Andyrooc

'powder like'? Surely it was either powder, or it wasn't? Anyway, my guess is the 'powder-like substance' is: Desiccated Coconut Reasoning: It's like a powder, but isn't, and is likely to confuse Canadians.

A man is alone in an airport lounge. A beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the table next to him.*He decides, because she's wearing a uniform, she's probably an off-duty stewardess.So he decides to have a go at picking her up by identifying the airline she flies for, thereby impressing her greatly. He leans across to her and says the British Airways motto : 'To Fly. To Serve'. The woman looks at him blankly. He sits back and thinks up another line. He leans forward again and delivers the Air France motto: 'Winning the hearts of the world'. Again she just stares at him with a slightly puzzled look on her face. Undeterred, he tries again, this time saying the Malaysian Airlines motto: 'Going beyond expectations'.The woman looks at him sternly and says: 'What the f*** do you want?' 'Ah ha!' he says "Qantas".

Be nice to see some recommended system specifications on the page somewhere. It sure looks great, but I wonder if my poor little system will cope.

Re: Point 6. If you think that's bad, you should try Windows!

Well OK then. Not sure about the giant sharks, but there's certainly plenty of crap about!

Not if you haven't seen it. Like Schrödinger's cat (which may or may not be in the movie).

I'm not sure realism was something the director was looking for. Well, apart from the flying shark that was larger than the 747. That looked pretty accurate. Unlike the wing flex....

That looks awesome!

It was almost certainly this (snapped off YSSY recently): ...it's got liquid stairs you know.

Speaking of OCD...

Or gun control...

It's going to take a Gorbachev*10 to crack that egg.

Well, it would be nice if they at least adopted some of China's level of openness, because I believe many people, especially Chinese, would see Nth Korea as a great place to invest if there was more openness. Not unlike East Germany I'd say. However, you do get the feeling that with this level of Stockholm Syndrome, it might be very destabilising for Nth Korea to open up too much at any one time. Not unlike Russia with it's Peristoika and Glasnost I'd say.

A pilot helps his mate get over his fear of flying...

You'd have to say that one person having one little tiny problem, not even with the product, just support, then screeching BOYCOTT! is a rather drastic over-reaction. Makes wonder what other little over-reactions occurred in the exchange of emails, which only one part was selectively repeated here? Dan is pretty affable, and generous with his time and support. The response attributed to Dan in the OP would appear to be on the end of some conversation with an aggressive customer at best and possibly not his words at all. I wonder what the "-Anonymous" bit in the OP is?

http://slothed.com/2013/07/23/korean-news-station-pokes-fun-at-ktvu-with-fake-american-pilot-names-after-southwest-airlines-landing-gear-failure/ "You probably remember KTVU’s royal eff up with reading obviously fake Asian names for the pilots of the Asiana crash. Names like “Wi To Lo” and “Ho Lee Fuk”. It looks like a Korean news agency is having some fun at KTVU’s expense. After the landing gear failure of the Southwest flight at LGA they showed this graphic with American pilot names “Captain Kent Parker Wright”, “Co-Captain Wyatt Wooden Workman”. They even went as far as making up fake names for people to interview. Flight instructor “Heywood U. Flye-Moore” and skeptical passenger “Macy Lawyers”. Well played Korean TV, well played."

Nice little simulation: http://vimeo.com/70167988#

I read they were making approaches for autoland certification, which included approaches on one engine. There was nothing saying the crash approach was one with an engine out, although that would certainly increase the work. They have really got to stop crashing this nice little aircraft. It should at least have been warning the pilots audibly of too low/terrain/landing gear.

The pictures here take me back: http://www.volny.cz/havlikjosef/historyenglish.htm I remember flying this one a lot: http://www.tok2.com/home/avionics/falcon2ibm/index.html Falcon was pretty awesome, and it's a pity it stopped at 4 (which of course I have )

Ironic in a Alanis Morrisette kind of way I guess...

Interesting, and it gels with stuff I have heard/read as well. I talked to a few jet pilots (73/76/74) and one thing I came away with was the importance of airspeed. It's kind of the king of everything when flying because without enough of it, you stop flying and start falling. But it does seem that some airlines almost 'untrain' that rule from their pilots instincts by mandating automation and lowering its importance. So the pilots might have been doing what they had been trained to do, but really, the whole reason behind having a human up the front is to take care of situations that cannot be automated, and in that, it's seems that they and their training have failed rather badly. If indeed that is what happened!

You could be right now that I look at it, but I was being a little facetious as well, and exaggeration was added for effect The second photo is remarkable for the guy casually towing his luggage and on his phone - as if he did this every day. In fact it's remarkable the number of people who evacuated with their luggage seeing as you're not supposed to take such things on escape slides - at least on airlines I've been on.

Indeed, the huge fireball and subsequent fire would seem to indicate something flammable came into contact with something hot. And it definitely wasn't the left engine...

Despite being mentioned in the NOTAMs, the PAPIs were actually working.

I have a theory: "If you weren't there in the cockpit, you probably don't know what happened. If you were there in the cockpit, you probably don't know what happened either." So, the number of theories written on the internets provides roughly zero additional knowledge as to what actually happened, and even less as to why it happened.