AvTalk Episode 335: the Plovdiv mystery
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Spirit Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than a year. Ryanair and the Spanish airports operator AENA are fighting, with Ryanair threatening to withdraw 1 million seats from Spain in the upcoming winter season.
And some good news for Embraer as the first E190-E2 goes to Australia and the E2 series wins certification in South Africa.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* Von der Leyen’s flight to Plovdiv
* ICAO assembly agenda
* Southwest begins flying with secondary barriers
* Spirit files for Chapter 11 protection again
* FAA BVLOS rules for drones
* Become the FAA’s prime integrator
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 335 of AvTalk. |
| 0:12.6 | I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz. |
| 0:17.3 | Hello, Ian. |
| 0:18.1 | What's up? |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, man, what a week already? Yeah. Wait till I tell you. |
| 0:23.6 | It's only Wednesday. Oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy. What else could happen before the podcast comes out? |
| 0:31.0 | Well, there's enough to talk about already midway through the week. And it's been an interesting one. And let's talk about the |
| 0:39.7 | big story, I guess, this week as far as aviation and navigation is concerned. The GPS jamming |
| 0:48.9 | or something that affected Oro-Slavandolian's aircraft or the aircraft that she was on. |
| 0:58.2 | The story, I think, has morphed from something happened to, based on some of the reporting that |
| 1:05.6 | we've seen that they were about to fall out of the sky at any moment to, it was fine. |
| 1:13.6 | That's a wide range of things and emotions. |
| 1:17.6 | It's all sorts of all over. |
| 1:20.6 | Here's what happened, not in a technical sense, but just in a storyline sense. So remind me first, who is this and where did this happen? |
| 1:31.3 | Sure. |
| 1:32.3 | So this happened in the Bulgarian city of Plovdid. |
| 1:39.3 | Ursula von der Leyen is the president of the European Commission. |
| 1:43.3 | So a, I guess, technically head of state. And |
| 1:48.7 | she was traveling to various areas that are part of the European Union's effort to assist Ukraine |
| 2:00.7 | in its war effort against Russia. They were flying from Warsaw |
| 2:06.1 | to Plavdiv, which is in central Bulgaria, to make a visit there. They were approaching the airport |
| 2:15.3 | and something happened. Something. Yes, that affected to the aircraft's ability |
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