AvTalk Episode 347: Fatigue cracks, thrust levers, and sand ballast

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian is joined by aviation journalist Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren to discuss a trio of recently released preliminary accident reports.

* UPS flight 2976 — MD-11F crash on take off in Louisville

* Emergency Airworthiness Directive regarding MD-11s
* Emergency Airworthiness Directive regarding DC-10s

* United Airlines flight 1093 — impact with object at 36,000 feet
* airACT 747-400F runway excursion in Hong Kong

Plus, Jason reports in from Seoul, South Korea where he’s joined by Seth Miller. They chat about their very different methods of getting from the US to Seoul this week and Seth’s quest to achieve the JetBlue 25for25 prize.
Wishing all our listeners in the US a very happy Thanksgiving!
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 347 of AvTalk, a very special episode, because I am joined as sometimes with...
0:17.0	Jason Rabinowitz.
0:18.3	Wait a second.
0:20.1	That's not right.
0:22.1	Jeremy Dwyer Lindgren, welcome back to the show.
0:26.8	Jason is off in Seoul right now.
0:30.5	He'll be dialing in a little bit later in the program with a special Soul report from him and Seth Miller.
0:39.3	They're wandering around the city together or separately.
0:43.4	Who knows at this point?
0:44.7	But they'll have something to share about their travels and what's going on there a bit later in the show.
0:50.8	It's been so busy these past couple weeks with the Dubai Air Show and all the
0:57.1	order news and everything that happened there, as well as some time pressures on our end,
1:03.0	that we haven't had a chance to fully digest the preliminary reports that came out
1:08.5	regarding a few of the high-profile accidents,
1:12.4	unfortunately, in the last few months. So Jeremy has graciously agreed to join this episode
1:19.0	and we'll walk through what we know so far about the crash of the UPS MD 11 that occurred
1:27.4	earlier this month.
1:29.7	The impact at 36,000 feet between a United 737-8 max and what we now believe to be a weather
1:39.6	balloon, and the Cargo Air Act 747 runway excursion in Hong Kong.
1:48.0	First up, we'll start with the UPS crash in Louisville.
1:53.9	The NTSB released its preliminary report last week,
1:57.8	and as part of that preliminary report, they released a six image sequence from an on-airport
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