AvTalk episode covers flydubai 1073 probe, NTSB 767 overrun report

A podcast episode has gathered a set of current aviation safety and industry items, led by an update on the investigation into flydubai flight 1073. The episode covers the state of that inquiry, the captain's recovery, and questions about future aviation safety.

The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report on a 21 Air Boeing 767 runway overrun in Miami, which occurred last month, is also discussed.

Among the other items: Houthi warnings to airlines against using Saudi Arabian airspace, with disruption reported around Riyadh, and the continued use by airlines of decade-old software to work around glitches in the Boeing 737. The episode also touches on 737 MAX software problems, certification delays, and the workarounds carriers have adopted.

Commercial and fleet topics are part of the rundown as well. Biman Bangladesh is described as being on a buying spree, Norse is cutting its transatlantic network further and shifting capacity to Thailand, and British Airways' A380 is set to have what the episode calls the world's largest business class cabin. JetBlue is to receive Spirit's LaGuardia slots under certain conditions, with separate discussion of its flights that disappeared and reappeared from booking systems. airBaltic is undergoing restructuring with proposed workforce cuts.

Further items include plans for Lufthansa's final A340-600 flight, Widerøe's extension of its Dash 8 fleet life through 2035, KLM's first A350 and the wait for business class seat approval, and scrutiny of the Korean Air–Asiana merger, including a call for more seats at Jeju. The episode ends with lighter segments on a hot-air balloon landing behind a Delta flight in Albuquerque.