AvTalk Episode 326: Diversions and diversion tactics

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss all that has happened in Middle East airspace over the past week—from the US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and elaborate diversion flights to the Iranian retaliation against US bases in Qatar and the subsequent airspace restrictions to the fragile cease fire and the gradual opening of airways.
We also ponder why nearly two weeks after the crash of Air India flight 171, investigators have still not reviewed the data from the flight data recorders even as both were recovered just days after the crash. And the NTSB holds its probable cause board meeting for the mid-cabin exit door plug blowout aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282, find that Boeing’s safety culture and the FAA’s lax oversight contributed to the door plug’s ejection from the aircraft as it passed 15,000 feet last January.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* The B-2 tanker diversion
* NTSB probable cause summary for Alaska 1282

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 326 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik here, as always with
0:16.3	Justin Urbinowitz. Hello, Ian. I assume you're still there and have not melted. I have not melt. I melted a little bit earlier this week, but I have reconstituted the puddle that was formerly me. And I'm back in action.
0:31.2	That's good. So we sent the heat your way. Yes, thank you. Please stop doing that. We don't want anymore, but it's hot here. I know it's been
0:39.1	hot in Europe. It's hot all over. Welcome to summer. You know, as soon as we entered
0:45.7	summer solstice, it became hot. So right on cue, can't be mad. Right on cue. Yeah. So last week
0:54.1	was busy for all the wrong reasons. And this week is, thankfully,
1:00.7	a little less busy. We don't have a major crash to talk about. Thankfully, we will have some
1:10.0	updates later in the program on Air India Flight
1:12.3	171. Kind of. Some things to say about the updates or lack thereof. But we do have plenty
1:20.3	of updates. Quiet weeks or good weeks, you know? Yeah. I'll take it. I'm not sure if I'm
1:24.9	call this quiet. I don't know if it was a good week, but quiet aviation news-wise, there
1:30.1	was some headlining stuff, but I went to Boston and back in one day, and it was fine,
1:34.9	and nothing happened. Everything was early. Therefore, everything else in the world must have
1:39.0	also been fine. That's quite the extrapolation. I appreciate that from you. Yes, I'll take it.
1:45.9	So let's basically pick up where we left off last week, where we kind of explained the
1:52.8	massive influx of tanker and transport aircraft from the United States into bases in
2:00.3	Europe and the Middle East, we left off saying,
2:03.3	hopefully this is just some posturing. And it turned out that that wasn't, in fact, the case.
2:09.5	The U.S. on the 21st of June conducted an attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities using a contingent of B2 bombers,
2:23.4	fighter escorts, and quote dozens of tanker aircraft. Those aircraft, the B2s, that is, departed
2:30.7	Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, flew east and dropped the massive
2:37.7	ordinance penetrator, the 30,000-pound world's largest bomb on three nuclear sites and
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