tomazbodner

I am not living in Isaan and have no plans to, but... 2 weeks back I flew to Ubon, and continued to Yasothon by road. Although it's green around my place in Bangkok (thank you Government for turning every unsold plot of land into a banana plantation!), I was glued to the window on the road. That screaming green colour of the rice fields with a bit darker trees here and there on the middle of them was just beautiful under the vivid blue sky and a couple of scattered puffy clouds around. The event I went for had lots of very loud and easily entertained local people involved. Yasothon is all about temples, it seems. But people were incredibly kind and friendly. So yes, while there wasn't really anything to do in that place, that views out the window and how nice the locals were is definitely making me want to go back many more times, at least at this time of the year. But would I really want to live there? Not so sure.

It's a welcoming destination for folks who aren't puffing, vaping drunks, hooking up with ladyboys at 2 am...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-just-changed-the-internet-and-its-bad-new-for-the-ai-giants/

Exactly.

Well... Stormy Daniels was paid for silence...

Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to testify about the list, which she has a "copy" of. I have a feeling that she'll commit a suicide the day before testifying in the missing 61 seconds of prison video pointed at her cell door...

Now I get that other hoses joke! 😄

In front of ATM machine. 5000 THB a puff. A real money making machine for the police.

That's a LOT!

Who cares. Trump also cites stupidity as National Security issue to slap tariffs on others.

Apologies. What I meant was - if that was done over the ocean, for example, the wreckage might never be found and it could never be determined what has happened. But if you do it so close to airport, yes, there's a big fireball (although had they had a few 100ft more altitude, they might actually pull out of that after restarting the engines), but the recorders on the plane would make it quite clear who has done what, which would bring a lot of shame to pilot's family. Then again, I'm not a psychiatrist nor know about captain's mental state (assuming it was first officer flying as was reported) to know whether he's capable of something like that...

Was thinking of the same and remember some years ago when this topic came up and there was a serious discussion about mounting them on... Can't remember which crash that has followed but the CVRs weren't clear on who did what... then it was compared to Virgin Galactic where copilot accidentally moved something and the whole "plane" broke apart - captured on camera in cockpit. Well, from MentourNow video linked above, this topic will be discussed in video that's getting released on Monday. Maybe that provides answers.

I watched Petter's video (MentourNow) listed above - I watched his videos in the past... and partially agree with him and Ben who cohosted that session... Locking mechanism is simply supposed to prevent moving the switches without pulling them out during the movement. Ben said that rules state that from rotation the hands are supposed to be on the yoke, nowhere near the thrust levers. But this is an assumption that both pilots actually followed the rules. It could be that hand was left on the levers longer and when moving the hand off them flipped the switches accidentally, and if both switches had locking mechanism broken (this plane was one of the first off the production line of 787) it would be potentially plausible. But seems if that isn't the case, this looks deliberate. But why would you do something like that in the middle of the take-off? Surely if someone was going to crash the plane that would be done over the sea or in hard to reach mountainous area, with fuse for recorders pulled? Look at EgyptAir and Eurowings, SilkAir... it would just be a very strange stage of flight to do something like this deliberately...

The flight and voice recorders seemed quite definitive but this is not something you can easily do by mistake. You'd need to put quite a bit of force to pull out the stick and move it to cut-of position. There are also metal brackets on the sides that prevent you from accidentally touching it - which was an issue on older planes where the stick could just be moved without pulling it out first and was a physical rather than electronic switch. Pilot also said he didn't move it when asked. And there would be no reason for anyone to touch those switches in flight. They are to start/shut down engines, so generally only touched on the taxiway and at the gate, except in case of engine fire or detachment, etc. Had this been older plane like 737-800, yes, it was possible to leave switches in position where vibration could accidentally move them to cut-off but not on 787. Some serious questions. How could pilot switch (which is, if you have a manual car, equate to unknowingly pulling up the gear shift stick and moving it to reverse position) to cut-off without realising it, or, does the engine controller have the ability to physically move the switch on its own? If the latter, there would be a deadly flaw in Dreamliner engine fuel control system. If this was pilot error... I just can't see how this could be accidental. It borders on impossible.

About time to cite safety concerns after Air India disaster and cancel that Dreamliner orders for Thai Airways.