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Flying on New Year's Day With A New Airline from Frankfurt to Athens!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Once on board, I noticed a cabin crew was serving champagne on a plastic cup and was pleasantly surprised I was given one, I suppose because of the occasion (New Year's Day). At this point we started our descent and we can feel the wind shaking our plane quite a bit especially at a lower altitude. That's a good idea!

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Dreamliner Crash in Ahmedabad: Air India flight 171

Fear of Landing

At Ahmedabad, 220 passengers boarded for the nine-hour flight to London manned by two flight crew and ten cabin crew. Today, the Flight Data Recorder was recovered, which, assuming it is readable, will give us the key metrics of the take off and the descent.

Runway 121
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Flying With Air China (Part 2: PEK-LHR A350-900)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Once again, an announcement from the flight crew was made but it was difficult to hear what he was saying as it sounded like another voice in the background (could be the other pilot talking to the ATC) and also the cabin crew made some important announcement including a reminder to us about the consequences if we fail to follow the rules.