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Old 25th Oct 2005, 00:33
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Capt Claret

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galleypower

I don't know how the following incident happened but it did.

Years ago a Mohawk was having some work done in the hangar at Bundy (YBUD), preparatory to a charter flight the next day. Engineers crawling about the outside and some in the flight deck.

One engineer was lying on his back on the F/O's seat, wedged under the instrument panel doing whatever. When he pulled himself out he knocked the undercarriage lever, which some how sprang to the up position and the U/C retracted leaveing one 7 or 8 tonne aircraft sitting on it's guts in the hangar floor.

The squat switches should have prevented the retraction but didn't.
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