787 DREAMLINER DELAY TO BA

trident3 – 22/02/2013 10:11 GMT – “TWA800 was shot down by a surface to air missile fired from an updated type 21, just like AF447” WTF ? Bucksnet, you need to get out less !

I think you mean get out more trident3.

Anyway, there is a documentary airing soon about the crash not being accidental. If it’s not accidental dumb sheeple, then what does that leave? A bomb or a missile, and in this case a missile. Some of the original investigators, experts in their field, are breaking their silence on the issue: –

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/19/us/twa-crash-claim/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/18/twa-flight-800-investigators-break-silence-in-new-documentary-claim-original/

“They also provide radar and forensic evidence proving that one or more ordinance explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash.”

I can’t wait to watch it…

rferguson

Thanks for the update. I guess if the crew are going to enjoy the 787 then this goes a long way to enhancing the customer experience. You are always so enthusiastic, but I hope your colleagues are too.

Nice to the see the removal of trolleys. Was there any instruction on heating the soup bowls before serving (please?!).

Mrs Hermes will be on to Boeing about the toilet seat technology – do they do house calls I wonder? 😉

ps (Anyone else remember the Comet 4 when the seat was the flush?)

Good afternoon Rferguson – well we saw it first!!LOL! Thats interesting information, expect you’re looking forward to its arrival. We had a very interesting visit to the Boeing Future of Flight near Seattle just the other week and the latest BA 787 was almost at the end of the production line, in full BA livery, so we saw it close up. Not fitted out internally at that stage of course, but looked impressive all the same. There were another 3 lined up on the Tarmac outside the factory. We were there at the same time as the first Jetstar 787 was rolling off the same production line and there were a host of Australia journalists and TV crew there being shown around.

We also saw the massive Dreamlifter taking off – for those who don’t know, it is a modified 747 with a huge cargo “belly” capable of transporting 787 fuselage parts from the various factories making them to the Boeing field near Seattle to be put together on the 787 production line. I really didn’t think it would get off the ground – it was truly huge and it was quite incredible to watch it thundering down the runway.

I’m still a bit jet lagged this afternoon, but will post more info and some photos on this when I’m “recovered”!!! 😉 LOL!

Edited to add: I’m with mrs Hermes – I hate it when badly trained men leave the loo seat up!!! ;-). All of ours at home self-close, so I am often forgetting when I travel, or worse, stay at friends, and “drop” the loo lid with a bang! So please Mr Male Travellers, close the seat and lid, it makes it a much more pleasant experience for us girls! Thank you! 🙂

Oh and one last little update I forgot to add to the above post:
It will soon (within the next few weeks) be announced that passengers can use their mobile phones as soon as the aircraft turns off the runway after landing instead of waiting until engine shutdown. This is in line with many other airlines.

I can’t believe so many other airlines would allow it (indeed even invite it) if there was any risk. In fact if there was any meaningful risk, mobile phones would presumably not be allowed on board to start with.

Indeed has it been established that mobile phones have caused a plane to crash – ever?

Martyn…

You’ll find its not BA asking you to switch off your phone from gate to gate, it’s british law which enforces you to do so courtesy of the CAA and therefore we are all expected to follow it every bit as much as we are expected not to rob a bank, drive without a seatbelt or murder someone! Lol!

However BA is working with the CAA to try to encourage a change in the rules to bring it more up to date. However until the date it is permitted it will remain illegal to switch on a phone until otherwise informed so best not to back chat to the crew over the fact!

However there was a fatal accident back in the 90s which resulted in a knee jerk reaction by most European countries to ban the use of mobile phones onboard it’s aircraft which still remains today!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossair_Flight_498

Nopes, only UK registered aircraft flying under a UK AOC are required to enforce it.

Bit like how Ryanair although with numerous bases all around Europe fly Irish registered aircraft and are trained and follow Irish aviation law!

I’m not making it up ya know!!!!

Sorry hate quoting wiki but here ya are…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft

“A 2000 study by the British Civil Aviation Authority[12] found that a mobile phone, when used near the cockpit or other avionics equipment location, will exceed safety levels for older equipment (compliant with 1984 standards). Such equipment is still in use, even in new aircraft. Therefore, the report concludes, the current policy, which restricts the use of mobile phones on all aircraft while the engines are running, should remain in force.”

And the crossair bit is relevant, it provides a background to the ban of mobile phones on aircraft and the belief (rightly or wrongly) that they cause interference!