Elle

I just read this, not sure where to post it in this Forum, so if it's in the wrong place please move....


JETSTAR MISHAP AT SYDNEY AIRPORT
22.6.2004. 09:16:10



More than 100 Jetstar passengers have spent the night on the Gold Coast after a mishap on the tarmac at Sydney Airport.

Jetstar's flight 552 from Sydney to Coolangatta was cancelled when the cabin door was ripped from the plane as it tried to depart the terminal.

Passengers were flown to Brisbane or the Gold Coast on other services, but the scheduled return trip to Sydney was cancelled.

Jetstar's Corporate Relations Manager Simon Westaway says the incident is being investigated.


SOURCE: Radio News

Qwannas

Did it go something like this?


Capt: "Cabin crew, arm doors and cross check"

Ditzy: ".......should have seen me on the weekend! Dance!! I never left the floor. But, god I was FABULOUS!"

Mr Seatback: "Ditz, did you hear something, then?"

Ditzy: "Nuh! How does my hair look? Have I got spinach on my teeth? Could you do a booger check for me?"

Mr Seatback: "Hang on let me finish reading my Stars...."

Captain starts to push back and then.....

RRRRRRRRRrrrrippp! Said door peels off. Whoops.

Mr Seatback: "Do you think we should write that up?"

Ditzy: "Darls, Narelle wont be happy about this! There's going to be a company memo - I can just tell!!"

rotaryman

LMFAOLMFAO

Damm those driverless push back tugs,,,could it have been???

sinala1

ROFL @ Qwannas!!!

Is anyone able to shed some factual information on this? Paper was pretty sketchy (gee there's something new for a change!)

SkySista

What the..? Am trying to figure out how the hell someone could do that... will have to wait for the facts I suppose... ruins a good story though, Qwannas Best laugh I've had tonight! I don't know Ditzy personally, but it seems to fit with his style eh??

I'm curious as to these tugs as well, since I have not seen one. How do they work? I'm assuming they just attach to the gear and run on remote...? anyone? (pictures would be nice)

Sky

Mr Seatback 2

Qwannas

You are TOO MUCH girl!

QF skywalker

MR S2,

If you think "Qwannas" is a character on PPRuNe , then just try flying with her ! The "Judith Lucy" impersonations on the PA are enough to make you go "red" to say the least.

As for the JQ door "bungle" ( god love madga subanski ) all I can is.....whooops.

QF SKY.

sinala1

The latest I heard re the door incident is as follows (I am not portraying this as fact by the way, this is what I have heard - can anyone from JQ confirm/clarify?):

2 aircraft on side-by-side gates, aircraft A finished boarding ready for pushback, aircraft B still in process of boarding... Engineer at aircraft A picks up remote control for pushback tug and commences pushback procedure, but it turns out he/she has picked up the remote control for the tug on aircraft B? Hence aircraft B commences to move backwards...

I questioned this with some pilot mates of mine, as I would have thought that the aircraft's brakes would have been parked, which would have prevented aircraft B from moving backwards. They told me that the a/c taxi's in to the gate, parks brakes, chocks go in, engineer tells captain to release brakes (this allows brakes to cool down). If there is a change of tech crew, the ongoing tech crew do a scan of instruments when they first get in, and this scan includes re-parking the aircraft brakes. So the only conclusion I could come up with is that the brakes had not yet been re-parked?

Any techies out there got any feedback on this?

ditzyboy

Qwannas -
That's hilarous. Sadly, closer to the truth than one might think!

sinala1 -
That's about it. I would have thought that sort of problem would be identified early on. Other airlines throughout the world use 'PowerPush' or whatever those things are. Surely there must have been other incidents or risk assesements done???

SkySista -
They attach to the left main gear and provide the power. The tech crew steer the a/c under guidence. When the device is finished it returns to its 'home' position automatically (and VERY quickly!).

As technologically advanced as the remote things are... It's like doing the safety demo in a shopping trolley! You just never know when it will turn or stop and how sudden the stop will be. I have bonded with overhead bins and bulkheads more times than I care to remember!

galley-wench22

Check this out! This is a Spanair A320 at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/558386/L/

Miss Pam Ann

Sinala1...pretty much sums it up accurately...wrong remote was used on the ground.
Media made a HUGE THING of it...the aircraft was back in service the next day, after a few bumps and scratches to the inside of the door and bustle....Captain was in F/D at the time and had to apply brakes quite harshly to prevent a/c from continuing forward. That's about it.

Miss Pam Ann xxx

"say hello to the clouds for me...."