AvTalk Episode 371: “So that started this on the wrong trajectory to begin with”

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this episode of AvTalk, we follow the NTSB’s thread as the agency holds two days of investigative hearings on the crash of UPS flight 2976, the MD-11 that crashed in Louisville after one of its engines separated from the wing. The FAA issues its first official response to the NTSB’S safety recommendations following the 2025 DCA mid-air collisions. And the NTSB calls for more realistic training of smoke in the cockpit scenarios after a 2023 incident.
A Croatia Airlines A220 suffers a runway excursion during a rejected takeoff in Split. Indian investigators will travel to Seattle in June to be present for tests of 787 fuel cutoff switches at Boeing’s Pacific Northwest facilities. And WestJet is under investigation for what passengers are calling a deceptive practice of swapping flights to airplanes undergoing maintenance before cancelling those flights to avoid paying compensation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 371 of AvTalk.
0:12.7	I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rapinoids.
0:18.0	Ian, welcome to Summer.
0:20.2	Welcome.
0:20.8	Oh, man. What a welcome, right? You know how I know it's summer. How do you know? I don't even have to judge by the disgustingly high temperature outside that you probably have in Chicago. I know we have here in New York. I know is following me all the way to Switzerland next week, super happy about that. But the New York
0:39.0	airports are in a state of absolute chaos. And it's not even just because of the sinkhole in
0:44.3	LaGuardia's runway 422. It's just because you know this weather. Not just because of the sinkhole.
0:50.8	The sinkhole doesn't help. It hurts. But because there's a cloud,
0:56.0	like 500 miles away. So four hour delays, it is what it is. That's how you know you're in summer.
1:02.1	It's chaos theory. A grasshopper in Ohio rubs its winks together and LaGuardia gets a sinkhole.
1:10.1	That's how it goes, right? I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
1:12.7	Don't know where exactly the sinkhole is because I see a lot of planes doing a lot of stuff at LaGuardia,
1:17.7	but it seems like they are avoiding falling into the hole, which is good. That's important.
1:22.7	Not taxing into the sinkhole is important and good. Yes.
1:27.9	Generally, good practice.
1:29.8	Yeah.
1:30.3	Well, good luck with all of that.
1:33.3	As Jason mentioned, he's off to Switzerland next week.
1:37.7	I'm off to Sweden next week.
1:40.4	Those are different countries.
1:42.6	I feel like I have to say that, probably not for our audience who is generally interested
1:47.3	in aviation, which usually goes along with a geographic interest.
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