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As jcpro pointed out, not an isolated incident. When Delta and Northwest combined, they discovered over a dozen instances where at least one pitot tube froze. The FAA equivalent in Europe, EASA had 17 reports of pitot tube freezing incidents on the type. Your opinion differs from BEA's...

Hard to say. Airliners are very complex and experience problems all the time. Can't hold a plane in testing forever. The Airbus A330 was introduced in 1994, but it wasn't until 2009 when Air France flight 447 crashed because faulty pitot tubes set off a chain reaction of bad decisions. The...

No he doesn't. If he did, he wouldn't be calling the 737 MAX "heaps". Airframes have long lives. It's the engines and avionics that go out of date. Lockheed has been making the C130 continuously for over 60 years. The De Havilland Twin Otter blueprints have been bought out by Viking Air...

You buy a redesign from ANY manufacturer, there WILL be problems. Saying Air Canada should have bought the A320 NEO is armchair quarterbacking. It takes 5 to 10 years to sort out new generation aircraft. Doesn't matter which manufacturer you select. Airbus, Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup...

China is pulling 737 MAX's off the line. Other airlines will probably follow.

That's because they, along with most other airlines can't afford to pull them off the line. Meanwhile behind the scenes they are probably doing the same thing as Boeing, scrambling to duplicate the scenario in a simulator and come up with a procedure to deal with the problem if it happens until...

If you're not going to break out into a sweat or have close access to a warm place, you can cheap out and buy cotton. If you're going to be sweating away in the middle of nowhere with no access to a warm place, you need to buy synthetic or wool. If catching on fire is an issue, use cotton or...

The U.S. system is a terrible system to use as a comparison. The spectrum of training and pay is too broad. You have agencies like the New Jersey State Police that pay more than Canadian agencies, and then you have backwoods Sheriff's offices where the Sheriff is elected and then hires his...

Fire shortly after 11 am? Kitchen cooking fire is a more probable cause than a fault with the house.

There would probably still be a thread. Probably wouldn't be a bunch of conspiracy theories if they weren't immigrants. Seem to be ignoring that there were reported problems with the baseboard heaters, that fire is the most likely disaster a family will face, and that low income people are...

People here who think the story sounds sketchy or are skeptical need an education in fire safety. First of all, smoke detectors detect smoke, not fire. Secondly, a large number of houses are equipped with the wrong type of smoke detector. Ionization detectors are good for smoke from fast...

Looks like it may have been a faulty base board heater. https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019/02/20/baseboard-heater-may-have-caused-halifax-house-fire-that-killed-seven-children.html Given the extent of damage, I don't know if they'll be able to determine the cause with 100% certainty...

I highly doubt it was foul play. Sacrificing 7 of your own children to bring over extended family? Risking second and third degree burns to yourself? How much do you like your inlaws? Although rare, events like this happen from time to time. A house a couple of blocks away blew up a few...

Boeing is sticking it to Airbus. A Feb 1 announcement was made that takes 747-8 production beyond 2022. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2018/02/07/ups-order-for-14-boeing-747-freighters-might-once-have-been-for-airbus-a380/#7b3e15bf433e

A company is: https://boomsupersonic.com/ You know how you end up with a million dollars in aviation? Start off with 2 million. Who knows if it will actually be successful.

Unless there is a revolutionary breakthrough in aerodynamics, commercial travel speed will not increase. Fuel efficiency increases exponentially as you close in on the transonic barrier. Aircraft actually fly a little slower these days to stay out of transonic flight for max efficiency. The...

Goes to show to what extent CEO's and companies will go to feed their egos. Boeing was initially not going to create a 747-8 variant because their predictions were that a larger aircraft wasn't needed. Airbus wanted to top Boeing. Airlines are retiring these A380's early and the aircraft are...

nottyboi has absolutely no credibility. Look what he posted about the new drunk driving laws. So he's OK with the police demanding firearms owners cough up whatever they want, but when it comes to the police checking for drunk drivers, which kill approximately 650 people a year, the police...

You keep quoting the unsubstantiated information from Di Danieli. Falling back on a false article constantly contributes to your lack of credibility. How are the strict firearms laws working out in France? Preventing any mass murders? We have the largest unguarded border in the world with...

It is sufficient. You keep missing that there is anywhere from 12 to 20 million guns in Canada, and less than 0.01% are stolen a year. The police lose hundreds of guns a year. You should be more worried about this as their guns don't have to meet the same restrictions as civilian guns...