AvTalk Episode 328: Lock the cat in the lav

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Indian investigators narrow the focus of their investigation on the crashed 787’s fuel cut off switches. Lufthansa has quite the week with a damaged A340 in need of an unpressurized transatlantic ferry flight, a diverted 747 in South America, and a loose cat locked in a lavatory. A young pilot flies to Antarctica without authorization, raising the ire of the Chilean government. A man is ingested by a Volotea A319 engine in Milan and the NTSB releases its preliminary report on the close call between a Delta A319 and a flight of T-38s in Washington DC.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* The Air Current’s report on the AI171 investigation
* Lufthansa A340 unpressurized transatlantic ferry flight
* Unauthorized flight to Antarctica
* Volotea flight in Milan
* NTSB Delta—T-38s preliminary report

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 328 of AvTalk.
0:12.0	I am Ian Petchnik here as always with.
0:15.5	Jason Rabinowitz.
0:16.9	Hello, Ian, how are you?
0:18.6	Hello, Jason.
0:19.6	I'm well.
0:20.6	I'm sitting at home still. And as it turns out, you are too.
0:25.1	I am. I didn't intend to be. But sometimes...
0:28.6	That's how things work out. Sometimes you plan to go places and you don't. And you're not all that
0:35.2	mad about it in the end. But in true av geek fashion,
0:38.9	I guess, you've been to two New York City airports this week and have not flown anywhere.
0:44.9	Yes. Well, one of those I never intended to fly anywhere. So 12 hours spent at the two airports,
0:50.6	I got on one plane, didn't go anywhere. But on Monday, I joined the new JFK
0:59.6	Terminal 1 for a tour of the still very much under construction terminal there. Also, a signing for
1:08.2	its newest airline tenant, which would be China Airlines, very excited about that,
1:13.2	of course. But we got a good old fashioned hard hat tour of the new under construction terminal.
1:17.5	And you can't say no to that, even if it is 95 degrees and 100% humidity out. And of course,
1:25.1	the HVAC isn't working because they haven't installed it yet.
1:28.0	But it was really nice. I think we're going to end up being weirdly happy with our airports
1:33.9	in their future state when all of a sudden done. There are two major terminals being built right now at JFK.
1:41.3	Terminal 6, which is an add-on to Terminal 5, I guess, kind of.
1:45.4	And the new Terminal 1, which completely replaces old Terminal 1, is also on the footprint of
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