NutLoose
3rd Dec 2023, 08:57
Apparently rolled backwards into the A400 causing damage to both earlier this year.
pictures in the link.
Royal Canadian Air Force transport plane 15003 — a CC-150 Polaris — was involved in a ground collision with a French Air Force plane on July 22 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam while participating in a multinational exercise organized by the United States Air Force.With the fate of the aircraft left in doubt since the summer, the Royal Canadian Air Force confirmed to the National Post on Thursday the plane will be written off and scrapped on site.
“The Polaris CC-150 aircraft in question sustained severe damage that renders repair economically unfeasible,” said Department of National Defence Spokesperson Maj. Soomin Kim.
“Repair costs were estimated to range between $7.9 and $28.5 million, with a six to eight-month turnaround period.”
According to an official air force occurrence summary (https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/reports-publications/flight-safety-investigation-reports/cc150-polaris-from-investigator.html), 15003 was taking part in Exercise MOBILITY GUARDIAN (https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3464236/mobility-guardian-23-sharpens-afmcs-warfighter-support/), a large-scale logistics training exercise facilitated by the USAF Air Mobility Command.
An RCAF crew assigned to fly the plane back to CFB Trenton arrived at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on July 21, the report read, with plans to depart Guam the next day for Canada.
“The aircraft was loaded with equipment and baggage in preparation for departure the following day,” the report read.
Noting the plane was left “partially secured” without wheel chocks, the report said 15003 rolled backwards on its own at 10:30 a.m. the next morning, colliding with a French Air Force Airbus A400M parked nearby.
The French aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer tore through 15003’s rudder, nearly shearing off the plane’s tail.
Both planes sustained major damage in the collision, the report noted, but nobody was injured.
“The investigation did not reveal any evidence of technical issues with the aircraft and is now focusing on procedures, communications, and human factors,” the report stated.
The decision to scrap 15003 came just one day before the plane was scheduled to be decommissioned, Kim said, now that the first of four new Airbus-built CC-330 Husky Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) planes entered service earlier this month.
The CC-330s are based on Airbus’s venerable A330-200 airliners.
Those four planes are part of a $3.6-billion deal to modernize Canada’s transport, VIP and air-to-air refuelling capabilities.
Canada’s first CC-330 arrived in Canada in October (https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/new-aircraft-to-fix-canadas-transport-plane-woes) and took its first official flight earlier this month, transporting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the APEC summit in San Francisco.
https://nationalpost.com/news/rcaf-plane-collision-guam-scrapped
pictures in the link.
Royal Canadian Air Force transport plane 15003 — a CC-150 Polaris — was involved in a ground collision with a French Air Force plane on July 22 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam while participating in a multinational exercise organized by the United States Air Force.With the fate of the aircraft left in doubt since the summer, the Royal Canadian Air Force confirmed to the National Post on Thursday the plane will be written off and scrapped on site.
“The Polaris CC-150 aircraft in question sustained severe damage that renders repair economically unfeasible,” said Department of National Defence Spokesperson Maj. Soomin Kim.
“Repair costs were estimated to range between $7.9 and $28.5 million, with a six to eight-month turnaround period.”
According to an official air force occurrence summary (https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/reports-publications/flight-safety-investigation-reports/cc150-polaris-from-investigator.html), 15003 was taking part in Exercise MOBILITY GUARDIAN (https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3464236/mobility-guardian-23-sharpens-afmcs-warfighter-support/), a large-scale logistics training exercise facilitated by the USAF Air Mobility Command.
An RCAF crew assigned to fly the plane back to CFB Trenton arrived at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on July 21, the report read, with plans to depart Guam the next day for Canada.
“The aircraft was loaded with equipment and baggage in preparation for departure the following day,” the report read.
Noting the plane was left “partially secured” without wheel chocks, the report said 15003 rolled backwards on its own at 10:30 a.m. the next morning, colliding with a French Air Force Airbus A400M parked nearby.
The French aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer tore through 15003’s rudder, nearly shearing off the plane’s tail.
Both planes sustained major damage in the collision, the report noted, but nobody was injured.
“The investigation did not reveal any evidence of technical issues with the aircraft and is now focusing on procedures, communications, and human factors,” the report stated.
The decision to scrap 15003 came just one day before the plane was scheduled to be decommissioned, Kim said, now that the first of four new Airbus-built CC-330 Husky Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) planes entered service earlier this month.
The CC-330s are based on Airbus’s venerable A330-200 airliners.
Those four planes are part of a $3.6-billion deal to modernize Canada’s transport, VIP and air-to-air refuelling capabilities.
Canada’s first CC-330 arrived in Canada in October (https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/new-aircraft-to-fix-canadas-transport-plane-woes) and took its first official flight earlier this month, transporting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the APEC summit in San Francisco.
https://nationalpost.com/news/rcaf-plane-collision-guam-scrapped