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    American Airlines Container Fire, Hong Kong

    American Airlines Flight AA192 had a little bit of an issue while standing prior to takeoff Oct 9 2017, earlier today. As the Boeing 777 was being loaded, the container loader malfunctioned, resulting in a fire. The fire spread, and burned the cargo container. The plane was scheduled to fly from Hong Kong-Chek Lap Kok International Airport to LAX in Los Angeles. According to Flightradar24, the flight was cancelled. (I expect so!)

    A pilot sent us these images:


    IMG_1275-1 Click to view .MOV file

    IMG_1276 Click to view .MOV file

    See more about this plane.

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    Jubba Airways Broke on Landing, No injuries

    What: Jubba Airways Antonov AN-24 en route from Hargeisa to Galkayo
    Where: Galkayo
    When: Apr 28th 2012
    Who: 32 passengers and 4 crew
    Why: On landing, both right main gear tires blew. The right wing separated from the rest of the plane. The plane apparently came to a stop off the runway— but we haven’t seen any photos.

    We have to disagree with the Minister of Aviation Mr. Gamute stating that it was the pilot who could not land the plane. He also spoke derogatorily of the old, uninspected Russian-made planes. But his top quote was this:
    “There is always irresponsibility of the planes done by the local agencies. They do not meet the requirements of Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) for domestic flights.”

    For crying out loud, he’s the Minister of Aviation! Isn’t HE supposed to do something about this?

    No one was hurt. We’ve seen accidents a lot worse than that.

    *Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, normal photographs were not available so our staff three year old drew us his interpretation of an AN-24 in crayon.