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Cheers all, I am not sure if this year is in the cards, however we will be going at some point, hell or highwater

Yikes. We had a Navajo go down here in Vancouver years ago from Wake turb. Trailing a 767 I believe. Cargo ops, both crew dead. Nothing to take lightly. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2011/05/27/tsb-2009-plane-crash-in-richmond-caused-by-wake-turbulence/

That was going to be my next question... why a stall test after TKS maintenance... and what happens if the stall test goes wrong.. interesting.

RIP. That seems wild that the airplane went into such an aggravated spin that they could not recover from 20k feet? I have no experience with Biz jets, I look forward to hearing from those that do.

I work at a major airport. I can tell you all the ideological infiltration (mandatory pro nouns in email signatures, acknowledging the land we are on before every meeting, etc, etc) has certainly distracted from the core business of running an airport. Regardless of your beliefs or where you lie...

Yeah, just saying I have heard (not here) people angry with the crew for not pulling that CVR breaker... I just think they get a bit of a pass for forgetting that one in this case. I was shocked to see the FA walking around during what appears to be flight when the plug was out. Juan at the...

TBH, in this one I would give the crew a pass. It sounds like the cockpit door had blown open during the decompression, and that the cockpit in general was a bit of a mess of papers... not to mention the crew probably wanted to get off the airplane/debrief/hit the bar... Whatever... not to point...

That is incredible. That center 4 bolt connection is gone... looks to be sheared... and where are the other bolts? Wow.

No blame laid here, and I am in the camp that the Dash was lined up ready to go... would the A350 pilot still be queried (even though I can only imagine how difficult it is to see) that the runway was clear? I wonder though if the outcome could have been avoided had the 350 seen the dash, or...

The video of the impact is very dramatic as would be expected. The Dash was on a taxiway intersecting the runway as the Airbus was rolling out. Tough to see clearly, but I would imagine based on the incident that the Dash did incur onto the runway as the Airbus does not look to go off the runway...

I fly VATSIM pretty often. Certainly majority is large jets flying IFR... but I like to fly VFR and they handle it pretty decently. But don't expect them to have a good understanding of VFR procedures to be honest.

I am sure he will be out quick, but still... nice to see he will actually see the inside of a prison... as white collar as I am sure it will be. I assume lifelong ban from flying as well?

What a world we live in.

so if original sin exists within the human, and the AI is bound by the human mind, are you saying AI has original sin too!!!???

More info, apparently the aircraft rolled onto its side when hit. They then recovered but had no electrical power or instrumentation... and continued VFR (on a very stormy IMC day) to their destination! This is as per a passenger, so take it with a grain of salt.

When I am flying in a whirly bird, I don't want any parts flying off at any altitude lol

Makes sense. Thanks for the insight. Agreed, Helijet is great and they handled it well!

That's what I was wondering... if they knew they had an issue. Not questioning how they handled it, but there would have been some fields on some of the islands below they could have landed in had they thought they had a major issue. Are the blades designed to shear two to maintain balance...

What a robust aircraft. I have had the opportunity to be a pax in one a few times. I am curious, would the helicopter have flown alot differently after the blades sheared off? I assume some added vibration?

So this happened today in my local airspace... its a typical stormy day, no other lightning in the area. They lost 2 of 4 tail rotor blades over the ocean at 4200ft... and continued on to the destination and landed safely. Wow...