AvTalk Episode 203: United’s disturbing dive after departure
On this week’s AvTalk, a United Airlines 777’s steep dive after departure and other recent incidents lead to FAA calling for a safety summit. We dig in to what’s happened and what regulators want to d...
17 Feb 202346min
AvTalk Episode 202: Less than 100 feet apart
On this episode of AvTalk, we float through the stratosphere with a Chinese spy balloon and break down the data on multiple accidents and incidents. From FedEx and Southwest’s very close call in Austi...
10 Feb 202342min
AvTalk Episode 201: Sending the last 747 home
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by The Air Current’s Jon Ostrower for a discussion about the delivery of the last Boeing 747 and Boeing’s plans for the future in Everett and beyond. Ostrower expl...
3 Feb 202340min
AvTalk Episode 200: Boeing earnings and arraignment, NTSB comments again
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing reports its financial results for 2022, we preview Boeing’s arraignment on fraud charges in Texas, the NTSB issues more comments on the Ethiopian 302 final rep...
27 Jan 202342min
AvTalk Episode 199: One crashed, two came close
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the crash of Yeti Airlines flight 691, a major safety incident in New York that could have been much worse, and Gabriel Leigh sits down with John Nilsson o...
20 Jan 202347min
AvTalk Episode 198: Organ Transplant Logistics
On this episode of AvTalk, we walk through what we know (so far) about the FAA’s NOTAM system outage. And Casey Humphries from the United Network for Organ Sharing and Chris Curran of New England Dono...
13 Jan 20231h 4min
AvTalk Episode 197: The problem with the ET302 final report
On our first episode of 2023, we see how Southwest has recovered from its meltdown; investigators issue their final report on ET302, but the NTSB and BEA have more to add; and airspace in the Philippi...
6 Jan 202351min
AvTalk Episode 196: Our favorite conversations from 2022
From people who live and breath the nuts and bolts of running an airline to journalists covering the business of aviation, our conversations took us all over the world and down more than one rabbit ho...
30 Dec 202257min
