On this episode of Av Talk, the longest flight in the world is set to return soon, but with a few twists.

European regulators are moving forward with recertification of the 737 max,

and Cathay Pacific closes its Cathay Dragon subsidiary.

Hello and welcome to episode 96 of Avtoc I am Ian Petchnick here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz and hello Ian how are you in the I assume what is already the frosty bitter cold

wasteland of Chicago? It's still too warm out. I mean I'm I'm doing very well but it's still too warm out. We're in the the 60s today which is just unfortunate.

That's unfortunate. I know you're a winter person but yes I am a winter person I like 14 feet of snow on the ground and and bitter cold I like layers but it's nice there there's fall color I did some accidental plane spotting the other day, which is always fun.

And I had, for the first time in my entire life, I had a go-around happen on my head.

Oh, on your head.

Why are you in the way?

Well, fair enough.

So I've seen go-around happen before,

and this wasn't the coolest one I've ever seen because I didn't get to see much of it because the reason for the go-round was low visibility

But an A320 was coming into Land at O'Hare, and I was out hiking along a river trail that runs pretty close to O'Hare.

And on approach, everything sounded normal, everything sounded, I was like oh you know this airplane can't

really see anything because it was foggy and rainy that day and then all of a sudden

you I hear this you know this whining screaming A320. I was like, ooh, go around. And I pulled up the

app. I forget what it's called, flight something, and you know saw the saw the trail starting to climb away but that

was a really cool sound and it was a neo right that it made I don't think it was a

no oh it was a CEO, so definitely the extra loud spicy flavor.

Yes, exactly, you know, extra crispy. But they came around and then they successfully landed. So on my way back the other way,

I stopped as an Emirates Triple 7 was coming in and that was fun to just watch go over.

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