AvTalk Episode 327: Overrun by squirrels

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Indian investigators have downloaded the data from AI171’s recorders. Chinese authorities decline to release a report on China Southern flight 5735, citing threats to “national security and social stability.” A report on the Heathrow power station fire makes clear that it should have never happened. And a US Air Force base is being overrun by squirrels… again.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 data and report announcement
* BBC summary of Heathrow transformer fire report
* Mexicana’s first E195-E2
* EASA’s take-off performance monitoring system (TOPMS) proposal
* Task & Purpose’s piece on squirrels at Minot Air Force Base

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 327 of AvTalk.
0:12.4	I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:17.1	Hello, Ian.
0:17.8	What's going on?
0:18.6	Hello, Jason.
0:19.4	Not as much as there has been, which is
0:21.5	frankly, very welcome. That's good, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I've been able to catch up on things
0:28.0	that I've been not necessarily putting off, just haven't been able to get to for a few weeks.
0:35.6	So that's a welcome change. But also for me, it's been a nice couple
0:39.5	days. We got details about cranky Dork Fest and Elliot. First, congrats if you managed to
0:47.3	grab a block room at the hotel. It went like that. If your name is Jeremy Dwyer Lindgren,
0:53.3	and if you're listening, you missed out because you're on the West Coast. Sorry about that.
0:56.8	I grabbed the room. So that's all that matters. Yeah, an extra punch. Not an extra full sandwich, an extra punch card.
1:03.5	Oh, okay. A punch on the punch card. I can't go to a full sandwich, but I booked some other stuff. I booked an easy jet flight today. I booked a smart wings flight
1:11.9	today. Booked a French B flight the other day. North Atlantic flight the other day. So stuff is
1:19.5	getting interesting. So let's talk about cranky and Dorkfest because hopefully a bunch of you
1:25.3	can join us again this year. Jason's going this year, so I'm looking
1:28.4	forward to that. We'll have some of our other friends there as well, so it's shaping up to be
1:33.4	a good one. Cranky Dorkfest slash Spot LAX with NYC Aviation is once again, the second weekend
1:41.6	is September. So we've got Saturday, September 13th will be
1:47.0	the cranky dorkfest, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ish. It just kind of goes until it's done. We'll
1:54.9	have all sorts of raffle prizes and things like that like we always do but Brett is doing it differently this year
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