The cap should have been caught on preflight. On another note,a lot of parts are aftermarket to save money. Even aftermarket parts still have a part number with manufacturers name and certification paperwork. Seems it may have been a counterfeit part from a dubious supplier. To many this may not seem like a big deal, until something like this happens.

(Written on 05/23/2023)(Permalink)

I have to agree with you on that. Most of my pax who are not regular fliers think we make up delays due to our inefficiency as an airline. I try to explain how the system works and a lot of them get it.

(Written on 05/19/2023)(Permalink)

Cleveland is on the north side of Ohio, and it's another major city. Cleveland's airport can serve other areas in the upper regions like parts of upstate NY and PA that aren't served by mainline flying.

(Written on 05/18/2023)(Permalink)

This BS right here! If our culture was so "woke", we should be looking at the real issues, like where our tax dollars should really be spent. I don't care who's effing who, or who calls themselves whatever. Why don't we stick to real issues? On a lighter note, the deer where I live outnumber me. That AR15 comes in handy (only during hunting season of course).

(Written on 05/09/2023)(Permalink)

Wow, another knee-jerk, feel good legislation to make people feel better and more entitled. Yeah, that really works.

(Written on 05/09/2023)(Permalink)

LOL, and they're easily converted to combis (in the USAF we CP configuration). If comfort isn't an issue just slap some web seats on the sides and middle and they're good to go.

(Written on 05/08/2023)(Permalink)

That's another aircraft we're already seeing less of, as much as I enjoyed flying on them. However, on to bigger and better. 50 seaters are really not feasible anymore from what I've read in various articles.

(Written on 05/08/2023)(Permalink)

I feel you on that. I was MAC. I didn't work fleet, but that was part of my job and trained for it in tech school

(Written on 04/21/2023)(Permalink)

You were the guy busted me in Stone Mountain, GA for driving my minivan a day after my insurance lapsed. My wife were talking about she just paid insurance on a our mommy mobile. Being labor day weekend, I was in DeKalb jail for five days. My insurance company didn't change the make and model of our new minivan. I felt pretty stupid because I'm paying insurance on a vehicle we no longer owned. DMV let me transfer the plate. To be honest, I was to blame because of my complacency and trust the power who be I got busted by the scanners on the back of patrol cars. We contacted our insurance and they said we didn't process the payment, sorry. We got busted again a month later while my wife was driving. No one went to jail, but our vehicle was impounded and the officer gave us a ride home because he noticed something was going on outside our control. AI can not evaluate every action. Going back to aircraft, always keep up to date with AD'S and the specific maintenance log on the aircraft yo

(Written on 04/21/2023)(Permalink)

Oops, I accidentally down voted you. I agree. I was a flight attendant for a regional. How else are the "new" pilots going to learn. Even after 9/11 and the mass furloughs by the legacies, we had a lot of, say 767 captains flying as FO's on our J41's. Even some of the most experienced pilots I've flown with make mistakes. No mistakes to be nearly an accident, thank goodness. You can have 20K hours of flight in one type of aircraft and still eff up. Even my regional airline rigously trained our new pilots to fly their aircraft.

(Written on 04/21/2023)(Permalink)