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NTSB preliminary report. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA26MA024.aspx

Holding the nose gear off? That’s easy to do, but is against the flight manual procedures in some aircraft.

There's an initial report out on this. Apparently #4 reverser was locked out, and they only used 2 & 3. That's normal. But, somehow or other, they've managed to push the #4 thrust lever up from idle, achieving 109%. That explains going off the runway, but how you push one lever to the stops...

ATC have given him a "roll through". Basically they've told him that he doesn' t need to be off the runway in a hurry, so he can be very gentle about slowing down. It's quite common, even on bigger aircraft, except that you don't really notice it on them. May not have needed any braking at all...

And that’s how people would read it too. “Window seat” means located next to a window. Now a “wall seat” would mean something else entirely.

There's no doubt that it's an overall rubbish system. But, having said that, it was never that hard to read through the ones relevant to your departure, unless they're Australian, in which case they've been known to refer to other notices that you aren't actually given. In particular, this...

I expect that the pilot sitting in the left seat was also a captain. They're carrying two, and one is nominated as being in overall charge.

That’s the entire point…the captain should have read both items himself. All of the pilots should individually gather all of the data necessary for the take off calculations, then they should be done completely separately, and only coming together when you have a final answer. That’s intended to...

A failure of the wing box would lead to the wings clapping. This seems a bit like the US Marine aircraft that was lost after a prop chopped its way through the fuselage. Nasty, no matter the cause.

Even more noteworthy, but neither crew selected TO/GA when they realised things looked wrong. In the case of MAS, the captain didn’t because “he didn’t want to startle the FO”. I suspect he would have been even more startled if they’d run into something.

From an MD-11 person, apparently the inhibit on the warnings that exists from V1 gets rid of the visuals, but not the fire bell. That's strange anyway, 'cos a bell going off without the associated lights would be confusing, which is why the inhibits exist in the first place.

I don't think that 2 people made the same error at all. I think that one person looked at the NOTAMs (maybe) and one person listened to the ATIS. The second person's error was in not getting the ATIS themselves. There's no point to working out the data separately (did they do that, I wonder), if...

OH&S….keep them as far from aviation as you can. The only safe aircraft, is, as we all know, one that doesn’t ever fly. Runway works happen all over the world, basically all of the time. Having a runway shortened is not at all unusual. The issue with Australia is that we have no equal length...

I agree that NOTAM information can be missed....but, there's no excuse for not having a good read of the paperwork for your departure airport, even if you leave everything else until later. My take on this is that reading of NOTAMS wasn't something they did at all. ATIS isn't that long, and it...

These are shockers, that I hadn't heard about before. https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-11/AO-2023-043%20Final.pdf

I prefer sneaking around in silence. Do a search for a YouTube channel called Growling Sidewinder.

Updating my sim.

The coughulative surface area of all the cars in the world would have to be many times that of all the aircraft...so it should be more likely to hit a car. It's not something I'm going to lose any sleep over.

It's a freight operation, so I expect that their schedules aren't quite as tight as passenger ops. And I can't imagine any short term maintenance work that could cause an engine to depart. I think it's a fair assumption to say that it happened as a result of the separation. It's unlikely to be...

It's not rare at all. You can pretty much guarantee seeing it when flying in the bigger cloud masses.