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It's a rabbit hole of "what went wrong", if you don't have any real information. Assuming the landing was normal (well, normal for a 767), then you don't start with any heavy landing damage. The brakes are gently applied during wheel retraction, but that pressure will be released immediately...

I'd already saved enough points to get a trip when I retired, but the subsequent devaluations, and changes to sign on bonuses, as well as apparent scarcity of actual seats, make the effort pretty futile these days.

A comment that has come up, but for which there’s no verification, is that the tyres blew almost immediately after landing. The auto brake activates very quickly, but it does not normally command all that much braking. It tries for a deceleration rate, and most landings use it at the minimum...

The anti skid system requires approximately 800 extra metres for the landing calculation. 9,000' would probably still be okay, on a dry runway. The system normally provided individual protection to each wheel. There is a backup mode in which it works for wheel pairs across a bogie. I'm not...

Most of the time, we didn't even order. Stuff just came, and we eventually paid the bill. There were various theories as to how the bill was worked out, but $30 flag fall, and $30 per hour seemed to work. When Fatty was alive, it was even less possible to work out, and probably varied depending...

A heavy landing is not going to cause this. Or, if it did, the tyres won’t be the only thing broken. He’s burst all of the tyres, which is a good effort. They look to have been worn through, so brake lockup. Normally you’d expect the anti-skid to ensure you can’t do this, so for whatever...

Nobody has pork ribs at Fatties. You start with spring rolls. Nuclear chicken, sweet and sour pork, pepper prawns. Tsing tau.

Got one once from a hire mob in Melbourne. The annoying bit was that it was run up by one of their staff bringing the car over from another depot, and before I got it. They reversed it, but it was a pain getting them to admit that it can’t have been me as it was 30 minutes or so before they...

All sounds real to me.

I'd have a very good read of all of the paperwork for any airport that I hadn't been to before. Beyond that though, you read it off as you need it. Never action them from memory (though you do end up remembering the details of places you go to often enough).

Better to tell ATC. I expect they’d just get the 320 to roll forward a bit. UK ATC are helpful, in exactly the same way that JFK’s aren’t. His clearance would have been predicated on it, so I wouldn’t think so. It’s the normal clearance from that spot…

London, Heathrow. It’s normal to be cleared to line up behind the departing traffic, and there can be multiple taxiways all feeding on to the runway at the same time. There’s no hurry for arriving traffic. You just juggle your speed so that you don’t actually enter the runway before the other...

Stupid. Way too close.

Your example is pretty reasonable. It would require an assessment from engineers, the manufacturer, the regulator. Not something that happens quickly.

It won't be an MEL in that case. There is another level though. Called an "authority to proceed". It's something that's approved on a one off basis, and needs input from a number of areas, not just the local engineer. And the Captain is still has the final say. And they're very rare. I can...

You don't generally go straight to security. You speak to the local company agent. They'll have all of the necessary contacts. Very rare for things to elevate to this sort of level though. Perhaps certain nationalities, and football fans, are the most prone to it.....

Being unable to climb would result in a greater fuel burn, though it would be partially offset by a slower speed (automatically calculated by the FMC). At first glance I'd have expected enough fat in the fuel plan to cover this...perhaps not. The aircraft would have two airconditioning packs...

The US will always do their own thing, irrespective of the rest of the world.

Interesting flight path. It has descended from F350 early in the flight, and then maintained F310 for the vast majority of the remainder. It's generally not hard to get a climb in that part of the world, so that would imply that they didn't want it. It's not an emergency, as they had a number of...

Sensationalism, much. Or just ignorance. Flight with one or both winglets removed is allowed on pretty much everything that has them installed. There is a very slight fuel burn penalty.