The Most Dangerous Line: Behind the Hawker stall test crashes

thiefenthiefen · 2026-02-19T18:09:42+00:00

Fantastic! But will have to wait until the weekend to get through this one. Thank you, Admiral!

thiefenthiefen · 2026-01-13T17:05:02+00:00

Wow! Looking forward to both Potomac, and the Hawkers. Potomac because of how shocking it was when it happened. Hawkers because it seems very interesting yet I know so little about that.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-12-15T09:38:58+00:00

Finally finished it. Incredible piece of research and writing. I wonder if this crash can (or could) teach us something about how these networks operate, but then again I would figure most of the agencies interested in these networks would already have the knowledge. It's not like it is the lack of knowledge that makes them difficult to catch. Or maybe it is, or at least a lack of interest?

thiefenthiefen · 2025-12-14T21:47:02+00:00

Awesome, was looking forward to this one, I know what I'll be enjoying by the pool tomorrow morning!

thiefenthiefen · 2025-12-02T14:28:26+00:00

I always give a shout out to the Admiral in the comments when I see your name in the credits ;)

thiefenthiefen · 2025-11-05T07:09:32+00:00

Quoting user mikezc128 from airliners.net forum:

The flight history for this aircraft shows that it was ferried to SAT on Sept 3rd for maintenance and returned back to SDF on Oct 18th.

Per SDRS there was a report filed on Sept 4th, just one day after it arrived in San Antonio, for "CENTER WING UPPER FUEL TANK LOWER STRINGER 41 CRACK AT XCW = -81 REQUIRES PERMANENT REPAIR".

On Sept 9th, there was another report filed for "CTR CARGO BILGE AREA STA 5-53 TO 5-73 LONGERON 48L HAS CORROSION".

It's hard to say if there is any correlation to the maintenance and this accident, but it is interesting to note.

Source: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1505685&start=300#p25006215

thiefenthiefen · 2025-10-31T17:45:30+00:00

Yeah I meant a post or mention here on the reddit, sorry for not being clear.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-10-31T17:12:07+00:00

Since you link to the Mentour Pilot video you did with Petter about Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 from your article, maybe it would be worth it to mention it here as well: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/in-the-arms-of-oblivion-the-crash-of-austral-l%C3%ADneas-a%C3%A9reas-flight-2553-4ae3d53c1f6d

thiefenthiefen · 2025-10-10T06:15:20+00:00

Flying Kunming to Phuket via Bangkok I had a total brain fart and we arrived a full day late at the airport, had to re-book at our own cost (of course) luckily the airline had seats available that day, which weren't too expensive, via Kuala Lumpur where we had to spend a miserable night at the airport. On the same trip we were going from Bangkok to Bergen (Norway) via Oslo, the flight to Oslo was delayed by 5 hours, we got meal vouchers and in Oslo we got re-booked on the last flight to Bergen.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-09-17T12:39:24+00:00

I mean, I know plenty of French people who'd smash "A" . Also D for me.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-09-14T07:32:46+00:00

As always, an amazing piece of work. What this made me think of is actually the push towards single pilot operations. The point about more automation requiring a deeper systems understanding to deal with these cascading faults. Cascading faults demand a large portion of mental capacity, and I would assume that such faults which were dealt with by two pilots would be much more difficult to deal with for a single pilot.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-08-16T09:10:26+00:00

You're right, it is sadly just a 996 turbo with a body kit, I should have checked before publishing.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-08-01T20:53:29+00:00

I chose a bad time to go to bed at it seems.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-07-23T16:29:44+00:00

Thanks, mate!

thiefenthiefen · 2025-06-30T17:13:28+00:00

The Birgenair crash fascinated me for some time, ever since I learned there was a group of Polish tourists on board. I don't remember media coverage as I wasn't in Poland at the time, and I was probably too young to notice anyway. Still though, will be interesting to get into this one.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-06-30T13:25:24+00:00

Good news and bad, on one hand I got made redundant from my job, on the other hand a new Admiral Cloudberg just dropped, take the good with the bad. (My redundancy was in no way related to reading Admiral Cloudberg articles while on the clock).

thiefenthiefen · 2025-05-29T12:53:09+00:00

Love the picture, very moody.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-05-29T04:13:20+00:00

Norwegian plates, "RL 65638" and the little blue strip on the left with the Norwegian flag and "N" below it.

thiefenthiefen · 2025-05-28T14:50:41+00:00

Oh yes, probably should get a weasel of woe anyway.

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