Podcast episode covers ATC outages and aviation safety news roundup

An aviation podcast episode released this week looks at two air traffic control failures and rounds up industry news.

It covers an outage at a facility handling traffic in the northeastern United States that disrupted operations earlier in the week. It also takes up a technical report from the UK air navigation service provider on an outage affecting the London Control Area on 8 September. According to the report, a single millisecond separated normal operation from a scenario that led to around 2,000 flights being cancelled. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary also gave his views.

The episode examines a connectivity failure at Prestwick and how airlines responded, a government accountability office report on aviation communications security, and GPS problems affecting Embraer E2 aircraft, with Azul, Porter and other operators mentioned.

Other items include a power bank fire involving KLM aircraft and inconsistent carrier rules on batteries, airspace restrictions over Beijing covering a 600 km wide zone, and proposed safety improvements following a runway investigation at Nice.

On the commercial side, the show notes list a Turkish Airlines order for the 737 MAX, a new runway at Istanbul, a Boeing 777 freighter emissions waiver, 777X engine mid-seal durability and ETOPS certification, a Boeing engineering union contract, and an indefinite strike by Icelandair mechanics.

Further topics include JSX placing a deposit on the Heart Aerospace ES-36, the A321XLR wing becoming standard across A321neo models, and a Qantas Project Sunrise New York announcement.