Compressor stall. Inexperienced FO shuts down the wrong engine. They then mishandle the other one somehow. Crash.
Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
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I'm not convinced there is really any important news.
There's a spectacularly untimely take...
For most of the world, war between two countries in the middle east doesn't really have any direct impact, right? Liek, if I didn't know about it, nothing would change for me.
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Oddly they concatenate his names just as it appears in the passenger manifest (which airlines often do). But that’s not his name.
What do you mean that's not his name?
His name is Vishwash Kumar Ramesh. But, like an odd game of telephone or something, many news sites are displaying his name as Vishwashkumar Ramesh. And it seems the error is due to the passenger manifest. Airlines often combine first and middle names. It’s odd for news sites to not notice the error. Especially when also naming the brother who has a similarly-constructed name (Nayan Kumar Ramesh and also the deceased brother/passenger Ajay Kumar Ramesh). It’s probably due to western unfamiliarity of the Indian name. (They wouldn’t make the error with a Davidwilliam).
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#614CCTV capture of complete takeoff: https://x.com/ShivAroor/status/1933165937399648447
Is it normal to have human operators pointing the camera around like that? It almost look like they expected something to happen.
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Yeah, the deep irony of the GP comment is that, had all of these supposedly knowledgable people just read the original report from the WHO (~early 2020), they'd have realized many things about the virus (such as the extremely skewed age distribution of the seriously ill) that would have greatly mitigated the overall panic. It literally took years for the chattering class in medicine to understand basic information th…
A million Americans did die of it, the lost QALYs was... a lot. A lot of people died who had more than a decade, actuarially. That's a big deal. But it doesn't matter for what I'm saying: paying too much attention to the news about a weird new virus from China would have clued a person in that something big might be coming, on whatever dimension you care to measure it.
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Re: Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
#616Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a spectacularly untimely take...
For most of the world, war between two countries in the middle east doesn't really have any direct impact, right? Liek, if I didn't know about it, nothing would change for me.
I suppose I don't know. Does your economy use much oil?
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#617Earlier quoted context omitted.
For most of the world, war between two countries in the middle east doesn't really have any direct impact, right? Liek, if I didn't know about it, nothing would change for me.
I suppose I don't know. Does your economy use much oil?
Let's say the price of petrol goes up for me. Does it matter if I know why?
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I think WSJ is a good complement to the Economist. They have good, unsensationalized coverage of the facts. I ignore their opinion columns as they don't seem very serious.
This was mostly true 20 years ago. This has not been the case for many years at this point. WSJ is now the print version of Fox News.
That hasn't been my experience at all outside the opinion section, which is precisely what you described.
The main section feels pretty anti Trump, actually. Not by choice but reality has an anti Trump bias ;)
They are also quite good at labeling their opinion sections clearly, which I think a lot of other papers aren't doing. Their news section is basically Reuter's.
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It depends on the situation. Redundancy and additional power increase margins. More for the sake of more isn't necessary helping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ewa7R20MA Lufthansa 747-8 after engine failure: *We're not an emergency.* It depends on what is causing the failure and how situation evolves. Let us take British Airways Flight 009 as example, the wiki says that all engines failed, all engines were restar…
> Emirates needs the huge capacities of the A380. I think it's more that they needed the prestige of having the biggest planes, offering a whole bedroom with shower etc. It goes well with their ultra luxury image. If it's just about seats that can fly smaller ones with the benefit that they can operate more frequently and thus attract more transit passengers looking for a good connection. That's their main market. An…
That airports are usually not an effective destination for the B747/A380.
Connect major hubs like FRA with JFK and it makes sense. You need capacity, it is a long route and slots are rare and expensive. And for Emirates the hub concept is crucial.
But yes. The luxury thing is also part of their show. But it fills the plane ;)
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I suppose I don't know. Does your economy use much oil?
Let's say the price of petrol goes up for me. Does it matter if I know why?
I feel like it can matter a lot to be able to make a reasonably reliable prediction about whether it's likely to go up or down tomorrow and by about how much, and thus whether and when to act on the potential need to ensure some sort of access to supply.
For me, that largely entails just not doing anything. I do own a car but rarely use it since my neighborhood is very walkable, and the tank is usually close to full. Even my lawn tools are electric. But if I relied on gasoline for a commute (for instance) then being able to make good guesses about getting hold of it is advantageous, in a way that is fungible and easily shared.