Personal experience of dealing with people from the countries concerned suggests to me that both Ethiopia and Indonesia are somewhat more honest than Pakistan - not up to US/Europe, but not at the bottom of the list either.

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Bob Smith
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This is 1 very lucky police officer.

Police officer almost hit in Sydney multi-car crash

He should buy a few lottery tickets.

If you're going to do something, you might as well do it right.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well that brought the house (fuel station) down.....

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Bob Smith
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That's not just the odd one, that's a third of their pilots. Forgery on an industrial scale coupled with corporate greed and blindness.
The whole management structure of that company should be standing up and not only doing the Japanese "Apology of Honour", but following up with the other Japanese "act of honour".
One has to ask how many ex-PIA "pilots" with similar licences are now employed by other airlines having got a decent number hours with a national carrier, and how other airlines check the validity of an applicants licence.

Vietnam has also grounded all pilots with Pakistan Pilots Licenses

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

If you're going to do something, you might as well do it right.

I wonder how they will explain that to their Insurance Co..

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

I wonder how they will explain that to their Insurance Co..

"I was doin' ok until that last van on the back jumped." ;-)

Cheers.

How many times do they have to remind people "TURN AROUND - DON'T DROWN!"
Woman Miraculously Survives After Being Swept Through Storm Drain for Nearly a Mile

... The car and the woman traveled through the complex labyrinthine brook, and it didn’t take long before Bruno was spit out into the river, about a mile from where the incident started.

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Warnings have now been put out about Boeing 737's engine air bleed valves and corrosion issues during COVID-19 storage.

Airlines' Grounded Boeing 737s May Have Developed Fatal Engine Defect in Storage: FAA.

According to the FAA, the engines on several variants of Boeing's 737 airliner have developed issues whilst sitting around for so long, grounded due to low demand for air travel. Although there haven't been any crashes or forced landings yet, single engines have failed four times during flight so far.

The FAA reports that the issue has to do with one of the air bleed valves—air bleed number five in particular—on the turbofan engine's compressor stage. This valve opens during takeoff power, and then closes at lower throttle positions, like when the plane begins to descend for landing. However, due to corrosion, this valve may stay open when it's supposed to close. This means the engine stalls, and it cannot be restarted in flight.

This corrosion is of course caused by the long periods of time that many airlines have been sitting around. The FAA considers an airliner to be "in storage" if it's been sitting for more than 7 days, so a lot of planes have definitely been in storage by the FAA's standards.

As if Boeing needs more problems, but the 737 MAX isn't involved with this time.

Cheers.

We should keep our eyes on the A32x family as they use the same engines.

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Bob Smith
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We should keep our eyes on the A32x family as they use the same engines.

Notice how the press makes an engine problem an airframe problem.

We should keep our eyes on the A32x family as they use the same engines.

Notice how the press makes an engine problem an airframe problem.

Well, it does look to be the problem is with Boeing's parts and Boeing's design that have been bolted onto the engine...

(Also suggesting that part of the system is different on the A32x aircraft.)


Stay safe!
Martin

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We should keep our eyes on the A32x family as they use the same engines.

Notice how the press makes an engine problem an airframe problem.

Well, it does look to be the problem is with Boeing's parts and Boeing's design that have been bolted onto the engine...

(Also suggesting that part of the system is different on the A32x aircraft.)

Indeed so...

See Message 2054158 for further detail.


Stay safe!
Martin

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Blood-soaked Florida man clings to truck for 9 miles, bashes windshield in crazy video

Highway Patrol troopers took the man into custody but had no explanation for his behavior

Edward Hughes, a truck driver, told TMZ that he saw the man frantically waving for him to stop. Hughes did, concerned that the man was covered in blood, but he instead jumped onto the hood of the semi tractor-trailer and started bashing the windshield with a metal object.

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A train hit by, or running into, a landslip:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53751678

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

California police officer pulls man in wheelchair from oncoming train with seconds to spare, video shows

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What the... How can this be safe?
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

Boeing’s 747-400 aircraft, first introduced in 1988, is still receiving critical software updates through 3.5-inch floppy disks. The Register reports that security researchers at Pen Test Partners recently got access to a British Airways 747, after the airline decided to retire its fleet following a plummet in travel during the coronavirus pandemic. The team was able to inspect the full avionics bay beneath the passenger deck, with its data center-like racks of modular black boxes that perform different functions for the plane.

Pen Test Partners discovered a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive in the cockpit, which is used to load important navigation databases. It’s a database that has to be updated every 28 days, and an engineer visits each month with the latest updates.

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What the... How can this be safe?
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

Boeing’s 747-400 aircraft, first introduced in 1988, is still receiving critical software updates through 3.5-inch floppy disks. The Register reports that security researchers at Pen Test Partners recently got access to a British Airways 747, after the airline decided to retire its fleet following a plummet in travel during the coronavirus pandemic. The team was able to inspect the full avionics bay beneath the passenger deck, with its data center-like racks of modular black boxes that perform different functions for the plane.

Pen Test Partners discovered a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive in the cockpit, which is used to load important navigation databases. It’s a database that has to be updated every 28 days, and an engineer visits each month with the latest updates.

How are you going to screw with a floppy? Now an internet connected airplane ... .

If you didn't know the FAA updates the US navigation database every 28 days and has for decades. When it started it was paper and they still print it with ink on paper - FLIP charts. Jeppesen is the leading commercial redistributor of the database. They also print ink on paper - Jepp charts - as well as many electronic formats including 747 floppies. Guess who owns Jeppesen? Boeing!

ergo a Boeing floppy in a Boeing airplane.

If you just are upset that it is a floppy and not some kind of USB stick, to make that change they would have to recertify the entire avionics system. Not as cheap as making the switch on your desktop!

What the... How can this be safe?
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

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If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

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Grant
Darwin NT

What the... How can this be safe?
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

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If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Maybe Martin was expecting a punched card reader instead? ;-)

Cheers.