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The odds that this was going to be anything other than crew-induced was always astronomically low. Simultaneous dual failures, while at the most critical phase of flight, in an established aircraft is possible, but come on.

If I was CSAF, I swear the first thing id tell the new chief is, “Focus on shit that matters. Talk to me about uniform bullshit once and you’re fired.”

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Fuel to cutoff and back to run may be part of the dual engine failure items? May have thought engines spooling back was dual engine failure? Maybe had wrong alt set in MCP and when VNAV engaged at 400 ft they went to idle? honestly have heard lots of plausible theories and I think you are right that they are gonna release information in the least attention grabbing news worthy ways possible. Piece by piece until people aren’t interested in it any more.

WSJ article today indicates a pilot might have shut off the fuel. That would be completely bizarre if true but the available evidence does match that scenario. The 787 engines start so slowly that if they were accidentally shut off at low altitude, I doubt you'd have any chance. Also interesting that everything so far is only mentioning two pilots, so apparently no IRO to watch out for buffoonery like critical switch errors. With the flight being over 8 hrs, you'd think they'd have an IRO. The article points out the abnormal delays from India in releasing the accident data. I infer from that an intentional delay that the results are so embarrassing that India as a country is hoping that the world's attention is elsewhere when the final report is released. Maybe they're going to slowly leak the info over a long time until it isn't a big deal when it is finally released.

Apparently a lot of the enlisted folks think this is another thing wrong with the USAF.

R, D, L, I, whatever. If they’re ing around with kids (or anyone for that matter) they should be hung Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-uniforms-boots/ There is no reason for women to have 1 inch, fake eyelashes while in uniform. I am glad leadership have reversed course on permitting those atrocious eyelash extensions. At least Big Blue actually did some research and will allow those with a medical condition (Alopecia etc) to receive an exemption.

If there is/was a list of rich dudes who like to fuck children, I'd like to know who else was on said list besides Prince Andrew. This is something that should not be allowed to be just forgiven. I don't care which political party the rapists are affiliated with. I have zero trust in our civilian leadership regarding this issue.

Mayorkas deserves the book thrown at him. Biden was braindead but Mayorkas knew without a doubt the treason he was committing on the border. Try him and hang him!

Comey, Brennan, and Clapper under DOJ investigation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-cheers-fbi-probe-of-former-foes-comey-and-brennan-over-russiagate-investigation-they-re-crooked-as-hell/ar-AA1IhLHm?ocid=BingNewsSerp Would love to see some SWAT-style raids and perp walks. A boy can dream...

Yeah, poor guy will have to go home to his multi-million dollar Oxford estate and continue being intimate with Ginger Spice and her pennies as well. He'll be a talking cranium very shortly, I'm sure.

That about sums it up. He built the team, then screwed the pooch (supposedly). Something needs to change at RB (list current issues here).

Down goes Frasier, er, Horner! https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/red-bull-says-longtime-f1-team-principal-christian-horner-has-been-released-from-his-duties/ar-AA1IfDME?ocid=BingNewsSerp Sorry , not sorry

Concur with that idea that if we acquired a seaplane platform it would have to be right sized in terms of platform and fleet size, with that in mind if I was asked in the matter I’d buy an existing one, pretty much the US-2 seaplane or maybe the FF72 ATR based floatplane I would not call it niche but optimized light-medium long range utility for the maritime environment Here’s where I’m guilty of putting the cart before the horse in this idea, I could see having to or choosing to buy specialized or new equipment to be transported by this hypothetical platform vs what we have now, especially if this platform didn’t have a ramp cargo door system. This would be to get more out of it, especially when doing resupply to remote and austere locations. That makes you question the rationale for it in the first place. Not managing the jenga puzzle of requirements/budgets/compatibility/constraints, it’s easy to just yes to cool seaplane, details later but reality always kicks in… If the price could be better; AFSOC, AMC, USMC, USCG & interested Allies could negotiate a mass buy, one configuration and each buyer tailor their planes as desired. Keep it right sized but enough to get Shinmaywa interested AFSOC gets a maritime lift/strike/ISR/CSAR platform AMC gets a long range mobility and probe/drogue tanker Other services would probably use those two configurations WAG fleet size (all users) 100-125 tails Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting, probably some “non-standard” or personal reasons driving those.

Lotta very good points here. I'll add one caveat; the bulk of the MC-J community outside of AFSOC/HQ thought that putting floats on an MC-J was either very dumb or very funny, depending on who you asked. Everyone knew the concept wasn't going anywhere. However, the two AFSOC/CCs that were in charge when this was being kicked around weren't the types who took feedback very well.

We've had a couple come through the HC-130J FTU this year. Not sure of their individual stories.

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Investigation is focused on the pilots, high probability of an engine failure followed by them canning the good engine. Also looking at crew fatigue. Even before they had the flight data recorders the Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is the Indian equivalent of the FAA received an alert from the crew management system indicating multiple events of aircraft (including this one), exceeding defined crew duty day due to scheduling. At least three senior officials from Air India were immediately terminated including a top executive in the flight operations department — from their roles and responsibilities, citing “systemic failures” and “multiple violations” related to the validity of pilot licenses and their rest requirements.

Concur...horrific on both counts.