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  1. Alistair_Heaton

    Electric car ship fire.

    From china to new Mexico car transport ship has been abandoned due fire. https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/cargo-ship-carrying-3000-vehicles-abandoned-after-fire-breaks-out-near-alaska/
  2. Alistair_Heaton

    Bayesian interim report

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bayesian-interim-report-published for those interested.
  3. Alistair_Heaton

    Air Traffic control failures

    Seems to be a common issue in Europe and USA. Old hardware and software and lacking personnel. It's becoming a factor in most aviation threads in this forum. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2gr7994lo
  4. Alistair_Heaton

    Tug accident

    https://www.marineinsight.com/case-studies/real-life-incident-tug-capsizes-with-2-fatalities/ Trying to get my head round the forces involved
  5. Alistair_Heaton

    Cable car failure in Italy.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq7345yrjo Being reported, bit confusing if there was another car involved which became detached. And it looks very similar to this thread from 2021 https://www.eng-tips.com/threads/cable-car-disaster-in-italy.483442/
  6. Alistair_Heaton

    L410 bag into prop

    https://nypost.com/video/backpack-flies-into-plane-propeller-and-shreds-instantly/ That would have been a bit of thump and yaw. To note I can only presume it came from the forward hold. The door being open or opening on that would be more of a concern to me than a soft bag doing what it did.
  7. Alistair_Heaton

    Vilnius crash

    http://www.b737.org.uk/incident_ec-mfe.htm Prelim report out. Human error, apparently this error has been occuring for decades through all the 737 series. Never been fixed.
  8. Alistair_Heaton

    Swiss Cheese

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/science/james-reason-dead.html Rest in peace Sir I will admit I didn't know it was you that gave the picture that so many have understood.
  9. Alistair_Heaton

    Tanker on fire Northsea

    Ongoing incident in North sea. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q4129reqgo Engineering wise similar to the aviation incidents human performance likely to be the main cause. I would have thought there should have been collision alarms on both.
  10. Alistair_Heaton

    PW1500G engine failure A220 swiss

    https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/swiss-airbus-a220-engine-shows-unknown-fault-pattern-2504242.html To note I pilot this type for a different airline. I have zero inside knowledge. There have been fume issues with engine seals but they seem to have systems to deal with that. This is...
  11. Alistair_Heaton

    FLC vertical mode.

    Stick monkey here trying to work out what's going on when you select FLC on a A220/c series. Can't find any documentation about what it's actually aiming for with a speed reduction decent. It seems to command a green dot minimum drag angle of attack. It's doesn't slow down or go down. And...
  12. Alistair_Heaton

    DHL 737-400 crash

    Chilling cockpit audio from doomed Boeing 737 DHL plane is revealed https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14126733/chilling-cockpit-audio-boeing-737-revealed.html Quite strange Wondering if was an issue with the rudder. Quite amazing that people survived.
  13. Alistair_Heaton

    Airbag recall

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/most-expensive-recall-history-forced-japanese-auto-company-takata-file-bankruptcy The previous thread on airbags is closed. Sept 24 being the most recent fatality caused me to post this.
  14. Alistair_Heaton

    Lithium fire Missouri

    https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-10-31/smoke-plume-from-missouri-lithium-ion-battery-plant-fire-forces-some-locals-to-evacuate Looks like a big one.
  15. Alistair_Heaton

    Power infrastructure failure cuba

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/26/cuba-power-grid-failure-financial-crisis Lack of maintenance and zero capital investment.
  16. Alistair_Heaton

    Australian Bridge

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/bridgewater-bridge-alignment-problem-tasmania/104503766 Building by Lego.
  17. Alistair_Heaton

    Boeing again pt2.

    https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=515237 first thread
  18. Alistair_Heaton

    Super Yacht sank in the med

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg343vjwklo This is hot news at the moment mainly due to who was killed. Seemed to go down very quickly.
  19. Alistair_Heaton

    Aging road bridges

    Disaster prevention I would call this. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-autobahn-bridges-falling-apart/a-69439952 Thought it would interest some what's happening in Germany with there extensive road network. 20 years ago you could drive flat out no speed limits on most of it. These days local...
  20. Alistair_Heaton

    Hospital build in Latvia.

    https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/21.02.2024-hospital-takes-over-site-from-builders-in-dramatic-standoff.a543773/ They started building this at the end of Covid and its 50 meters away across the road from where I live...

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