shear pin failure egbb
I heard that yesterday an aircraft went TEC during pushback at EGBB, the captain requested he be pulled back to stand, the nose of the aircraft was then seen to be bouncing up and down. The “shear pin” I think it’s called sheared and the aircraft continued towards the tug, a shout to the flight deck eventually brought things to a stop. I am curious as to what experiences others have of this type of incident and how common this type of failure is.