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An Air India Boeing 787 landed in Birmingham with the RAT deployed
airlive.net ^ | October 05, 2025 | Contributors

Posted on 10/06/2025 7:32:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/06/2025 7:32:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

Aviation Ping!.............RAT Deployment?.............


2 posted on 10/06/2025 7:32:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Ah, the joys of allowing software in the cockpit.
Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.
And we still have no updates on that 787 crash in India...


3 posted on 10/06/2025 7:36:02 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Red Badger

The best way to solve RAT deployment is to deploy the SNAKE.


4 posted on 10/06/2025 7:36:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Red Badger

Bad joke about US Democrats on board in 3, 2, 1...


5 posted on 10/06/2025 7:37:03 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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To: Red Badger

Deploying the RAT!


6 posted on 10/06/2025 7:37:18 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Da Coyote

And we still have no updates on that 787 crash in India...


I thought the resolution on that one was pretty clear.


7 posted on 10/06/2025 7:37:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: rlmorel

This would have been a great gag for the movie Airplane.


8 posted on 10/06/2025 7:38:07 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Da Coyote

50-50 Software “glitch” or cockpit error. The fly data recorder should resolve the issue. Far better to have an occasional unnecessary deployment than miss one necessary deployment.


9 posted on 10/06/2025 7:39:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: Red Badger
That's the second such incident involving a 787....and both were with Air India. The earlier one involved that ugly crash a few months ago. Long story short: the plane that crashed was described as being very poorly maintained and I think we can assume the same is true with this one.

I've never flown Air India but I have *been* to India and to call it "Third World" is to give those words a whole new meaning.

10 posted on 10/06/2025 7:40:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Red Badger

The title is very misleading. It suggested a rat (democrat) was deployed (thrown out) while in flight. Until I read it, I thought it was a good news story.


11 posted on 10/06/2025 7:41:02 AM PDT by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: asinclair

That’s how it read to me. Democrat rat


12 posted on 10/06/2025 7:41:26 AM PDT by albie
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To: Red Badger
This is what the RAT looks like, and wouldn't have affected the landing in any way. It is small enough to clear the runway.


13 posted on 10/06/2025 7:41:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: asinclair
Bad joke about US Democrats on board in 3, 2, 1...

LOL I thought at first it was a story about Birmingham, AL and Democrats greeting H1B's from India LOL

14 posted on 10/06/2025 7:41:42 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Da Coyote
And we still have no updates on that 787 crash in India...

Yeah, it's a mystery why both engines quit after the fuel cutoff switches were intentionally thrown...

15 posted on 10/06/2025 7:42:55 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure the maintenance on an Air India 787 is nothing but “top notch”.


17 posted on 10/06/2025 7:46:07 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Red Badger

I recall as a Plane Captain, when preparing to launch, we had to signal the pilot to verify that the RAT would deploy before completing our checklist and sending them to the catapult...I believe the hand signal was to place the closed fist on the shoulder with the elbow pointing to your side (as if showing your flexed bicep to someone standing in front of you) then straightening the arm directly to your side in the horizontal position with the palm of the closed fist facing up to mimic the RAM Deploying.

Then you would give a thumbs up, and retract your arm back to the original position with the fist on the shoulder, and you would watch it to ensure it fully retracted, then give another thumbs up.

I get it confused in my mind with the pre-flight signal (it has been so long I am not sure anymore) to deploy the inflight refueling probe which was to place your closed right fist on your left chest near your left shoulder, and in a sweeping motion to mimic the inflight refueling probe deploying, unfold and extend your arm in the horizontal plane until it is fully horizontal to your right side with the palm of the still closed fist facing to your front.

When the probe is fully extended, you give a thumbs up, and then reverse the motion to put your right fist on your left breast/shoulder, and when it fully retracts, you give another thumbs up and go on to your next item to check.

Funny. For me, I went for decades where I could still do the 16 count manual of arms from memory, but I can’t do it anymore. Same for the Plane Captain preflight check routine. It is all hazy now...:)


18 posted on 10/06/2025 7:51:41 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Da Coyote
And we still have no updates on that 787 crash in India...

Preliminary report indicates that the Captain intentionally crashed it. Suicide.

19 posted on 10/06/2025 7:52:04 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Red Badger

🤔🤔🤔


20 posted on 10/06/2025 7:54:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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