I visited my favorite plane again, this time with my podcast cohost @ariadneinbizclass.bsky.social! (That's me on the right, Ari on the left, and the glorious An-2 in the background)

The T-rex is just me

New Mentour Pilot video by me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_7...

And my article is out! This case has fascinated me like few others. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/crucible-of-...

Soon™.

The draft article is done! The preliminary word count before final edits is 17,218 words. I'm expecting to release it tonight (Pacific time), so stay tuned!

14 pages written and I haven't gotten to the takeoff yet. Always a good sign

After finishing my translation of the report, Gazpromavia article is finally coming together. I'm expecting to release later this week. I'll provide a more precise ETA when possible.

Translation of the Gazpromavia report is complete! I will now be refining the translation while assembling the narrative and conducting additional research for an article to be released as soon as possible.

New Mentour Pilot video by yours truly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knoe...

Discovering my talents: Describing plane crashes: ✅ Installing curtains: ❌

New Mentour Pilot video that I wrote concurrently with my most recent article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzeQ...

Latest translation update is 208 out of 263 pages. And then I actually have to write it. But at least I won't have to spend as much time taking notes. :P

Translation of the Gazpromavia report is moving at a steady clip. I've translated 118 pages out of 263 so far at a pretty steady rate of 15 pages per day. Obviously I will release the English translated report for general consumption alongside my article.

My profile picture on all platforms (except this one) has been updated to this. If changing a picture you associated with me for 5 years has led to any mental anguish, physical ailment, cancer, etc, you may be entitled to compensation

New article is out! admiralcloudberg.medium.com/how-not-to-r...

The title of this article is going to be the sequel to 2023's "How Not to Fly a Plane": "How Not to Run an Airline"

New article should be dropping within 3 hours!

The text of the article has been finished. Visuals and assembly will be accomplished throughout Friday, 1 August, with upload in the late afternoon or evening.

The NTSB docket on the DC mid-air that was just released today is the largest I've ever seen. I don't have time to look through all of this right now but what I have seen is interesting. data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSB... Anyway, I'm still planning to release an article by August 1.

I think it's time for an update on my work. I'm currently working on no less than three articles simultaneously, of which one has reached the stage of writing the final draft. That one is a shorter article about a quite recent accident and it will be out before the end of the month!

New Mentour Pilot video written by me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li4k...

During a podcast episode last year I joked that the Linate runway collision could have been prevented if Italy never unified, and an Italian supporter of mine who I will not name angrily unsubbed because they believed I actually oppose the Italian Unification of 1848-1871. Idek what to tell them

Work has already begun on a new article about a crash that I won't disclose quite yet. More info soon?

Send love to my simultaneously very lucky and very unlucky Controlled Pod Into Terrain cohost Ariadne. 🫂

Always wonderful to wake up to lots of comments on my article only to find most of them are from one asshole who decided to nitpick everything I wrote while also being wrong on every single point.

It's the middle of the night if you live in my hemisphere, but it's here: the Birgenair-Aeroperú double feature, featuring my new analysis of the Birgenair flight data! admiralcloudberg.medium.com/insidious-tr...

Teaser.

Just got home! Right now I have some visuals, final assembly, and bibliography still to go. That will take a few hours and it will be a couple hours before I can start. So expect it either very late tonight (PST) or first thing tomorrow morning.

Just finished the draft article! Preliminary word count is ~20,000. Over 13,000 of that is dedicated to Birgenair, Aeroperú gets 5,400. When the article is published, you'll see why. Anyway, I expect it will be posted tomorrow evening PST, after SF Pride, which I refuse to miss!

In the meantime, a new Mentour Pilot video written by me just dropped! youtu.be/TQ09BnOl1d4?...

Friday night progress report: I've written 25 pages (about 14k words), most of which is about Birgenair 301. I plan to say much less about Aeroperú 603 because there's less info to work from, and unlike Birgenair I won't need to dive into why half of that info is flat out wrong... ETA Sunday.

This seems credible, coming from Jon Ostrower. I've also had people with knowledge of China confirm that the official statement does cite the actual relevant national security legislation. Not 100% verifiable, but in line with what I sadly expected.

Very important public service announcement from The Air Current. theaircurrent.com/commentary/a...

If all goes to plan, I should have my Birgenair-Aeroperú article up on Saturday. Failing that, Sunday, but almost certainly not later than that!

I'm currently well into writing the final text of the Birgenair-Aeroperú article while simultaneously working on more scripts for Mentour Pilot. Priority changes from one day to the next. I'll obviously let everyone know when I have an ETA.

One thing I'm seeing is a lot of "experts" going on TV and telling viewers that the flaps "obviously" were not extended. This is highly misleading. Flaps 5 (that is, 5˚) is a standard takeoff config in the 787 and in the footage it is not possible to tell the difference between flaps 5 and flaps up.

I missed the breaking news of the crash of Air India flight 171 because I was asleep. Obviously a huge deal as the first loss of a 787 and the deadliest commercial crash in at least 11 years. I will post updates here once info becomes known; all I see right now is baseless speculation.

My research into Birgenair flight 301 is wrapping up, and despite discovering some new facts that I haven't seen discussed previously, the total amount of info is limited enough that I've decided to include analysis of the related crash of Aeroperú flight 603 in this article too.

This is a post outside my normal purview, but I have a friend (22F, trans, with autism and ADHD) who is in desperate need of help in the Seattle area. She's homeless, couchsurfing, and can't go back to her hometown for several reasons. Giving her money hasn't helped... (1/5)

Time for an update! Over the past 9 days, I was driving across the entire US with my housemate and her dog, as the final stage of the move-in process. Next up, I'm planning to revisit Birgenair flight 301—that's the crash caused by wasps—while continuing to translate the Pulkovo 612 report. 1/3

New Mentour Pilot video written by me! youtu.be/uEKxhNQmmKU?...

After six years of investigating and over a month of research and writing, it's finally time to tell the story of Aeroflot flight 1492, and the plane, pilot, and airline that came together to cause it. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/trial-by-fir...

Article ETA: About 3 hours, 4 if I feel like getting food

My Aeroflot 1492 article is finished, clocking in at a preliminary 30,222 words, just barely overtaking KAL 007 to become my longest ever. Tomorrow I will review, arrange visuals/bibliography, compile, and upload. I expect that to take all day for an evening release (reminder: I'm on US Pacific)

While you wait for my Aeroflot 1492 article, which again will be published tomorrow, check out the Mentour Pilot video written by me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qohu...

Up to 24,848 words as of tonight. I'm on the home stretch now. Release on Monday for sure. I've moved the goalposts like 3 times but I swear this one's for real

You know things are getting serious when I put away the sour gummy worms and break out the weird off brand stuff. I expect to have consumed a record amount of sour candy before I’m done with this article. Current word count: 14,841.

I've written 15 pages of the Aeroflot 1492 article and I'm still not past the point of the lightning strike.