General Aviation Thread

OldTex

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"....at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. ...............As per the EAFR, the Engine 1 fuel cutoff switch transitioned from CUTOFF to RUN at about 08:08:52 UTC. The APU Inlet Door began opening at about 08:08:54 UTC, consistent with the APU Auto Start logic. Thereafter at 08:08:56 UTC the Engine 2 fuel cutoff switch also transitions from CUTOFF to RUN. "
The EAFR data reports a difference of 1 second in the cutoff of fuel, whilst the reverse procedure takes 4 seconds. Also reported is the fact that the fuel switches have a lockout feature designed to avoid inadvertent operation of each of the switches. It may be that the actual switches were not changed from RUN to CUTOFF, but the EAFR recorded a glitch that the FADEC interpreted as the switches being set to CUTOFF. The 4 seconds recorded for the restoration of the fuel switches might be consistent with each switch actually being put to CUTOFF and then reset to RUN by the pilots to restart the engines.
This is just my own opinion as to a possible scenario, noting I have no experience in piloting an aircraft or the specifics of the 787 cockpit.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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"Shocking"....or could we expect this?
This video is about the disappearance of two A320s delivered to communist china around 2000. Those aircrafts were actually disassembled, and all parts copied and reverse engineered into the '100% indigenously designed and built' C919.
 

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
Why would a pilot cutoff and lie about it?
If you want to kill yourself, you just push the stick dont you?
And why would you then signal MAYDAY and try to restart the engines??
A "suicidal" pilot makes no sense!

Unless... he didnt want to expose himself...
If one of the pilots shut the fuel off, it was likely by mistake, followed by a CMA lie. As per my earlier post, if this is not the case and this cutoff event occurred on its own, it is a big problem for GE and Boeing.
 

Rob c

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Specially because if the last is the case, this means it will happen again. Like 737MAX's MCAS.
Looking at some of the U tube videos, it was said in some that the switches could be accidently move if a non mandatory air directive had not been implemented which provided a locking feature. It appears that Air India had not implemented it on all aircraft at this time. What is interesting is that the flight dater recorder shows that the switches were turned of and a few seconds later turned back on, but the photos' of the switches show them off. So were the switches turned back off by crash forces or is the data recorder wrong?
If the switches got turned off during the crash it shows that they could be turned off accidently.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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Let's start the day with a Boeing 767-400 video.
Video | Vlammen slaan uit motor van vliegtuig bij vertrek in Los Angeles

A Boeing 767-400 Delta Air Lines flight with flightnumber DL446 was forced to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday after its left engine caught fire shortly after takeoff.
Delta's Boeing 767 engine catches fire mid air soon after takeoff, makes emergency landing in LA - BusinessToday




In December 2024, the MAI-401 received an airworthiness certificate.

It is a nice looking aircraft, but not much information is given in the video. In this article we can read the amazing information that "One can get to the high-mountainous regions of the Republic of Dagestan on this airplane much faster than by car."
https://en.mai.ru/media/news/detail.php?ID=160093


Here below we get a little bit more information, but still it is unclear what kind of engines it uses. We only know these are two piston engines with fuel injection using RON 95 gasoline. If the MAI-401 uses imported engine, like Teledyne-Continental or Lycoming, then we still can not expect large quantities of serial production.
Dagestan plant receives certificate of airworthiness for aircraft of its own production





And here two videos of chinese passengers having some fun during flight.

 
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Sandhi Yudha

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On Saturday July 26 2025, American Airlines Flight 3023, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane carrying 173 passengers and six crew members on board, aborted takeoff in Denver after a suspected landing gear failure and a fire forced passengers to evacuate via emergency slides. All passengers and crew were evacuated with a few sustaining injuries.
At 0:37 the reporter says that "a tyre coming apart from the plane", personally i think it is a hubcap. I try to post an image of it, to explain.



The Hubcap you can find on Main Wheel nr.1 and 4. So probably it is blown off from the Main Wheel Assembly when it blew up.
Capture Hubcap.PNG
 
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Ananda

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This news just shown how sanctions can be circumvented even for Big Airliners. If Iran cam do it, certaintly Russia can do it also.


This asside on the Russian capabilities, perhaps more reasons why Russia put development of wide bodies airliners on lower priority. SSJ-100, Tu-214, IL-114 and MC-21 seems will be the focus, while I suspect they are going to maintain their 777, A330 and A350 and sourcing it through grey and black market.

Narrow bodies will be the backbones, and those come with priorities with local made parts. This will focus chances in market for those who doesn't or can't get Boeing and Airbus narrow bodies.
 

Sandhi Yudha

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It is actually remarkable that all major Iranian airlines don't operate Tu-204s and Il-96s, like Cubana de Aviacion and Air Koryo. Maybe Iranian airlines still have the budget to get Airbus/Boeing aircrafts and spareparts.
 
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