anybody is lying there. So there is nothing ...

How do you forget such a thing? On all flights I've ever been on, this action is explicitly requested and confirmed to have been performed.

also a white 'slide' indicator will come on at the door when the slide is not disarmed. if you don't notice this, you are getting blind. opening the door ...

for boeing the prices are at this link

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/prices/index.html

for airbus you have to scroll down until you find pricelist document at this link

http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/corpo ... documents/

prices from other companies are more difficult to find

for the moment OO-VAC for both flights

the sky interiour is very overrated. nothing special with it at all. you can only have white, which hurts your eyes, blue and kind of 'sunrise/sunset' orange.

the bins on the other hand are bigger and they take less space in the cabin. so thats a real improvement!

Summary in English :

A Boeing 737-400 of Turkish Airlines crashed close to the Polderbaan.
135 passengers aboard.
Seems to be a major crash.
All traffic on Schiphol is on hold.
No further details.
Aircraft broken in 3 pieces ; no fire.
Emergency services are on the spot.
No news yet on casualties ...