AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast episodes:

• 04.19.2024

  AvTalk Episode 264: Stolen gold and expensive eels

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, escalating retaliatory attacks between Iran and Israel and their effects on global air travel, congressional hearings sharpen the focus on Boeing’s problems, and United Airlines makes big changes to its order book. Plus, we’ve...

  
• 04.12.2024

  AvTalk Episode 263: Another whistle blows

  Thousands of extra planes take to the skies and New Jersey experiences an earthquake. And that’s just through Monday this week. We then hear from a fresh whistleblower at Boeing who alleges that some 787 and 777 aircraft could experience...

  
• 04.05.2024

  AvTalk Episode 262: Striking for the right to strike

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a plane crash lands and then crashes into another plane that crashed a few months earlier. Pratt and Whitney may have a new problem on their hands. The FAA’s mental health panel makes its...

  
• 03.29.2024

  AvTalk Episode 261: How the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we welcome AIN Media Group editor-in-chief Matt Thurber to discuss how the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing and jamming. Plus, major leadership changes at Boeing could take the company in a new...

  
• 03.22.2024

  AvTalk Episode 260: Beware the chair

  On this episode of AvTalk, an update on the inflight upset experienced by a LATAM 787, the problem with popular media’s hyper focus on aviation incidents, and we dig in to the report detailing what actually happened when an errant...

  
• 03.15.2024

  AvTalk Episode 259: Asleep at the sidestick

  On this episode of AvTalk, Batik Air pilots asleep on the flight deck, a LATAM flight experiences an inflight upset, and Boeing’s problems only seem to be getting bigger. Batik Air pilots were asleep for nearly 30 minutes during their flight...

  
• 03.08.2024

  AvTalk Episode 258: With respect to documentation

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, JetBlue and Spirit walk away, American Airlines adds to its order book, and the NTSB isn’t pleased with Boeing. JetBlue and Spirit call it quits JetBlue and Spirit agreed to terminate their merger agreement, deciding that...

  
• 03.01.2024

  AvTalk Episode 257: 30 minutes of bad decisions

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, following a highly critical report by a panel of aviation safety experts, the FAA gives Boeing 90 days to explain how its going to get its act together. We review a collection of aviation...

  
• 02.23.2024

  AvTalk Episode 256: A bad day in Belgrade

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Marathon Airlines E195 operating for Air Serbia strikes the ILS array on departure, rogue ATC on the radio over Somalia, Air Canada fire its chatbot, and updates from this year’s Singapore Airshow. Marathon Airlines...

  
• 02.16.2024

  AvTalk Episode 255: Grounded for the dumbest of reasons

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, United Airlines’ fleet of A321neos is temporarily grounded for the dumbest of reasons. Plus the NTSB comes out swinging at the FAA demanding new rules requiring 25 hour cockpit voice recorders apply to existing...

  
• 02.09.2024

  AvTalk Episode 254: The bolts, they are missing

  On this episode of AvTalk, we review the NTSB’s preliminary report on Alaska Airlines flight 1282, fresh quality issues affecting some 737 MAX, and Finnair gets out the scales to weigh some of its passengers. AS1282 preliminary report The NTSB released its...

  
• 02.02.2024

  AvTalk Episode 253: Time traveling with Taylor Swift and turtles

  On this episode of AvTalk, we welcome back The Air Current’s founder and editor Jon Ostrower to pull back from Boeing’s immediate crisis and take stock of the state of the company. We look at the challenges facing Boeing, including regaining...

  
• 01.26.2024

  AvTalk Episode 252: Let’s inspect more 737s

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a bit of a different kind of episode to start. And then its onto more Boeing 737 inspections, angry airlines, and a perfectly executed emergency landing. This episode of AvTalk was recorded on Tuesday,...

  
• 01.19.2024

  AvTalk Episode 251: 737-9 MAX inspections and investigations

  On this episode of AvTalk, we take a deep look at the actions by the FAA, airlines, and Boeing in the wake of the accident involving Alaska Airlines flight 1282. Working through the time line of statements, regulatory actions, and...

  
• 01.11.2024

  AvTalk Episode 250: Alaska Airlines flight 1282

  On this episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason are joined by Nomadic Aviation Group’s Steve Giordano to discuss the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 accident. We break down what we know so far about the explosive departure from the aircraft of...

  
• 01.05.2024

  AvTalk Episode 249: Japan Airlines flight 516

  On this episode of AvTalk, we explore what we know so far about the collision between Japan Airlines flight JL516 and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft in Tokyo on 2 January. We spend time laying out the facts we know...

  
• 12.29.2023

  AvTalk Episode 248: Our favorite conversations of 2023

  As we close out the year we look back on our a few of our favorite AvTalk conversations from 2023. There were many great ones to choose from, so visit our archive to hear them all. We’ve picked out a...

  
• 12.22.2023

  AvTalk Episode 247: He’s a stowaway!

  On this episode of AvTalk, we scratch our heads trying to figure out the story of a stowaway who managed to make it from Copenhagen to Los Angeles aboard an SAS flight. Stopped by a US customs officer, the man...

  
• 12.15.2023

  AvTalk Episode 246: Getting goosed

  On this episode of AvTalk, Jason is still alive, Ian makes his way home from Sweden, passengers on a Delta flight are waylaid in Goose Bay, and Boeing picks a Pope. Ian and Jason are back in action this week...

  
• 12.08.2023

  AvTalk Episode 245: Alaska says Aloha

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Gabriel Leigh joins Ian in Stockholm to discuss his travels for the Flightradar24 YouTube channel, including a very exciting trip coming up in January. And we speak with Ned Russell, airlines editor at Skift...

  
• 12.01.2023

  AvTalk Episode 244: Olov Lindström: how to land a 787 in Antarctica

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Jason checks in from Taipei and Ian sits down with Olov Lindström, Norse Atlantic Airways Fleet Chief pilot and the first person to captain a 787 to Antarctica. We learn all about the special...

  
• 11.24.2023

  AvTalk Episode 243: Turkey, mashed potatoes, and Shinkansen

  We bring you an abbreviated Thanksgiving week episode, partly because of the Thanksgiving holiday, but mostly because Jason is wandering around Japan on high speed trains. We have some updates on stories we discussed last week as well as some...

  
• 11.17.2023

  AvTalk Episode 242: Quit horsing around back there

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a horse escapes its stall onboard a 747 flying from New York to Liege. A panel of experts says decades of congressional meddling and underfunding of the FAA introduces undue risk to flying in...

  
• 11.10.2023

  AvTalk Episode 241: Want to run the most secretive airline in the world?

  On this episode of AvTalk, we learn that the arraignment of the pilot who threatened his captain with a gun has been delayed—because he is on active duty military service outside the country. A Titan Airways A321neo was damaged by...

  
• 11.03.2023

  AvTalk Episode 240: First officer threatens to shoot captain over medical diversion

  On this episode of AvTalk, we’re flabbergasted to learn about the events aboard a Delta flight last August as the first officer threatened to shoot the captain if they diverted the flight due to an onboard medical emergency. Elsewhere, the...

  
• 10.27.2023

  AvTalk Episode 239: Event Horizon

  On this episode of AvTalk, we spend a full third of the episode attempting to understand what happened on Horizon Air flight 2059 after an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot sitting in the flight deck jump seat tried to shut down...

  
• 10.20.2023

  AvTalk Episode 238: The greatest reinvention of an airline in the history of aviation

  On this week’s AvTalk, Jason Rosewell from Infinite Flight joins us to discuss the new partnership between Flightradar24 and Infinite Flight that makes our new 3D view so amazing. We also learn more about how Infinite Flight got started and...

  
• 10.13.2023

  AvTalk Episode 237: The civil aviation situation in Israel

  On this week’s episode, we take stock of rapidly evolving civil aviation situation in Israel. How are airlines reacting, which are halting flights, and which are still flying to Tel Aviv. Elsewhere, a FedEx 757 makes a gear up landing,...

  
• 10.06.2023

  AvTalk Episode 236: Into the Airchive!

  On this episode of AvTalk, we chat with curator of theAirchive.net, Chris Sloan. United Airlines adds more aircraft to its order book, SAS will say hello to Air France+KLM and goodbye to Star Alliance, and Qantas is in more hot...

  
• 09.29.2023

  AvTalk Episode 235: 1200 pilots short

  On this week’s AvTalk, the pilots of the Ural Airlines A320 that ran out of fuel and landed in a field didn’t know the gear was down. VivaAerobus becomes the first airline to add new routes after Mexico regains its...

  
• 09.22.2023

  AvTalk 234: Route proving with the A321XLR

  On this episode of AvTalk, our Chris Lomas becomes the first non-Airbus employee to fly the A321XLR as he joins the route proving campaign. Plus, one company sold aircraft parts based on forged documents, Akasa Air in India loses so...

  
• 09.15.2023

  AvTalk Episode 233: Ural in a field (again)

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we recap all the fun we had at Dorkfest and Spot LAX, including our meeting with one incredible young avgeek. Plus, another Ural Airlines flight ends up in a field, Pratt and Whitney delivers...

  
• 09.08.2023

  AvTalk Episode 232: Duplicate waypoints led to NATS outage

  On this episode of AvTalk, we learn that the cause of the NATS outage at the end of August was two identically named waypoints 4,000 miles apart. Plus, we discover Discover Airlines, learn a thing or two from an air...

  
• 09.01.2023

  AvTalk Episode 231: Investigation, what investigation?

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a NATS computer failure snarls traffic in the UK, Russia says there won’t be an investigation into the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane, and some 737 MAX are affected by a fresh quality issue...

  
• 08.25.2023

  AvTalk Episode 230: Prigozhin’s plane plummets

  On this episode of AvTalk, what we know so far about the crash of an Embraer Legacy 600 in Russia that is said to have been carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and top Wagner Group officials. And we sit down for a...

  
• 08.18.2023

  AvTalk Episode 229: Just kidding about vacation, this is a new episode

  We were wrong. Last week, Ian promised a clip show. But then news happened! So we have a new show for you this week. Ian and Jason discuss the new Air India logo, livery, and cabin interiors; the NTSB’s final...

  
• 08.11.2023

  AvTalk Episode 228: Jumpseat cameraman

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Niger’s airspace closure creates confusion and delay; the NTSB investigation into a close call in Boston reveals video evidence of just how close of a call it was; and travel demand is up, but...

  
• 08.04.2023

  AvTalk Episode 227: TCAS for the win!

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, TCAS comes to the rescue, averting a mid-air collision off the coast of Florida between an Allegiant Air A320 and Gulfstream. NASA is flying low over major US cities for science. And a United...

  
• 07.28.2023

  AvTalk 226: Contaminated powder and a single piece of chicken

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, very expensive news for Pratt and Whitney and more headaches for A320neo operators. Go First gets the green light to relaunch if they can meet specific conditions. A Delta 767 suffers heavy hail damage over Italy....

  
• 07.21.2023

  AvTalk Episode 225: The escaping escape slide

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a United 767’s escape slide escapes the aircraft just before landing in Chicago, Northern Pacific is off to a shaky start, and some airline worker unions are quite pleased while others are ready to...

  
• 07.14.2023

  AvTalk Episode 224: An unruly passenger

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren returns as resident Avgeek-in-Chief to talk about his behind the scenes look at how airline safety cards are designed. And a United passenger had their journey from Houston to Amsterdam end in...

  
• 07.07.2023

  AvTalk Episode 223: That’s a bad look Scott

  On this week’s episode, we give United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby some friendly advice, JetBlue tries to make nice with the DOJ by not appealing the ruling invalidating the Northeast Alliance, and Ian has some choice words for one news...

  
• 06.30.2023

  AvTalk Episode 222: They warned us it would be bad

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the first major operational meltdown of the summer hits the US, a Delta 717 lands without its nose gear, and we chat with Zac Brown, founder of European Pride in Aviation Network (EPAN), about...

  
• 06.23.2023

  AvTalk Episode 221: The largest single order in commercial aircraft history

  On this week’s AvTalk, we break down all the news from the 2023 Paris Air Show, from IndiGo’s record breaking order to the new propulsion technologies just over the horizon. The 2023 Paris Air Show IndiGo kicked off the show with a...

  
• 06.16.2023

  AvTalk Episode 220: Nonstop to Beef Island

  On this episode of AvTalk, Air India’s diversion to Russia ends up being about as easy as it gets. The FAA has a new acting administrator and the FAA reauthorization bill currently working its ways through the US Congress has...

  
• 06.09.2023

  AvTalk Episode 219: Air India is in for a long wait

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, an Air India 777 diverts to Russia and we walk through the challenges of getting an aircraft repaired in a country under US sanctions. Boeing is dealing with a fresh 787 quality issue. And...

  
• 06.02.2023

  AvTalk Episode 218: Asiana’s open door policy

  On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a passenger opens an exit door just before landing in Daegu, a new entrant for the most unrealistic airline business model emerges, and Boeing tries to kick start things ahead of the Paris Airshow. American...

  
• 05.26.2023

  AvTalk Episode 217: The NEA is DOA

  On this episode of AvTalk founder and editor of The Airline Observer, Brian Sumers, joins us to discuss the ruling by a US judge dissolving American Airlines and JetBlue’s Northeast Alliance and what that could mean for JetBlue’s acquisition of...

  
• 05.19.2023

  AvTalk Episode 216: Former NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt

  On this episode of AvTalk, former NTSB Chair and member of the FAA’s recently formed Independent Safety Review Team, Robert Sumwalt joins the program to discuss the state of aviation safety in the United States and how industry and regulators...

  
• 05.12.2023

  AvTalk Episode 215: Ryanair goes all in on the 737-10 MAX

  On this episode of AvTalk, Ryanair commits to up to 300 Boeing 737-10 MAX, Go First receives bankruptcy protection, frustrating lessor attempts to repossess their aircraft, and we talk with Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Chief Strategy Officer Jenny Kavanagh about their...