Hello and welcome to episode 256 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with Jason Urbanoids. That was a nice lead

in Ian, thank you. I'm feeling wound up today. I figured I'd give us a good wind up to get in the show because we have a lot to get through.

Yeah, we have like a whole page of things. None of them individually or particularly big. Well, one item is kind of big.

But the rest of it is just regular news.

Remember the before times,

before like Boeing fell apart and then before COVID

where it was just like ran to pieces and news that was it.

We would talk about airplanes and yeah things that were happening in the world and

it feels like that again today. Almost like that, yeah.

A full show, the Singapore Air Show is in full swing.

There's a few bits and bobs of good news, some bad news,

and then the show begins today with a very, very lucky

aircraft and very, very lucky passengers and crew because this could have been so much worse that it was.

I'm referring to the Marathon Airlines Embraer E-195 that was operating for Air Serbia on its way from Belgrade to

Dusseldorf that departed not from the end of the runway but from an

intersection takeoff.

Now, intersection takeoffs happen all the time.

It's when an aircraft takes off not from the end of the runway,

but from one of the taxiway intersections further down the runway, it leads to a shortened runway.

But what's supposed to happen is you're supposed to depart from an intersection,

knowing full well that the remaining runway is perfectly acceptable

for all of your takeoff performance calculations. It appears that that did not happen in this particular case and the aircraft departed after

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