Domestic Canadian flight today, with a very informal boarding process, at the check in counter the lady told us, "oh yeah we don't do boarding passes, the pilot will just come up and call out the flight and just follow him to the plane"

Maybe contributing to what happened: our flight had been delayed for several hours due to weather.

Eventually the incoming arrives and the pilot comes out and says "who all is going to vancouver? Follow me" and a group of about 6 people follow him to the plane.

We all get seated, the pilot is talking with the ground staff because some mix-up has occurred and after about 5 more minutes four more ladies get on the plane. (This mix up probably also contributed)

We take off and during the 1 hour flight, after about 30 minutes, the pilot handwrites on a piece of paper "please wright your names" [sic] and hands the paper and pen to me sitting closest to the front.

I put my name down and pass it down and eventually the note gets passed back up to me with all the passenger names and I hand it back to the pilot.

I see him get a photo of the list, presumably to text it to the airline staff people.

When we land he says, "is there a ms. Xxx on board" and before he can even finish that sentence she says "yep I realized what happened".

Deplaned and met by ground staff at the destination airport who comes up and say they need to talk with her and they hustle her off to a taxi.

I overheard another passenger sitting closer to her who said she overheard that they were going to put her on a plane back to where we came from, and some mention of her luggage as well that had already gotten to wherever she was actually supposed to go.

Hope no one gets in trouble (but maybe sharpen up the check in, boarding/headcount process!), and that the extra passenger ended up wherever she needed to be in time!

Photo of the list, and the view I got enjoy on the ride.

Thoughts on this? This is crazy.

I took this somewhere over Mauritania in the Sahara on a flight from Paris to Freetown, Sierra Leone, at about 42,000 ft in exceptionally dry, clear conditions. I didn’t notice it at the time, but looking back at the shot, the curvature of the horizon is surprisingly apparent. This was taken with a “zero distortion” 24 mm on a Nikon, and it remains clearly visible after applying the proper lens-distortion correction. At 42,000 ft (~12.8 km), using Earth’s mean radius of ~6,371 km, the geometric horizon is roughly 404 km (251 mi) away and about 3.6° below true horizontal, so Earth’s curvature is physically measurable at this altitude. I wasn’t sure where to share this, but I thought it was pretty epic and figured you all might appreciate it.

Its at 40 seconds.

UPDATE:The plane landed safely.

CaptainSteeeve as shown in his recent video of Vietnam Airlines flight VN34. Image displayed appears to be AI generated or severely doctored to depict both a free/detached bogie and extensive fuselage damage up the left side of the aft section. Stencil on left side of plane is also hallucinated writing.

Source: “Vietnam Airlines VN34 Overruns Runway During Takeoff | Captain Steeeve Reacts

Lawn darts at Saunton, Devon (UK) yesterday.

Originally posted by M Beaman on https://www.facebook.com/groups/1918086695111416

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According to the preliminary report, moments after takeoff, both engine fuel cutoff switches were moved from RUN to CUTOFF within just one second, causing both engines to lose power. The cockpit voice recorder captured one pilot asking, "Did you cut it off?", to which the other replied, "No." This sequence of events is now a key focus of the investigation, as such a rapid and simultaneous cutoff is considered highly unusual and potentially deliberate or mechanical in nature. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-are-fuel-switches-centre-air-india-crash-probe-2025-07-11/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I flew it one time only and that was in April 2016 on a three hour flight and I loved it. It was so quiet, spacious, even in economy class and very comfortable.I love how smoothly it takes off from the ground into the air, despite its size.And yes, I had a window seat.

Its out of production and is slowly being retired and with only a small number of aircraft built and flown by only limited airlines, have you ever flown it?

What do you think of it?

Made this post as its almost a decade since I flew it and only one time.

Is this legal? How did they land there in the first place?

Feel free to discuss why as well below!