AvTalk Episode 273: Congress, Dutch roll, and bad titanium
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is back in front of Congress. A trio of stories involving Southwest Airlines, including an apparent incidence of Dutch roll, a roller coast ri...
21 Jun 202437min
AvTalk Episode 272: Reduced separation
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Air India and IndiGO A320neos come close enough for authorities to open an investigation. We detail the sequence of events and why this incident received any attentio...
14 Jun 202441min
AvTalk Episode 271: Boeing’s plan to fix itself
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Jason flies from Germany to New York just to record the podcast and you can barely tell he’s been awake for nearly 24 hours. And in the news, Boeing provides the FAA ...
7 Jun 202433min
AvTalk Episode 270: Coming to an airplane near you, news from AIX 2024
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, investigators in Singapore release their preliminary findings for the turbulence encountered by SQ321. And Jason is joined by Seth Miller in Hamburg as we review the ...
31 Mai 202441min
AvTalk Episode 269: Extreme turbulence
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the extreme turbulence encountered by Singapore Airlines’ flight SQ321 that led to the death of one passenger and serious injuries to dozens of others. We ...
24 Mai 202439min
AvTalk Episode 268: Not-so-deferred prosecution?
On this episode of AvTalk, the US Department of Justice finds Boeing violated the terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement and Congress passes the FAA reauthorization and we dig in to see what...
17 Mai 202447min
AvTalk Episode 267: Falsifying records
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, employees at Boeing’s 787 assembly facility in South Carolina were falsifying inspection records. Spirit Aerosystems loses nearly as much in the first quarter of 2024...
10 Mai 202436min
AvTalk Episode 266: A new challenger emerges
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we learn that Embraer is considering a challenge to the Airbus-Boeing duopoly with a new mainline single-aisle aircraft of its own. Indigo orders up to 100 Airbus A35...
3 Mai 202450min
