Hello and welcome to episode 285 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenick here as always with Jason Rabinowitz and Ian you told me that there's a lot to talk about today before we started recording is that that still the case? I mean I hope so. Otherwise it kind of defeats the purpose of doing a podcast.

And here we thought it would be a quiet end of summer week. Yeah, it wasn't.

It's only Wednesday.

And some of the biggest news that we're talking about probably won't happen until early Friday morning

right before the podcast comes out.

So we're going to talk about some things and we're

going to make some assumptions and some what ifs. And then next week we'll come back and

talk about whether we got it right or got it wrong.

But we'll get to that a little bit later.

All else being equal would have been the top story this week talking about Boeing and

the IAM's tentative labor agreement and possible vote to accept the agreement or strike by the rank and file.

But we go to Atlanta first, where the good folks taxing aircraft in Atlanta, I believe the technical term for this

Jason is a whoopsie daisy? I think you might find that in a couple handbooks

yeah. Yeah, we'll check the ICAO library just to make sure. But thankfully, no one was injured when a Delta Airlines A350 struck an endeavor error operating as Delta Connection, CRJ 900 in Atlanta on Tuesday morning.

That collision with the right wing tip of the A350 striking the tail of the CRJ 900 resulted in the tail of the CRJ 900 falling off.

Huh.

Yeah, that's different.

The A350 wasn't taxing an abnormally high rate of speed.

12 knots.

12 knots. 12 knots.

So not crazy.

I mean, generally speaking.

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