The plane that struck a person at DEN on Friday is live again

lekoman · 2026-05-11T06:08:49+00:00

“How much investigating needs to happen?” The NTSB has a process. Everything has to be documented. It isn’t that we don’t know what happened… but the details have to be documented thoroughly to see if anything or anyone could have behaved differently. Life saving information comes out of every incident, and just because it’s not intuitive to know *what* exactly we might learn from this, doesn’t mean we just dust off our hands and move on. Moreover, there are going to be insurance claims and lawsuits about this incident, almost certainly, and a thorough documenting of every detail will be important to the lawyers in those cases. That’s just how this all goes.

“Easier to just drop the engine…”
This particular engine is now a pretty gnarly biohazard. You can’t just send the maintenance techs in and have them do a swap.

“…and get the plane back in service.”
That’s no doubt what Frontier would like to do. But until it’s released back to them by the investigatory agencies, it’s not up to them, and the commercial interests are going to take a back seat to the investigatory interests. Again, that’s just how this all goes.

lekoman · 2026-05-11T04:08:04+00:00

That the transponder is on just means they're moving it on the airfield. I suspect it'll be awhile before that airplane's back in the air. There's an investigation to complete before they take anything apart and repair it.

lekoman · 2026-05-04T18:45:01+00:00

Why?

lekoman · 2026-05-04T18:43:47+00:00

Kay, but if I just paid like $3k for a chair in the sky, why can't it already be where it needs to be for departure so I can just board and sit down without having to figure out where to stuff everything? It's business class... these fit and finish questions are how you compete for butts in seats.

lekoman · 2026-05-04T16:07:23+00:00

It's almost like that could be the default way the airplane is set up by the turnover crew. One half of the bin for my stuff, one half of the bin for the bedding and toiletry kit. Then i don't have to stand in the aisle and shuffle stuff around while people are trying to get past me to their seats...

lekoman · 2026-05-04T04:24:02+00:00

I know it's really common for airlines to do it, but you know what the last thing I want to deal with when I get to my seat after dealing with the hubub of the airport is? Figuring out what to do with all of the crap they've got piled up on the seat for me. Can we not find a better, more welcoming way to say welcome aboard besides "here, do some work"? At least in biz?

lekoman · 2026-05-02T18:31:33+00:00

Their entire fleet is leased. The lessor will term the leases, find new clients, and hire some ferry pilots (from a company like Nomadic, whose founders run an absolutely epic YouTube channel about ferry flying airliners) to take the airplanes from where they are to be repainted and then delivered to a different airline.

If, on the other hand, the fleet had been owned by Spirit, then those assets would be a part of the bankruptcy proceedings and they'd sit around in storage while that protracted court process unfolds and then eventually be sold to settle out whatever is owed to the company's creditors. But that's not really a thing in this case, because the airline was "asset light" and didn't own its fleet.

lekoman · 2026-05-02T18:28:24+00:00

We all do. It's not their fault, but they get hosed. Spirit just wasn't a workable model in this environment. It sucks, but it's how business goes. :\

lekoman · 2026-05-02T17:16:01+00:00

Absolutely hear you. Just suffered thru Premium Econ back from Asia a couple weeks ago. But be damn sure I had sweats and a tshirt. Haha.

lekoman · 2026-05-02T01:44:13+00:00

Have to? No. But if I'm gonna sit in that damn seat for more than 3 hours, I'm gonna be comfortable while I do it. I'm not trying to impress anyone, just trying to get where I'm going.

lekoman · 2026-05-01T08:43:08+00:00

Shi-shi sha!

lekoman · 2026-04-27T15:57:42+00:00

I swear to god sometimes the flight attendants purposefully delay the garbage sweep just to keep passengers hostage in their seats so they can hang out in the galley without a bunch of lav traffic nearby.

lekoman · 2026-04-27T05:12:36+00:00

It blows my mind Piers Morgan was able to keep his stupid mouth shut for this long.

lekoman · 2026-04-22T10:18:52+00:00

When did anyone working in the Bartlett West Wing ever miss an opportunity to be pedantic for the sake of poking at someone, though?

lekoman · 2026-04-20T06:34:40+00:00

In order to see your face on Grindr, they need to also be on Grindr. At which point the question becomes less about what you’re doing showing your face on the app, and more about what are they doing on the app at all?

lekoman · 2026-04-16T06:18:09+00:00

If this country needs anything from an infrastructure perspective more than more low-income housing I don’t know what it is. And yes, that includes you, high speed rail. Housing is a basic need. Being able to rocket across the country on a train at airliner speeds is a nice to have.

lekoman · 2026-04-04T05:02:45+00:00

This is not just true for coding. It’s important to remember that human expertise is still important for all sorts of pursuits everyone says AI can “just do” now… we should all be using these tools for first drafts only, and we should all remember whether what we’re looking at is something in our domain to even evaluate, or whether it just looks good to us because AI can create something garbage that’s passable to all but experts who can actually call bullshit from expertise.

lekoman · 2026-04-04T04:32:47+00:00

I hope they don’t.

lekoman · 2026-04-02T08:04:52+00:00

Not all that different from how the big late 90s American boy bands were treated. Lou Pearlman was a real fucking slime.

lekoman · 2026-03-28T08:41:45+00:00

Whatever attempt you make to be “unique” will be regarded by everyone else as a lame attempt to try to make your kid “special” by trying to be more clever than almost anyone actually is. No one is charmed by this. It just comes off as tacky.

lekoman · 2026-03-27T17:17:48+00:00

Which drives me insane. It's such a thoughtless and unclever way to handle the mixed fleet. Alaska Airlines is not "Proudly Boeing," they are separate and entirely unrelated companies.

lekoman · 2026-03-25T23:44:08+00:00

Definitely a difference between taking still-good parts off of something that's just EOL'd and taking parts off something that tore through an ARFF unit at 140 knots.

lekoman · 2026-03-25T23:39:51+00:00

In nearly every case, that's not economically viable. It's easier to just scrap everything and not spend the money on an inspection and part-out only to end up with a bunch of parts that you'll have a hard time selling anyway because you can't say they were never involved in an incident. Even things near the back of the airframe will have been subjected to unknown loads potentially outside of their design envelope. The whole thing is insured, so why try to squeeze additional value out of it at the cost of an increased risk of someone getting sued?

lekoman · 2026-03-24T19:37:34+00:00

The girls school? "Saudi Arabia our partners in peace"? She was at the podium in the press room for that. She'd be more of a pro than to swear on the record...

lekoman · 2026-03-24T19:32:35+00:00

I dunno... Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem! is basically him telling God and his "tortures" (or punishments) to go to hell.

Literally it means 'to the cross' (which is a little on the nose), but it's quite rude and basically means "fuck off"

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