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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st May 2022, 14:24
Replies: 130
Views: 72,044
Posted By FunkyStick

Does anyone recall an incident with 9Q-CJH or...

Does anyone recall an incident with 9Q-CJH or EL-WXA (now known as XM496 in Cotswald) where chlorine gas cargo leaked and killed some of the pax???? This would have been around 1996 in Zaire or the...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Oct 2014, 16:45
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

Vanishing Airliners: a followup to the theft of N844AA

Air & Space magazine has just published a followup to the theft of N844AA. The new story looks at how large aircraft have been able to disappear without drawing headlines. It also discusses a new...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Oct 2014, 16:41
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

FOIAs and the Angolans

Jo, sorry for the late reply. Didn't know it was here.

The FBI documents were interesting but about the only thing they revealed is that the FBI didn't know aviation and that there was a turf...
Forum: African Aviation
23rd Jul 2014, 18:35
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

FOIAs and the Angolans

<<Tim,
You mentioned in your article that you requested FBI records as part of FOIA. Did they ever reply? >>
...yes, they did but it was years after I filed the request. I got thousands of pages,...
Forum: North America
27th Oct 2013, 18:16
Replies: 12
Views: 2,999
Posted By FunkyStick

<<do you write for USA today?>> ...no. The...

<<do you write for USA today?>>
...no. The bulk of my work is with Smithsonian Air & Space although I have worked a lot with AOPA Pilot and some with the EAA.


<<I've always taken any...
Forum: North America
27th Oct 2013, 16:40
Replies: 12
Views: 2,999
Posted By FunkyStick

Flyboyike wrote: <<An aviation journalist...

Flyboyike wrote:

<<An aviation journalist who apparently:>>

<<1. Doesn't know the seat numbering on airliners is numbers first, then letter, as in16C, not C16;>>
....you got me. I hadn't...
Forum: North America
21st Oct 2013, 14:55
Replies: 12
Views: 2,999
Posted By FunkyStick

Rick777 wrote: " It is better to get info...

Rick777 wrote:

" It is better to get info that you don't need than not find out about something significant."

I thought the same way.

Upon reflection, its a delicate situation. You don't...
Forum: North America
21st Oct 2013, 14:49
Replies: 12
Views: 2,999
Posted By FunkyStick

McLuvin wrote "I am guessing they did...

McLuvin wrote

"I am guessing they did nothing?"
...correct. And I was surprised by their lack of concern. I expected a "friendly visit" by one of the pilots on his way to "use" the toilet.
...
Forum: North America
19th Oct 2013, 21:01
Replies: 12
Views: 2,999
Posted By FunkyStick

When a pax reports an inflight issue

Full disclosure: I'm an aviation journalist.

The other night I was returning home on a Delta CRJ-700 from out west. I was in seat C16 next to the window and the next to the last row. Shortly...
Forum: African Aviation
13th Aug 2013, 17:43
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhinocg/rhin...

<<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhinocg/rhino-rig-for-dslr-and-cinema-cameras>>

The airplane is J5-GCU. If you Google that with Mali you'll have almost everything I have.

Also, I think...
Forum: African Aviation
13th Aug 2013, 13:55
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

The whole thing smacks to me as insurance fraud.

Maury and his son both say no insurance money was ever paid. Maury told me that he was caught in a Catch-22: in order to file a claim he had to prove the airplane was stolen and without the...
Forum: African Aviation
5th Jun 2013, 16:57
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<- could the 727 in the desert of Mali be the...

<<- could the 727 in the desert of Mali be the missing N844AA?>>

That was my first guess. But it's not. This aircraft's history has been pretty well identified.
Forum: African Aviation
4th Jun 2013, 16:08
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<It is not the first time a 727 has disappeared...

<<It is not the first time a 727 has disappeared without trace. This one had a fully qualified crew and was a planned ditching in the atlantic in 1990 due to being low on fuel. It has never been...
Forum: African Aviation
3rd Jun 2013, 15:10
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<When and where, if i may kindly ask?>> At...

<<When and where, if i may kindly ask?>>

At this point JanetFlight, all I'd like to say is that the event took place in Africa.
Forum: African Aviation
31st May 2013, 13:00
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

The ocean crash is a good theory. However, there...

The ocean crash is a good theory. However, there are a few holes in it. For one, unless the aircraft made a perfect open ocean landing in the dark there should have been some debris somewhere wash...
Forum: African Aviation
29th May 2013, 22:03
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<Any update on the B727 N844AA that went missing...

<<Any update on the B727 N844AA that went missing off the ramp in Luanda 10 years ago?
Can it be that no one of us has ever seen it around somewhere for 10 years?>>


Great question Flap Mover. ...
Forum: Private Flying
7th Aug 2011, 01:44
Replies: 30
Views: 8,997
Posted By FunkyStick

in flight video

Check out the GoPro video camera. It does HD, records to an SD card and can capture cockpit sound. To tap the camera directly into the audio/radio/intercom would take a little more work but...
Forum: African Aviation
7th Aug 2011, 01:14
Replies: 199
Views: 379,329
Posted By FunkyStick

Target practice

I'm surprised no one has discussed how often non-military aircraft have been shot down in Africa.

I'm well aware that things in Angola have improved but I know of no other region of the world...
Forum: African Aviation
11th Jul 2011, 14:56
Replies: 32
Views: 8,857
Posted By FunkyStick

silence in the news

I have yet to hear one mention of this on the news in the US. It never ceases to amaze me how Africa just doesnt matter here.
Forum: African Aviation
28th Jun 2011, 21:48
Replies: 12
Views: 1,747
Posted By FunkyStick

I was looking at some of the airstrips in...

I was looking at some of the airstrips in southern Sudan that Trackmark used to fly into. I spent several days on the ground at Mapel but the satellite imagery doesn't look anything like I...
Forum: African Aviation
28th Jun 2011, 15:26
Replies: 12
Views: 1,747
Posted By FunkyStick

Trackmark camp

I remember downing a few at their pool myself.
Forum: African Aviation
28th Jun 2011, 14:45
Replies: 12
Views: 1,747
Posted By FunkyStick

Loki

Its been a while since I was in Loki. Can anybody tell me what is going on up there these days?
Forum: African Aviation
3rd Oct 2010, 22:03
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<The funny bit is how the family think the...

<<The funny bit is how the family think the Military Industrial Compex actually has any intelligence to release on this missing aircraft.

Having failed to predict 911, failed by predicting WMDs...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Oct 2010, 20:19
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<My sincere apologies for the Typo>> ...

<<My sincere apologies for the Typo>>

......I'll probably cry myself to sleep tonight, Mr. Fesmokie.

Actually, there are probably plenty of people who would attest your "typo" is more...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Oct 2010, 17:17
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

727 photo

<<Funky, according to the info embedded in the image is was taken in Aug 2008.>>

172, I dont see the date as being an issue but that was a good catch on your part. I should have noticed that.
...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Oct 2010, 14:10
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

727 photo

I've been told that this aircraft was delivered in March/April of 2002 and was known in the US as N860AA. It was registered as 5N-RIR. Information with it indicates it was IRS airlines first...
Forum: African Aviation
1st Oct 2010, 18:57
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

727 photo

<<South Africa. FALA, Lanseria>>

Interesting coincidence. Lanseria and IRS both figure into the story.

Lanseria is where N844AA was supposed to be going. The airplane in the image was most...
Forum: African Aviation
1st Oct 2010, 12:27
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

727 photo

I dont think is N844AA. If she wore the IRS colors, she got them after she was stolen. It's doubtful that IRS would have taken 44AA and put it into passenger service because the interior was...
Forum: African Aviation
15th Sep 2010, 10:51
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

mali drug 727

Janet flight,

I wondered about that too so I contacted the DEA and asked. Despite repeated checking by my contact, the final word was that nobody knew or they weren't saying....which my contac...
Forum: African Aviation
11th Sep 2010, 23:22
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<even if they had been informed that night who...

<<even if they had been informed that night who would have gone looking for them?>>

Soapbox Cowboy makes some very good points. The lack of SAR was repeatedly driven home to me.

In talking...
Forum: African Aviation
11th Sep 2010, 21:47
Replies: 72
Views: 69,570
Posted By FunkyStick

<<<Jean Mutantu was the FE on the flight out of...

<<<Jean Mutantu was the FE on the flight out of Luanda he now resides in the prison in Abuja for what I have never been able to find out. He knows the whereabouts of the aircraft for sure. I...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st May 2010, 15:38
Replies: 46
Views: 14,825
Posted By FunkyStick

very cold

<<Regardless of the degree of cold weather encountered, the cowl flaps should be opened one third (10°) for take off.>>

......this is a minor point in the grand scheme of things, but in hours of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Apr 2010, 22:13
Replies: 46
Views: 14,825
Posted By FunkyStick

Rick

Treadigraph
<<He came across as a really nice bloke.>>

I didnt "fit in" the group when I first arrived. I was a journalist, an environmentalist, not "a wrench" and not the TV crew. I was, to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Apr 2010, 21:27
Replies: 46
Views: 14,825
Posted By FunkyStick

Pulling spark plugs on the engine

<<To my way of thinking, if it was necessary to remove the prop there is no way that a lock could be fixed in short order. I suspect it may be a myth, perhaps generated by the fact that the props...
Forum: African Aviation
28th Apr 2010, 20:23
Replies: 0
Views: 1,074
Posted By FunkyStick

Gerhard, Ewan and Earl

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to find Sandy Boag, Gerhard Louw, Ewan Beyers and Earl Thomas.

Just to be upfront, I'm a writer and I have an assignment that I'm working on and I think these guys can help...
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