BAE146 crashed thru wall at ORTIA

[Romeo E.T.]

anybody know how this happened

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[I.R.PIRATE]

Jealous little 146 wanted to make like that bigger Etihad A340 paperweight of recent times.

[Newforest2]

Your photos are not viewable, the accident happened in 2002 and the aircraft is a RJ-85.

[spagiola]

the accident happened in 2002 and the aircraft is a RJ-85

Hmmm, no. The original website (http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=46243&sid=163f271b8cdc61f93e37ca49378c7e0b) does say this happened "this morning" (ie April 8, 2009). Besides, Airlink didn't have 146/RJs in 2002 (first was added in 2007, see South Africa's Airlink adds BAe 146s (http://www.smiliner.com/news/2007.shtml#0703_8)).

Does anyone know the reg of this 146/RJ?

[Jester1]

The RJ's reg is ZS-ASW!

[Tin-Tin]

Airlink mechanics collided with Anglo's wall due to an "hydraulic" failure..That is the version which I heard..:ugh:


http://196.22.132.16/horde/imp/view.php?thismailbox=INBOX&index=4607&id=2&actionID=113&mime=2618c8719f6101f1d36cc1130382fdde

[V1... Ooops]

Details and photos here: Aviation Safety Network (http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=59464). No login required.

[Champagne Lover]

Oooops! I suspect this will be an embarassmunt?

[V1... Ooops]

The people who really should be embarrassed are the people who built that brick wall. Look at the remarkable lack of damage to the radome of the aircraft (the second photo at the link I provided above). Did they even bother to use mortar to hold the bricks together? :)

[FabFlyer]

I'm not so sure the wall builders need to be that embarrased. Maybe the radome builders need to be proud of the strength of thier radome.

Look again at the pics and you'll see how extensive the wrinkling of the skin of the aircraft is below the cockpit windows and especially the lower part of the fuselage that is in shadow.

[V1... Ooops]

I suspect that the skin wrinkling in the area you refer to was a consequence of the fuselage dropping onto the ground when the nosewheel went over the rather sharp drop on the outside of the brick wall.

[FlyItLikeARental]

Well after hitting the wall Airlink's technical department finally had a break through with the 146/RJ85 :} Anyone with further info wrt to the fate of the aircraft? I believe ASW was one of the nicer bonzai antonovs on the fleet?

[I.R.PIRATE]

...not to mention Mr.Foster's personal machine, if the rumour mill doth not speak with forked-tongue.

[HZ123]

We have got plenty 146 /RJ's for sale in the UK and there is a good few in Canada.

[Doodlebug2]

Seem to remember a colleague coming up against an Airlink Jetstream being taxied around Johannesburg Airport at 2 am, without lights on, on the taxyways by Airlink mechanics. Maybe this is a thing Airlink mechanics do regularly, except now they feel the need for a little bit of light on the subject! :=

[Pacman10]

the accident happened in 2009 i was there at the time of the accidebt

[suitcaseman]

And your point is.......?

[snotneus]

What happened to the a/c? Was she written off?

[Leezyjet]

accidebt

And can you give us a clue as to what an accidebt is ?.

:confused:

[Der absolute Hammer]

In 1911, a secret society was formed in the Balkans. One of it's members was supposedly responsible for the Sarajevo assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which, in consequence, led to the outbreak of the First World War, which as any Ppruner knows, was won by the Americans. The name of that society has striking significance in this case and I wonder if there is any connection?
The society was called The Black Hand.