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Old 18th Nov 2008, 08:25
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Don't forget the time that the SIT tow and stow crew nearly took the wingtip off a -400 due to them shutting down all power and hydraulics before the body gear had a chance to lock in the straight forward position. This caused the aircraft to crab into the door of H96. Bugger

Or the time heavy maintenance was doing a reweigh in H271 and had the aircraft roll off the pads as they had set the brakes too many times before re-pressurising the accumulators. In this case it was good luck and not good management that saved the day.
The hangar doors were open to allow the tug access and this allowed the nose of the aircraft to roll through them rather than take them out.

The aircraft was stopped by an inadvertantly placed cargo tug. The damage ended being the fairing on the R WLG door. Another lucky escape.



At the end of the day it all comes down to a failure of company policy and procedures.
QF management is known for hiding behind the P & P manual, so somewhere along the line today the processes management have put in place failed and incident has happened.

The unfortunate guys on the floor might get a huge shafting for following the rules that their management have told them to follow.
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