Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Sooooo, what happened here? The tug has disconnected, but the aircraft is taxiing with the tow-bar still connected? (no beacon showing).
Or the brakes were not set and the aircraft rolled forward out of control, with nobody on the flight deck?
If the aircraft had been towed to a remote stand, why were no chocks set before disconnecting the tug?
Nobody on a headset that I can see.
Basically was this:
The T7 had apu inop and no hyds and no brakes (no beacon on)
Two engineers inside...tried to brake but with no success at all.
Plane was being towed to spend the day till next evening return flt to Luanda.
After first pushback/towing segment the tractor/driver needed to change the tractor from "push" to "pull" doing the normal 180 off the plane for a few moments.
During this 180 manouver, and the T7 without apu and hyds, someone seems to forget to put some chocks during the tug/tractor removal for the 180 manouver.
And then here it goes.
By miracle it didn't hit a parked White Vip 319. One light pole hit by right wing.