Ouch, catering truck hits Airbus A320 at Guadalajara, Mexico
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Ouch, catering truck hits Airbus A320 at Guadalajara, Mexico
It took a big wack, film and pics below
Wow. That's a twist on the 11foot 8 bridge. The commenters there would ask "Why isn't the plane just raised up higher?"
This is one of those cases where I wonder if rebuilding the truck to have the driver's head above the top of the truck shell might be a way to avoid this.
Meanwhile, in the terminal, the departing gate announces that 50 rolls of speed tape is requested ASAP along with an extension ladder.
This is one of those cases where I wonder if rebuilding the truck to have the driver's head above the top of the truck shell might be a way to avoid this.
Meanwhile, in the terminal, the departing gate announces that 50 rolls of speed tape is requested ASAP along with an extension ladder.
Don't know anything about Airbus, I worked B777 and B747. The tail jacking point must be somewhere near that damage, so supporting the airframe while carrying out the repair will be interesting. All that weight, APU, fin, tailplane, behind the damage. At least it's behind the pressure bulkhead.
Don't know anything about Airbus, I worked B777 and B747. The tail jacking point must be somewhere near that damage, so supporting the airframe while carrying out the repair will be interesting. All that weight, APU, fin, tailplane, behind the damage. At least it's behind the pressure bulkhead.
Quite a bit of damaged skin and internal structure, so the airframe needs supporting while the repair is carried out. Retired now but involved with quite a few belly skin repairs and replacement belly skin replacement. Biggest repair was when a tug driver thought he was driving under a B777 when he was actually driving under a B747, there is a big difference in ground clearance.
When I was on the DC-10 with Laker, we were in the crew bus at Gatwick on our way out to Stand 22 (or thereabouts) to go flying. Next door was a DanAir 727 with a catering truck in the near vicinity. Believe it or not, it had knocked the centre engine clean out of the airframe and there was a complete P&W JT-8 engine lying on the ramp! Remarkable.
While I don't think it requires the 2 to 4 year investigation that most a/c aviation incidents seem to need I'd have thought it reasonable to conduct a thorough and robust review of exactly what happened, and why.
Who knows, something may be learned from that which could prevent it from happening again. For example; there could be issues with training, the vehicle may have had a mechanical failure, or it's even possible the driver may have had a medical event.
So maybe you could cut the guy, or girl, some slack 'till more is known?
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Don't know what kind the transmission this US trucks have, namely, if it manual, or automatic (like almost all American cars), but it looks like he was kind of coasting in 'Neutral', and obviously not paying attention to the driving, hit the aircraft, which absorved all of the truck energy, with the truck kind of bouncing back some space from the impact, and the driver finally putting his feet on the brake and stopping the truck. Must have thought where did this aircraft came from ...
There were 2 people in the truck, so maybe conversation between them, with the driver not looking forward.
When I was on the DC-10 with Laker, we were in the crew bus at Gatwick on our way out to Stand 22 (or thereabouts) to go flying. Next door was a DanAir 727 with a catering truck in the near vicinity. Believe it or not, it had knocked the centre engine clean out of the airframe and there was a complete P&W JT-8 engine lying on the ramp! Remarkable.
Ouch !