AvTalk Episode 331: Stuck on the plane for 28 hours

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, what we learned from days two and three of the NTSB’s hearings on the midair collision at DCA. A Delta A330neo experiences severe turbulence, Boeing adds a new 777-9 to 777X test fleet, and Alaska Airlines unveils a new livery for its 787s. Plus, ANA retires the R2-D2 livery 787, the FAA releases proposed rules for beyond line of sight UAS operations, and Madagascar arrests two people over the transfer of a quintet of 777s to Iran.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Delta A330neo experiences turbulence
* Boeing’s fifth 777X flight test aircraft
* Cathay Pacific flights add up to 28 hours on a plane
* Alaska Airlines new 787 livery
* Nolinor’s “new” 737-200
* ANA retires R2-D2
* FAA NPRM for BVLOS UAS OPS
* 787 draws world’s largest self-portrait
* Wendover video on Scope Clause

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 331 of AvTalk.
0:12.2	I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:16.9	Hello, Ian.
0:18.0	What's up?
0:18.7	Hello, Jason.
0:19.8	Happy Wednesday.
0:24.0	I had to check like I didn't know what day it was because we record on a variety of days all the time all of them ending in Wednesday all of them
0:31.8	ending at Wednesday indeed we are here once again it is August 6th. And it is time for another episode.
0:41.0	I feel like we're in kind of that weird. It's still summer, but everyone's pretty much almost done with summer.
0:49.0	And I don't know if I speak for all parents, but I am ready for my children to go back to school. I mean,
0:55.3	maybe from a parental point of view, it feels like summer is over. But if you're in a business
1:01.0	professional setting, this is right smack dab in the middle of summer where it seems like
1:07.3	nobody on the continent of Europe works. So, you know, it's pretty, pretty slow right now,
1:12.9	and I'm okay with that. There's a Slack channel that we have for Flight Matter 24 staff plans.
1:20.1	And the number of staff plans listed increases when people are out of the office. There was a lot of scrolling today.
1:29.9	So certainly folks taking time off, but we're not off.
1:33.6	We're here.
1:34.4	So let's do the show.
1:36.9	We have some updates from day two and three of last week's three-day, 30 hours of testimony at the NTSB hearing
1:52.5	on the DCA mid-air collision. So we recorded last Wednesday, which allowed us to discuss what
1:58.8	we learned on day one. But then we have day two and day three.
2:05.9	So day two focused a lot on air traffic control aspects of the airspace, of DCA in particular, of how the Potomac Traccon facility and DCA
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