Air India goes off runway...after fuel emergency

[ChasenSFO]

Never gonna be the Rajasthani Sullenberger if you fly the centerline, kid.

 

[mikecweb]

The tree was there first, seniority rules.

Now the question...why was the A320 270 feet off center line...halfway down the runway...

sugar.....clearly.

 

[turbomax97]

Never gonna be the Rajasthani Sullenberger if you fly the centerline, kid.

Maharaja Sullenberger son!

 

[ChasenSFO]

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/i...afety-ranking-477793?pfrom=home-lateststories

New Delhi: US aviation authorities have downgraded India's safety ranking in a "disappointing" and "surprising" move that will hit air links between the countries, India's aviation minister said on Friday.

The US Federal Aviation Administration downgraded India after conducting an audit last year of India's aviation regulator that found 31 areas of concern, a statement said.

The areas of concern include better recruitment and training of professional and technical staff for India's aviation regulator, responsible for the safety of the country's airlines, the statement.

Go figure. But India is none the less shocked, you hear me, SHOCKED.

FAA report here.

 

[DhruvK]

Make that 4 of us.

In at 5.

 

[jwp_145]

http://www.ntd.tv/en/news/world/asi...gency-landing-damages-its-wing-and-tires.html

Hmm...crew notices the plane is critical on fuel, diverts, pops tires on landing, rips off 1/4 of the wing.

Can't wait to read the whole story on this one...

My money is on Air India demanding compensation from Boeing. They do for everything else under the sun.

 

[mikecweb]

My money is on Air India demanding compensation from Boeing. They do for everything else under the sun.

For an incident involving an airbus?

 

[Shiftace]

Make that 4 of us.

# 5 checking in....

 

[DhruvK]

# 5 checking in....

I already claimed the 5-hole. You're 6.

 

[Shiftace]

I already claimed the 5-hole. You're 6.

FINE! I'll take 6.

Aren't you up in KBJI?

If in KDTL, give me a shout.

 

[Kingairer]

Incredible, India

 

[jwp_145]

For an incident involving an airbus?

It was a joke, insinuating that for basically any event under the sun Air India is publicly demanding ore compensation from Boeing concerning the 787.

 

[killbilly]

Hey, is that a Just C—oh, wait, nevermind. *Innocent*

But yeah, that's -very- common in the software engineering world, as well. I suspect it's cultural.

Director> "What's the progress on the release?"
Engineering> "My team is blocked by SVCS-4207. We are waiting on Operations to do the needful."
Systems> "Wait, what? We replied to that ticket a week ago. You're not blocked. Your commits have been failing because Ritesh has a lock on one file that he needs to release. You manage your own locks, and commits to the other tree is completely unaffected. What have you been doing for the past two weeks??"
Engineering> "My team was blocked by this problem and SVCS-4292, and we could not work."
Systems> "SVCS-4292 was closed because we do not allow rsh without an ssh wrapper. We told you that from the start..."
Engineering> "We are blocked without rsh, and we cannot meet our deadline because of Systems team."
Systems> "We provided you an ssh wrapper—all you have to do is add your private key when you login."
Engineering> "No, it does not work. We are blocked."
Systems> "...!"

~Fox
[NB. Not a real conversation, but near enough as to make no nevermind!]

Jesus. We've worked with the same software dev teams.

If you work in some Sales Engineers saying, "Jesus H. Christ - we gave you a spec, a PRD and we even loaded up a case in Jira for you. Do NOT make me go back and explain this to the account rep without heavy weapons."

 

[Pichettet1]

At least they found the plane.