“I flew on Aeromexico once. I had never heard a jet backfire until then.”
Did it do it in the air, or on startup? I understand they mix frijoles with the jet fuel! Last time I saw one of their planes, it was a clapped out old first-generation DC-9. I don’t fly foreign flag carriers any more, because you don’t really know if the crew knows how to actually hand-fly the airplane. This is particularly true with the two Korean airlines and it’s what lead to the Asiana “crash” at San Francisco a couple of years ago. The ILS was out and these a$$holes didn’t have the piloting skills to manually fly the approach. Crew: Wee Too Lo, Sum Ting Wong, Bang Ding Ow and Ho Lee $hit!
It was during take off.
Oh, I thought the fourth guy’s last name was Fuk. :-P