AvTalk Episode 340: Four engines for podcast
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Similar to last time the US federal government shut down, focus is on the actions of air traffic controllers. While ATC work slowdowns are widely credited with ending the previous shutdown, there’s reason to believe the situation is different this time around.
An Air India 787’s ram air turbine deployed on approach to Birmingham, even though the jet’s engines were functioning normally. The Federation of Indian Pilots is calling for inspection of all Indian 787s as some commentators attempt to draw parallels to the crash of AI171.
Spirit Airlines is asking the court for approval to reject 87 more aircraft leases. The rejections, which would take place by the end of the month, would take the airline out of the A320neo family of aircraft entirely.
And the Airbus A320 family has just passed the 737 as the highest selling aircraft of all time.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* CRJs collide in New York — data and video of the collision
* FAA National Airspace status page
* Air India RAT deployment flight
* Airbus A320 family vs Boeing 737 family operations, 2018-2025
* JetBlue’s new special “Isla del Bluencanto” special Puerto Rican heritage livery
* JSX “retro” livery
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 340 of AvTock. |
| 0:12.4 | I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with. |
| 0:15.8 | Jason Urbittowitz. |
| 0:16.7 | Hello, Ian. |
| 0:17.3 | How are you? |
| 0:18.3 | I'm well, Jason. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to episode 340. |
| 0:21.9 | The catch-all for the Airbus A340 family, because we just haven't penciled in which version of the 340 we're going to operate yet. |
| 0:29.4 | So we're just going to tell passengers, it'll be a 340 at some sort. |
| 0:32.7 | It could be something fun like the 200. |
| 0:36.2 | Could be something terrible like the 300. Could be something terrible like the 300. Could be the 500. |
| 0:40.7 | A rare one. There we go. We're going ultra long haul. I miss those. We'll figure that out over the next |
| 0:48.8 | couple weeks and decide on which one we're really going to think is the special one. This is actually how airlines work. |
| 0:56.0 | This is true. |
| 0:57.3 | We have a very busy week to talk about this week, unfortunately. |
| 1:03.1 | Some of the stuff is good and interesting and moving in the right direction. |
| 1:07.7 | Other things, it's only mostly bad. |
| 1:10.6 | There's still some good. Yeah, there's still some good. Other things... It's only mostly bad. There's still some good. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, there's still some good. Let's start in your backyard, LaGuardia Airport. |
| 1:19.7 | Ah, a place where only good things happen. Yes, as everyone knows, only good things happen at LaGuardia. So this week, or late last week after we recorded, two Endeavour Air, CRJ-900s operating on behalf of Delta Connection, decided that they were going to fuse metal at speeds low enough to thankfully not cause any serious injuries, |
| 1:47.5 | but fast enough to make a grinding, crunching sound. |
| 1:52.9 | And depart some critical aircraft parts on the taxiways, Algordia. |
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