Fahad Naim
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✈ Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer I fix the planes you fly on. Professional insights on aircraft maintenance & aviation safety. Straight from the hangar
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He flew passengers HIGH… and still brought clean URINE just in CASE..... Malaysian co-pilot in uniform collects a bag that X-ray already flagged. Inside: 70,114 ecstasy tablets (~26 kg) + 4 g meth. He also had a bottle of urine ready to cheat the test. Tested positive for three drugs after flying passengers from KL. Crew lane is not a free pass. This one is next level.
Fahad Naim1,896,058 views • 1 month ago
These continuous tire marks on the Munich runway after VN-A867’s takeoff are hard to ignore.. That strongly suggests the brakes were clamping or not fully released during the takeoff roll... possible Electric Brake Actuator issue, partial seize, or unintended input. Every main brake also hit the max temperature (9.9) just 15 minutes after becoming airborne. That only happens when a lot of energy goes into the brakes during the roll. Investigation will confirm the exact cause, but the marks and the temperatures point clearly toward a brake issue during takeoff.
Fahad Naim411,368 views • 17 days ago
Yesterday Air New Zealand flight NZ272 from Brisbane encountered wind shear right at touchdown. After a brief runway contact, the crew promptly initiated a go-around per procedure and diverted safely to Christchurch. Wellington is renowned for challenging wind conditions due to its location between hills and harbor.
Fahad Naim1,885,010 views • 2 months ago
🚨Air India lost a 737 for 13 years like it’s a TV remote. Paid $120,000 to park it (more than many of us will earn in a lifetime). Now it’s being trucked to Bangalore to become a classroom. Imagine being the engineer who opens the door in 2025 and finds 2012 newspapers inside 💀 Greatest Indian aviation ghost story ever told. You can’t make this up.
Fahad Naim6,367,198 views • 9 months ago
Did you know the Boeing 787 has a smart little protection feature called Runway Hold on its electric brakes? It only works when the plane is almost stopped on the taxiway. If the pilot is pressing the brake pedal more than 20% and the wheels are turning slower than 2 knots, the system locks the brakes mechanically. These mechanical locks (called friction brakes) hold everything in place without using any electricity. That way the electric motors don’t have to keep working and won’t get hot. The system only starts using the electric motors again when the pilot moves the brake pedal by more than 10%. It’s the exact same lock that lets the parking brake stay on even after you switch the power off.
Fahad Naim227,153 views • 17 days ago
Qantas just showed their wild polar route for the new non-stop SYD-LHR A350 flights... heading north over the Pacific, up near the North Pole, then into London from the north for part of the year. Smart way to dodge the jet stream and optimize fuel. 19.5-21 hrs one way. This one’s gonna be next level. You taking a 20hr direct or prefer a stop? 📽️ Xrobau
Fahad Naim1,120,449 views • 2 months ago
Watch the thrust levers on a 787 just… move by themselves. That’s the Thrust Management Function doing an autothrottle servo test on the ground. Two independent servo motors under the quadrant are driving the levers so we can confirm the loop is healthy before the airplane goes anywhere. Boeing still moves the actual levers. When A/T is working in flight you see them creep forward or back as the system holds speed or sets thrust. Airbus does it the other way. Levers sit in a detent and the computers talk straight to the engines. Both philosophies work. One gives you a moving picture of what thrust is doing. The other keeps the hardware still.
Fahad Naim75,416 views • 6 days ago
Back in 2001, a South Korean military Chinook was lowering a huge Olympic torch sculpture onto Seoul's Olympic Bridge (from the '88 Games). Released the load, settled a bit too much... boom, rotors hit, helicopter snaps in half, crashes into the river. Three crew gone.
Fahad Naim2,942,347 views • 7 months ago
45 years ago... April 14, 1981...spacecraft with no engines glided down and touched down like a giant paper airplane on a dry lakebed in California. Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-1, the very first Shuttle mission, coming in hot over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. You see the chase planes, the perfect unpowered approach, wheels kissing Runway 23, and that massive dust cloud as it rolls out. Then the crew... John Young and Robert Crippen... stepping out after 54 hours and 36 orbits in space. This wasn’t just another rocket flight. Columbia proved the Shuttle could launch like a rocket, orbit like a spacecraft, and land like an airplane. Reusable hardware, real test pilots at the controls… it changed everything.The beginning of the Shuttle era in all its glory.
Fahad Naim1,574,787 views • 4 months ago
Never seen the wing do this in cruise before. 787 wing and the airflow over it looks completely different. Normally you only get that misty, glowing sheet during takeoff or landing when the angle of attack is high and the air is wet. In cruise the pressure drop is smoother and the air up here is usually bone dry, so this shouldn’t really show up. just rare to catch it this clearly once you’re already level. Looks unreal though.
Fahad Naim144,648 views • 14 days ago
Here's some real footage on the job showing exactly what we're talking about on a 787 nose gear. Watch how the downlock pin goes in the right spot, and check that plugged hole next to it from the AD.. Boeing had already flagged this and issued a Service Bulletin to install a plug/cover in the wrong hole. FAA made it mandatory with AD 2019-23-07. Newer jets like the Lufthansa one should have had that plug from the factory. Not sure exactly how the pin ended up in the wrong place or if it wasn't Installed/seated right during the gear cycle check...
Fahad Naim724,923 views • 2 months ago