View Full Version : DC8 Gear Collapse @ DXB
Noticed a DC8 on the Northside of DXB looking rather sorry for itself, with either the starboard gear collapsed or sunk in sand. Any ideas what happened??? Lots of emergency vehicles etc in attendence.
EGGW :hmm:
CanadaKid
25th Mar 2006, 03:34
Just in this morning and saw the mess.
A redcap said the crew took a shortcut to their parking bay. The ramp entry at P2 was nearby but then . . . they could have suddenly lost their steering, had a brake seize or whatever. Was that DC-8-61?
CK
biggles39
26th Mar 2006, 13:14
Hi,
Aircraft involved was ST-UAA DC-8-62H/AF (c/n 46162/555) apparently invound empty from BEY.
Pictures below of the aircraft involved, apparently not much damage except to the engines nacelles.
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=ST-UAA&distinct_entry=true
Cheers
biggles39