r/aviation

Mine is almost certainly the Runway 19 approach into KDCA. It gives you a phenomenal view of the Mall. (The first half of the video is muted because I was talking over everything, lol.)

I do wonder how many people would have panicked when a lightning would have hit the wing of the plane or the plane was going through heavy turbolence, although this is situation is so so much more dangerous.

Domestic Canadian flight today, with a very informal boarding process, at the check in counter the lady told us, "oh yeah we don't do boarding passes, the pilot will just come up and call out the flight and just follow him to the plane"

Maybe contributing to what happened: our flight had been delayed for several hours due to weather.

Eventually the incoming arrives and the pilot comes out and says "who all is going to vancouver? Follow me" and a group of about 6 people follow him to the plane.

We all get seated, the pilot is talking with the ground staff because some mix-up has occurred and after about 5 more minutes four more ladies get on the plane. (This mix up probably also contributed)

We take off and during the 1 hour flight, after about 30 minutes, the pilot handwrites on a piece of paper "please wright your names" [sic] and hands the paper and pen to me sitting closest to the front.

I put my name down and pass it down and eventually the note gets passed back up to me with all the passenger names and I hand it back to the pilot.

I see him get a photo of the list, presumably to text it to the airline staff people.

When we land he says, "is there a ms. Xxx on board" and before he can even finish that sentence she says "yep I realized what happened".

Deplaned and met by ground staff at the destination airport who comes up and say they need to talk with her and they hustle her off to a taxi.

I overheard another passenger sitting closer to her who said she overheard that they were going to put her on a plane back to where we came from, and some mention of her luggage as well that had already gotten to wherever she was actually supposed to go.

Hope no one gets in trouble (but maybe sharpen up the check in, boarding/headcount process!), and that the extra passenger ended up wherever she needed to be in time!

Photo of the list, and the view I got enjoy on the ride.

I was the lower floor, seat 51A, meaning second row on left side.
Once landed we were told there is a thunderstorms and airport is shut down so we waited on the taxi for an hour.
Then we were told that was a gate issue, it was occupied by another A380 and that was the reason for the delay.
Both statements came from the pilot announcements.
Baggage took another 2.5 hours.

Could be the Pathfinder 1 since I was near Moffett Field?

Have a few vintage fixed wings and warbirds that fly around this airport (M54) but love seeing the “old” helis that are still in action. I reckon it’s doing heavy lifting in Nashville. This is Midwest Heli N4247V.

**Edited for tail number**

How many seats do you reckon Ryanair would try to stick in them?

Room 811 has a partial runway view, and you can even watch planes from the pool!

RAAF Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II (A35-026) operated by 3 Sqn, Warbirds Downunder Temora, above Temora Aviation Museum, Temora, NSW. 18-19 October 2024.

The latest VASaviation video captures the controller expressing his frustration and the confusion it causes for them.

This is the third incident (that we know of) in the last few months. I still don't quite understand how it's possible, as I'm used to airlines using consecutive flight numbering for inbound and outbound flights e.g. Flight 1234 from A to B, Flight 1235 from B to A.

Doesn't the scheduling software have a check for this type of conflict?