AvTalk Episode 341: Dry Clean Only

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4.8 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Russian president Vladimir Putin admits Russian air defenses damaged Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 before it crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan. American Airlines unveils its centennial logo ahead of its 100th anniversary next year. More than half of Finnair’s A321 fleet is currently undergoing inspections after the seat covers were washed with water. And there’s money behind a bid to revive Pan Am, with a plan for a hub in Miami.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Data on J28243’s crash in Aktau
* American Airlines’ newest special livery retro jet, N735AT
* IATA’s Mark Searle WSOC speech on safety
* Finnair’s water woes
* Boeing’s new electronic standard for parts authentication

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 341 of AvTalk.
0:12.5	I am Ian Petchnik here, as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:17.4	How's it going, Ian?
0:18.9	It's going, Jason.
0:20.3	It is going. We've made it to the middle
0:22.5	of the week. It is podcast time. And boy, do we have a lot to talk about. Even though it feels like
0:29.3	it's been, well, I take that back. I understand why, because we had, the kids had Monday off.
0:34.6	So it's kind of a strange week anytime the schedule gets thrown off. But
0:39.4	it also feels like not much has happened and yet there's a whole bunch that has happened.
0:44.5	That's kind of my favorite week. When nothing huge happens but just a bunch of little
0:49.3	mostly harmless innocuous things. Yeah. Oh yeah, that happened. All right. Yeah. That's fine.
0:55.0	That's fine.
0:55.9	Well, let's start the show with some surprising news.
0:58.7	Late last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, hey, yeah, that was us.
1:05.7	Sorry about that.
1:07.6	He was talking about the not shootdown, but severe damage to the Azerbaijan Airlines E-190 that
1:18.9	eventually crashed an Aktau Kazakhstan.
1:23.1	This was the first time that Putin had acknowledged what was widely assumed to have been the case.
1:31.8	He said, we didn't shoot it down. We just shot at it, and the missiles happened to explode
1:37.6	near the airplane. Sorry about that. And then the official English translation says that they're studying everything that
1:46.8	has happened to provide an objective assessment and that, quote, it will probably take
1:51.9	some more time to finally put an end to this.
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