JAL 787 on fire !!!! OMG WTF BBQ...

[Mike Oxlong]

From: Boeing
Re: Asiana
Subject: See?! Our planz is awesum!!!

[Coligny]

Dale Carnes, assistant deputy chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, said there is no industry standard for avoiding victims in an emergency. Three firefighters spotted the girl, but were too busy in the complex situation to take time to mark her so that trucks would avoid her, he said.

In other words... No time to give a fuck !? Them guys are hardcore...

[matsuki]

Dale Carnes, assistant deputy chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, said there is no industry standard for avoiding victims in an emergency. Three firefighters spotted the girl, but were too busy in the complex situation to take time to mark her so that trucks would avoid her, he said.

In other words... No time to give a fuck !? Them guys are hardcore...

Wouldn't it have made sense for someone to pull her to safety? Seems pretty negligent but then noone seems to know how she got there in the first place and they are leaving out major details like if they noticed her BEFORE or AFTER she was covered in foam, and if they thought she was already dead when they noticed her.

[Coligny]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinth ... t/4494157/

The gift that keep on giving...

Battery problems resurfaced on Boeing's 787 on Tuesday, after gas was discovered coming out of a battery on a plane parked in Tokyo.

Damn you taco bell...

[Mike Oxlong]

Japan Starts Search for New Jets for Emperor, Prime Minister

Japan is preparing to replace the aging Boeing Co. (BA) 747-400s used on official visits by the emperor and the prime minister after more than two decades of service.

Authorities have asked interested parties to meet Feb. 3 to brief about the purchase plan and receive feedback, according to a Jan. 27 notice on a government website. The government aims to introduce the planes in the year starting April 2019, according to an official at the nation’s Ministry of Defense, who asked not to be identified, citing rules.

The planes will need to be fitted with secure communication devices, rooms and other equipment and should be able to fly directly to the U.S. east coast, where Washington is about 10,900 kilometers (6,770 miles) from Tokyo, according to the notice. Called seifu senyo ki, or Japanese Air Force One in English, the jets were introduced in 1991, and are also used for transporting Japanese nationals in the event of emergencies.

“With such a long history of using the 747, the government is likely to go with Boeing again,” said Haruo Ushiba, chief analyst at Japan Aviation Management Research. “They’ll most probably go with another wide-body, such as the 777.”

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[Russell]

How about these?

[Coligny]

They still make parts for the Bears ?

[Tsuru]

Japan Starts Search for New Jets for Emperor, Prime Minister

Japan is preparing to replace the aging Boeing Co. (BA) 747-400s used on official visits by the emperor and the prime minister after more than two decades of service.

Authorities have asked interested parties to meet Feb. 3 to brief about the purchase plan and receive feedback, according to a Jan. 27 notice on a government website. The government aims to introduce the planes in the year starting April 2019, according to an official at the nation’s Ministry of Defense, who asked not to be identified, citing rules.

The planes will need to be fitted with secure communication devices, rooms and other equipment and should be able to fly directly to the U.S. east coast, where Washington is about 10,900 kilometers (6,770 miles) from Tokyo, according to the notice. Called seifu senyo ki, or Japanese Air Force One in English, the jets were introduced in 1991, and are also used for transporting Japanese nationals in the event of emergencies.

“With such a long history of using the 747, the government is likely to go with Boeing again,” said Haruo Ushiba, chief analyst at Japan Aviation Management Research. “They’ll most probably go with another wide-body, such as the 777.”

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I agree, it will probably be a couple of 777s. A proven design with over 1000 built, major structural sections of it are made in glorious nippon, and they are relatively cheap to operate since they can be maintained and operated alongside the existing JAL and ANA fleets, just like with the 747. The -300 has the same capacity as a 747-400, but may run into pavement loading limitation issues on some (military) airports. The slightly smaller -200LR has got the legs to fly VIPs halfway around the world non-stop. I'd be very surprised if it would be something else.

Plus, it's pretty smart looking.

[Coligny]

And now, software bug...

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/574774/pil ... r-problems

Requiring "oh the horror" pilots to land the plane manually... Lucky they wuz not korean pilots... Or everyone would be dead by now...

[Russell]

What OS were they running?

[matsuki]

What OS were they running?

Win 3.1 with 2014 Japanese IME patch

[Coligny]

And AOL unlimited 1 month dialup free trial out of 5-1/4 floppy disk...

[yanpa]

And AOL unlimited 1 month dialup free trial out of 5-1/4 floppy disk...

Did AOL ever really send out 5-1/4 floppies?

Totally off-topic, but as an impoverished teenager with a dual-floppy PC-XT, I discovered an excellent way to obtain free media was to write off to companies which offered free demo versions of their software

[matsuki]

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Nahhh, pretty sure they started with these..

[Mike Oxlong]

Boeing admits defeat as an airframe manufacturer, and moves into safer territory with it's lipo batteries...

Boeing making ultra-safe smartphone

U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing has developed a smartphone geared mainly toward people working in defense and homeland security, the company said on its website.

Boeing filed papers with the Federal Communications Commission describing the phone, which is called Boeing Black, uses Google’s Android system and is made in the U.S.

“The U.S. defense and security communities demand trusted access to data to accomplish their missions,” the website says.

“The Boeing Black smartphone was designed with security and modularity in mind to ensure our customers can use the same smartphone across a range of missions and configurations,” it adds without specifying if the phone is already on sale.

The phone will be earmarked mainly toward government defense and homeland defense agencies and their sub-contractors, Boeing said in papers filed with the FCC.

“The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper-proof covering to identify attempted disassembly.”

“Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable,” the filing documents read.

[Wage Slave]

Sounds like something Apple would be very interested in. Profit maximisation rather than homeland security being their motive of course.

[Coligny]

And the circus is still going strong...

Boeing reports wing cracks on 787 Dreamliners in production

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 4194.story

[Coligny]

Also, B777 lost at sea near the VietNamese coastline...

or just lost...

Or just not answering the phone right now...

Malaysia Airlines flight missing with 239 people, including 2 Canadians

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/malaysia-ai ... -1.1720011

A 777:

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A suspicious looking sea:

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[Coligny]

Vietnam TV news channel VTC1 report that:

Mà xét xử của các hình ảnh của một chiếc xe tải cung cấp thịt ở siêu thị dường như hoàn toàn không liên quan đến vụ việc ...

Which judging by the picture of a truck delivering meat at a supermarket seems totally unrelated to the incident...

[legion]

give the poor girl a break

intrepid photo journalists

[matsuki]

Damn, if I was that lemur, I'd probably be murdering anyone pointing a camera at me...

As to the plane...

[Mike Oxlong]

JAL plane makes emergency landing in Honolulu

A Japan Airlines flight bound for San Francisco has made an emergency landing at the Honolulu International Airport.

An airport manager said the jetliner landed without incident around 1 p.m. Saturday.

No other details were provided.

A call after business hours to the airline’s media relations office in Tokyo went unanswered.

It's a Boeing 787. Looks like maybe an engine fire...

[Coligny]

And an Airbus A320 burnt a landing gear tire upon touchdown... Good weekend i'd say...

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian jetliner with 170 people on board caught fire while landing in Nepal's capital on Saturday, but there were no casualties reported.

[Mock Cockpit]

JAL plane makes emergency landing in Honolulu

A Japan Airlines flight bound for San Francisco has made an emergency landing at the Honolulu International Airport.

An airport manager said the jetliner landed without incident around 1 p.m. Saturday.

No other details were provided.

A call after business hours to the airline’s media relations office in Tokyo went unanswered.

It's a Boeing 787. Looks like maybe an engine fire...

How the fuck does a plane bound for San Francisco from Japan end up in Hawaii? Link is a dead end

[Coligny]

airplane routes sometimes try to go over as much islands as possible when going between continents... just in case... like this... where they need to land...

pretty sure Tsuru explained the whole system and linked certification/ratings the plane needs to be allowed wider gaps between emergency landing airport distances.

[Mock Cockpit]

NRT-SFO great circle route goes closer to Anchorage than Honolulu. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nrt-sfo Seems odd to me.

[Coligny]

NRT-SFO great circle route goes closer to Anchorage than Honolulu. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nrt-sfo Seems odd to me.

yup, and all googling tell he should have been doing the polar route...

[Mike Oxlong]

Looks like it was an oil pressure drop in the right engine. Hydraulic thing or whatever. No BBQ this time round.

[Coligny]

Looks like it was an oil pressure drop in the right engine. Hydraulic thing or whatever. No BBQ this time round.

Now, just need to track the engine maker to dump some stock...

[Wibble]

NRT-SFO great circle route goes closer to Anchorage than Honolulu. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nrt-sfo Seems odd to me.

Most aircraft are taking a more southerly route at the moment, probably something to do this the jet stream/current prevailing winds. It's not that odd and I flown it before doing a similar route.

Looks like it was an oil pressure drop in the right engine. Hydraulic thing or whatever. No BBQ this time round.

Now, just need to track the engine maker to dump some stock...

JAL have GE engines on their 787s.