The Java Gods are angry!

Best weather app is flightplan mobile. Free in google app store. It has a radar feature in route weather where it actually draws a line between departure and arrival airports.

If you have flown a rotation that paid via the 4:30 min calender day, check your time card. For some reason, when they close out they are short 1 minute per day. The company knows about it but they don't seem to be correcting it automatically.

Roadie and Howgozit, thanks for the app info. BB, not sure which version I've got, the phone is an HTC EVO, about two years old.

A dinosaur, I know.

But I'm a caveman, so it all works out!

I also hope that the accident receives a complete investigation. I know it will be looked into, but I'd hate to see anything relevant to future safety be overlooked because of the location and, let's be honest, the lack of public interest/urgency of a small cargo operator.

Does something like this get a full FAA/NTSB/ALPA-Safety/Manufacturer investigation?

I want to know who loaded it and who checked the locks and tiedowns.

Me too. And also what is being done to prevent something like that in the future. There is zero excuse for something like this. If straps can break, mandate stronger/more straps and regardless we obviously need a better system of verifying it was done right.

Yes, even in foreign countries. NTSB will not be running the investigation however.

Edit... not sure who has Operational Control when a US civilian carrier is involved in an incident on a US Military airfield on foreign soil.

Yes .

A US Military base is typically US jurisdiction. Unless there is a political ax to grind, foreign governments are pretty happy to sit back and let others perform the work and undertake the expense of accident investigation for them.

That's not to say foreign governments wont try to make some money off someone else's misfortune. We had a biz jet stuck in Mexico last month that a few of our pilots might have seen sitting off the taxiway partially covered by a tent. The Mexicans refused to allow any of the US manufacturer's employees / safety / engineering / mechanics to help without obtaining various work permits and authorizations. Then there can be environmental impact claims (which gets amusing when the locals cart off all the wreckage before your salvage team can get on site) the fuel, particularly avgas, mostly burns or evaporates.

Has anyone evaluated the impact on aviation safety?