Empty Boeing 767 rolls off tarmac at LAX

[747FOCAL]

Empty Boeing 767 rolls off tarmac at LAX
04/10/2002

The Associated Press


LOS ANGELES — A plane getaway.

An empty American Airlines Boeing 767 rolled into a fence at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday morning.

The jet was near the hangar area. Twenty feet of the nose smashed through the fence, blocking part of a street.

An airport spokesman says there will be an investigation to see if the parking brake was properly set. The plane had been parked overnight for maintenance.

:D

[TowerDog]

Darn, there goes my profit sharing...:(

[AtlPax]

Any Photos?

[PaperTiger]

Here (ABC) (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/airplane020410.html)

And while we're in Califunnia, SFO 'incident' (http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/041002_nw_sfo_incident.html)

[tinyrice]

NWA did it with an A320 recently in Las Vegas. Off the ramp and over an embankment - reportedly $19 million dollars in damage.

[Kalium Chloride]

How often do you see this in a news report?

The shoes were blown up by police


:D :D :D

[PaperTiger]

The full quote is even more astonishing:

The shoes were blown up by police, even after it was determined they were not dangerous and contained no explosives.

Wasn't that a Monty Python skit ?

[I. M. Esperto]

Here's more, with a photo:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/04/10/runaway.plane/index.html

[con-pilot]

I love the last bit, “Airport police are investigating the incident.”

What are they going to do, take the DC-10 into a back room and sweat out a confession?

“Alright Mr. 10, you’re trying to hijack yourself, right? Who’s in this with you? We have a witness that will testify that you getting real friendly a MD-80 in an airport bar last night!”

[Huck]

Keep a weather eye, boys.... Those freakin' terrorists are entering a new phase, sneaking out on the ramp and pulling the chocks while we're busy attacking shoes!

[AtlPax]

from Airdisaster.com . . . (http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000992) (page down a little)

Maybe the aeroplane wanted to try life as an automobile for a while. :D

[Cyclic Hotline]

A chock! a chock! my kingdom for a chock!

The ultimate insult?

Apparently it got clamped too, and they couldn't move it back! :D

[Ignition Override]

Las Vegas: Several years ago Northwest Airlines switched to "contract" maintenance there and at several other western US cities. I won't mention which other major airline got the job in Las Vegas-we all make mistakes.

Never mind the condition of many jets which come from "outsourced" (especially non-airline) maintenance facilities, which do work at very low bids and fast inspection times. You would not want any family members riding on some of these Part 91 ferry flights.

[gyrohead]

:mad: HEY KUBOTA!!

Why Irish Plot?? Did someone let a tire down on one of your stupid tractors farm boy?
:mad:

[Leviathan]

Kubota,

You're a real comedian aren't ya.

[Pandora]

There's nothing funny about Irish terror attacks. Even when they 'go wrong' they still kill people. Are you one of those people from the 'guns' thread who thinks the English have never had to suffer terrorist attacks?

[gyrohead]

:) Yes! Jokes about Gay Black Polish people are acceptable!:)

[I. M. Esperto]

May he always be flying and straying naked through the world until death at spear-point takes him.

My curse ever upon Kubota and my blessing on Gyro Head.:p

[avt100]

:D http://www.airdisaster.com/news/0402/11/1.jpg
;)

[avt100]

Last week at Boeing field Seattle :D


http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/n19903/1.jpg


No fatalities

More at Latest Aviation News (http://luchtvaart.pagina.nl) :rolleyes:

[Kubota]

If I offended anyone, I apologise.

You're absolutely correct, terrorism is no joke.

[Kubota]

Attached are 4 photographs of a recent Indian Airlines A300 accident, details of which are as follows:

On 8 March at 0315 hours IAL’s maintenance crew prepared to taxi. From the voice recorder we know that at the time of taxi there were 5 people in the cockpit talking. The A300 is a three man cockpit and it appears that there was a lot of activity just prior to engine start up.

After engine start up both engines went to flight idle. This was due to someone inadvertently pulling the flight idle circuit breaker. Apart from having too much power, being in flight idle also means that you lose nose wheel steering and brakes as they are inhibited. As the aircraft moved off the chocks it started heading directly for the A320 hangars.

On attempting to make the 180 degree turn to the taxi way the crew discovered that they had no steering, they then soon discovered that they had no brakes (the CVR is interesting at this point!).

The A300 had 12 tonnes of fuel on board and with two A320’s in the hangar they decided to take action to avoid the hangars. This they did by trying to reduce power on the number 1 engine (they couldn’t) while increasing power to 90% on the number 2.

The aircraft started to turn and after turning approx.80 degrees they lost control of the aircraft and it went straight through the airport perimeter wall next to the hangars.

The nose wheel collapsed and the aircraft nose dived (with both engines still at flight idle) into the ground. As you can see from the photographs the engines ingested a large amount of rock and soil. Also on impact both pylons buckled at the rear mount position. The aircraft belly has also been ripped away.

Airbus have sent a team to Delhi, their preliminary assessment is that it will cost $13 million to repair not counting the two engines and two complete nacelles. Given that the residual value of a 20 plus year old Indian Airlines A300 is close to zero it is highly likely it will be declared beyond economical repair.

By all accounts the cockpit voice recording for the event is quite comical and will soon be available on the internet joke circuit.

There but for the grace of God go I...



http://www.v1rotate.com/portal/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=66065

[lomapaseo]

Kubota

Any chance that you could post the photos with a link that is not restricted to your ID and password or E-mail them to me.

[Kubota]

Sure. Give me an email address and I'll send them to you asap. I didn't know that it was a restricted site, sorry.

[mvand003]

the pics please! [email protected]

[BOEINGBOY1]

Me too please [email protected]:rolleyes:

[BOEINGBOY1]

in responce to the IAL taxy runaway incidient. Apart from the fact that the cb should never have been pulled in the first place - but
Eng cut off's ?
Fire handles ?
Parking brake ?

[schuler_tuned]

Kubota- follow these instructions very carefully;
1, Click on " post to reply"
2, type in " I'll get me coat..........."

[Kubota]

schuler...sorry, you've lost me.

I didn't write the IAL piece...It's a cut and paste job from another site.

[lamer]

a300 eats dirt (http://www.aviationpics.de/oops/ia300/page_01.htm)

regards

[Shore Guy]

Bad week at LAX.......

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 191UA Make/Model: B747 Description: B-747
Date: 04/06/2002 Time: 1820

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Minor

LOCATION
City: LOS ANGELES State: CA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
UNITED AIRLINES ACFT WAS TAXIING TO GATE 74 WHEN THE #1 ENGINE STRUCK A
CITY AMBULANCE PARKED ON THE APRON, THE ACFT DRUG THE AMBULANCE
APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET, AND THE AMBULANCE SUBSEQUENTLY STRUCK 2 BAGGAGE
CARTS, MINOR DAMAGE WAS REPORTED, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, NO
INJURIES WERE REPORTED, LOS ANGELES, CA.

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: Y
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: Y
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: UNKN

OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Taxi Operation: Air Carrier

Departed: UNKN Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: UNKN Flt Plan: UNK Wx Briefing: U
Last Radio Cont: UNKN
Last Clearance: UNKN

FAA FSDO: LOS ANGELES, CA (WP23) Entry date: 04/08/2002