Beer Can Dreaming wrote... Better still......... they were taking VBQ (-700 with winglets) to/from the hangar in Melb the other day and managed to almost entirely remove one of the winglets with the hangar door!!! OOPs!!Now that VBQ is undergoing some major reconstruction, they have deemed suitable to take all the servicable perts off it and fix(?) the other aircraft.
I heard it this way...
1. Wasn't it the staging it colided with - not the hangar door?
2. Collision not realy blameable on the Engineers concerned. Either the hangar moved or it was managements fault - I think I know what the answer will be to that one.
3. It didn't do all that much damage (visually that is) to the winglet. Grazed one side of the vertical face and thereby exposed the subsurface. Probably will cost a bit for the patch (by HdH) though.
4. Sign going up on hangar door shortly will be "Pick-a-Part" as borrowing from dead a/c is tending to become a much loved (by DJ that is) piece of entertainment. QF are pretty expert at this practice too, though their a/c are usually in their hangar for longer so it doesn't cause too much interuption to their a/c (parts removed from) in maintenance schedule. Also QF do it as a last resort...!
5. Virgin people are sworn to secrecy (or be shot at dawn) and forbibben from saying anything - that is the domain of those nice people in PR