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AvTalk Episode 310: “Engulfed in flames”

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

Flightradar24

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Business News, News, Leisure, Aviation

4.8911 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, another round of tabloid journalism meets aviation incident as a FedEx bird strike and resulting engine fire lead to breathless headlines. Also this week, the FAA issues a set of Airworthiness directives aimed at the CFM56 engine nacelle, Boeing finishes rework on its 787 backlog, and Aer Lingus finally wins a 28 year old court case.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* FedEx 767 diversion playback
* FAA Airworthiness directive regarding CFM56 nacelle
* Canada TSB preliminary report on Air France A350 tail strike
* German lasers for smoother flight
* It’s-a me! Mario! (and friends)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 310 of AvTalk.

0:12.9

I am Ian Petchnik here as always with.

0:16.5

Jason Rabinowitz.

0:17.6

What's going on, Ian?

0:19.7

Oh, God.

0:21.9

Another deep sigh intro followed by, well, that's the episode.

0:26.6

Tune in next week.

0:27.4

This week, thankfully, nothing as bad as it has been in the past couple of weeks

0:32.3

in terms of crashes, incidents, and accidents, or near misses or anything like that.

0:37.4

Unfortunately, it's

0:38.4

just someone with either too much time on their hands or someone who really doesn't like

0:43.6

flight tracking or something is just hammering us with a DDoS attack as of still going on

0:51.5

Wednesday, March 5th. So that has been a crash, just of, you know, the servers or the internet

0:58.6

pipe.

0:58.9

Well, so yeah, it's all more technical than I will claim to fully understand.

1:04.9

But the data is safe, both in terms of the ADSP data that we're receiving, but of

1:10.7

course, more importantly to our users,

1:12.2

the user data, that's never been an issue. But being able to display the site in the way it's

1:21.4

supposed to be displayed 100%. That's been the tricky part. So the things, we were down for a while,

1:26.7

but things have been back up and thankfully, we're ahead of the game. But that's been the tricky part. So the things, we were down for a while, but things have been back up and thankfully we're ahead of the game.

1:30.0

But that's been, if you were the one necessarily on F5 on Flight Rider 25, 400 billion times every second, please stop it.

1:38.2

Yeah, 555,000 times a second, please stop. Yeah. Good advice. Yeah. So that's been fun.

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