In the news

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/25/man-arrested-after-pedestrians-hit-car-london-west-end

Not terror related, emphatically not terror. Though any act that injures people in a public space is terror imo

Those pedestrian terrorists hitting that poor car

Clearly using a car as a weapon. Charged with attempted murder.

Altercation in nightclub could mean he was pissed and / or high?

Yeah, saw the aftermath with closed roads of this on my ride into town earlier. Wasn’t much reported at the time so posted one of the few reports in the Vehicles as Weapons thread.

Road was closed in front of the windmill too so not sure if that’s where the initial issue happened or just something else that happened.

Looks like his paper round was on Jupiter.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/products/a-steel-fixed-gear-machine-is-the-only-bike-youll-ever-need-heres-why

Brother, what year is it?

The Observer did it better 17+ years ago.

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It’s 2007 and you are obsessed with small bits of anodised aluminium machined to close tolerances with ‘NJS’ stamped on them.

Bizarre 737 crash in South Korea. Everyone dead except for 2 with serious injuries. It's all on video. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-29/passenger-plane-crashes-at-muan-airport-in-south-korea/104769164

As usual the pprune forum is the place to go for informed analysis by pilots https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663324-jeju-737-800-crash-muan-airport-south-korea.html The short version is that the aircraft had a bird strike in one engine, attempted to land but did a go-around, then a 2nd attempt and landed quite fast but without gear or flaps down or thrust reversers. The aircraft slid almost the full length of the runway and didn't shed much speed. The consensus is that something calamitous must have been happening on the flight deck.

Holy fuck

Make the anodising blue and swap NJS for Tamiya and you have the the Tamiya RC world now.

As usual the pprune forum is the place to go for informed analysis by pilots

…as well as wild speculation by complete randoms. And it’s really difficult to tell who’s which on there sometimes.

The pilots are good at shutting down the randoms, especially when there are lots of deaths.

I'm a random, but lack of gear or flaps points towards catastrophic hydraulic failure.

As for the lack of thrust-reversers, even if it were possible to still operate the one on the remaining engine there are some obvious reasons why you wouldn't in the circumstances.

Awful business.

I don’t think it’s possible to say anything with confidence at the moment, it’s a really weird one.

That makes a lot of sense ^^

Edit: Also true ^

Boeing finishing the year strong.

The Norwegian crash same day for hydraulic failure on the same model of plane ?

Both 737-800, but very unlikely to be related. The Torp KLM seems to have had a burst tyre coincident with hydraulic problems on takeoff, the Jeju seems to have been triggered by a bird strike on approach, followed by unknown subsequent emergencies and/or human factors issues.

Just a coincidence that both suffered hydraulic failure I guess

It’s not been established (yet) that the Korean flight had a hydraulic failure, I don’t think?

The absence of undercarriage, flaps etc. could also be the result of a crew mishandling the aircraft due to some other emergency (dual engine failure, smoke or fire in the cockpit, complete electrical failure, crew incapacitation for example) taking up all of their capacity, leading to them rushing and missing the usual checks and cues. Or it could have been some other confluence of adverse circumstances.

Nobody's suggesting hydraulic failure in the 20 page pprune thread about the S. Korea crash. The gear could have been lowered manually but the crew didn't begin to attempt it. This vid by a 737 pilot is instructive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1r8dl4RqMw&t=1s

There's a new vid of the landing https://streamable.com/r5p6pu

Some of the sensible pilots at pprune have advanced a theory that one engine was out and the other one was out or nearly out. If that's what happened the pilots wouldn't want to lose altitude by dropping flaps and gear until they were certain they'd reach the runway. But at the crucial moment they were overwhelmed and didn't do it.

Huh.

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You realise this was almost 20yrs ago, right?