AvTalk Episode 355: Systemic failures
On this week’s episode of AvTalk: The NTSB holds its board meeting to determine the probable cause of the mid-air collision above the Potomac River last January UPS announces it has retired its MD-11 ...
30 Jan 53min
AvTalk Episode 354: Want to buy a 747SP?
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the US issues a set of NOTAMs warning of military activity in a large swath of the North Pacific. The NTSB issues an update on the UPS MD-11 crash, focusing on additi...
23 Jan 43min
AvTalk Episode 353: Boeing has a banner year
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing and Airbus report their final tallies for orders and deliveries in 2025 and it was Boeing’s best year since 2018. Allegiant is buying Sun Country in a shake up...
16 Jan 37min
AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya
We begin the year with a mess in Amsterdam as more than 3,000 flights have been canceled at the airport this week following snow storms and a long list of operational problems. We look at the impact o...
9 Jan 50min
AvTalk Episode 351: Our favorite conversations from 2025
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we’re beginning 2026 by looking back at a pair of our favorite conversations from 2025. Throughout the year, we focused a lot on the seemingly unending stream of new...
2 Jan 34min
AvTalk Episode 350: “Outrageous:” close calls near Venezuela
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a pair of incidents involving civilian aircraft and military aircraft without active transponders operating in Curaçao’s airspace sounds a bit too familiar. We discus...
19 Dec 202545min
AvTalk Episode 349: How do you forget about a 737?
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason return from their respective travels to survey this week’s news. We return to India where IndiGo’s meltdown last week left the government none-too-pleas...
12 Dec 202539min
AvTalk Episode 348: Consider the airspace closed in its entirety
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian is joined by new Flightradar24 crew member Daniel Gustafsson in the Flightradar24 offices in Stockholm, while Jason finishes his journey through Japan’s cat cafes...
5 Dec 202525min
