AvTalk Episode 322: They bounced the wheel right off

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason and back home from Stockholm and ready to take on the week’s news. The NTSB is out with a handful of reports, including details on the FedEx 767 bird strike in Newark, Frontier’s hard landing and go around in San Juan, and Alaska Airlines’ main landing gear collapse. We also discuss the crash of a Cessna Citation in San Diego last week.
Plus, Boeing says it has a fix for the 777X thrust link problem, which grounded the test fleet for months.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* FedEx 767 birdstrike preliminary report
* Frontier A321neo hard landing and go around
* Delta 717 nose gear collapse
* Delta 717 engine problems
* Alaska severe turbulence
* Alaska main landing gear collapse
* Rockwell Turbo Encabulator (original)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 32 of AvTalk.
0:12.1	I am Ian Petchnik here as always with Jason Urbanowitz and Ian, are you as tired as I am right now?
0:20.7	As I mentioned before we hit record, A, yes, and B, I don't think it's jet lag.
0:28.3	I think it's life lag.
0:30.5	I think I did so much more last week than I normally do or so many different things that my body goes,
0:44.0	why did you do that?
0:45.2	That checks out.
0:46.5	Yeah.
0:47.5	At this stage of my life, jet lag doesn't hit me where I'm going.
0:51.1	It only hits me when I've returned from where I've been. So I feel like I really
0:55.2	haven't slept in a couple days. So that's an interesting change in my jet lag habits that I didn't
1:02.3	see coming and really don't care for. Yeah, I mean, I'm just kind of baking it into the equation
1:09.3	now, knowing that when I get home the few
1:13.3	days after that, that's going to be when it really hits me. The adrenaline wears off, I think,
1:18.0	is what it is. And then you're left with what you've got. But we both made it home safely
1:25.5	from Stockholm. It was so good to see you in person and to...
1:29.9	You as well.
1:31.1	To spend time with you in a city that I have come to love over the past decade.
1:35.9	And especially to enjoy for the first time with you when it was nice out for a few days.
1:42.5	Yeah.
1:43.3	Sunlight and happiness and birds were chirping. It was nice out for a few days. Yeah. Sunlight and happiness and birds were chirping.
1:47.2	It was, I mean, I never quite saw it get completely dark out.
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