20th June .....

...... "N350SW, B737 ACFT, WAS PUSHED BACK FROM GATE 15 INCORRECTLY CAUSING UNDETERMINED NOSE GEAR DAMAGE, THEN ON REPOSITIONING, ACFT STRUCK THE JET BLAST FENCE WITH THE WING TIP, NO INJURIES REPORTED, PASSENGERS DEPLANDED, PROVIDENCE, RI"

Thought exactly the same thing when I saw it!

I think I'd get a taxi home after that!!

Ye. so thats a bad day........

This goes back a few years...

A310 outside hangar doing engine run ups.

At some point during run up the aircraft had enough power on to jump the chocks.

No brakes. No nosegear steering.

Throttles back but momentum had taken over. Aircraft goes nose first into stand/jack storage building on the side of the ramp.

No injuries. Lots and lots of damage.

I'll get me coat

Sure you've seen it before, but why not have another look. This is mechanics having a REALLY BAD DAY!. Scroll down to see the pictures. Year was 2000 at Newark.

Ozzy

I think I am going to sit down and shut up moaning lmao

Libreville Gabon - early 90's as I recall

C130 in the military hangar - local Air Force engineer showing his gf what a smart cockpit he has - starts at least 1 engine maybe more - acft proceeds to ram through the hangar door leaving a nice C130 with prop holes shape through said door - just like a cartoon...amazing

May I share this one with you… courtesy of Readers Digest

Asking his father in law, a crop duster, how his day had gone, an acquaintance received the reply, “Terrible. This morning I was up in my plane dusting a field when I clipped an electricity cable and damaged a wing. When I got back to the office, my boss tore me off a strip. Then a man from the flight authority told me off again. On my way home I stopped off at a pub and was handed a warm lager. I shouted ‘ don’t you have any cold beer?’ at the landlord. He said, ‘sorry but we’ve had no electricity all day. Ever since some idiot crop duster hit a power line down the road”

I remember back in '87 at Luton, an XP Parcels F27 was in the McAlpine hangar overnight on engine maintenance. Early morning came and it was rolled out for engine runs. GPU was plugged in and the number 1 engine fired up. The engineer powered it up but didn't realise the brakes were NOT on and the F27 duly jumped the chocks and engine number one tore into the GPU like a knife through butter....... Shame F27's aren't made by BOEING (Bits Of Engines In Neighbours Garden)

I'll get me coat....

Was the following true - or just another of those 'aviation fables':

A320 being pushed back with engines running. For some reason brakes are applied, towbar weak link breaks and a/c tips slightly backwards....computers think it's near the ground at an unsafe speed and command TOGA - Airbus ends up mounting pushback tractor before it can be stopped.

Notebook was placed on A321 pedestal between pilots. Thrustlevers therefore moved to the most fwd extend. Minutes later engine start seemed to be appropiate. #2 was started, little noisier than usual. Master pulled down immediatly. Towbar was of a strong type.....

s...happens

BEagle,

Not quite. The incident you are referring to went more like this.

A320 Downroute with Computer fault. Captain "knows" how to reset, but it involved putting thrust levers into a mid power position. Computer reset in E & E bay, thrust levers left where they are.

Following Right engine start on pushback, engine continues accelerating to thrust lever selected power setting. Side load shears towbar and engine ends up embedded in tow truck, with very frightened driver having just got out in time.

H

Hamrah closely followed by his brown trousers

Tow truck for A310 skids/spins on icy tarmac, the high inertia of A/C swings the truck so as to damage ENG1 cowling and fuselage skin on the starboard side. On a tight schedule, the bus is imediately towed to maintenace for repairs whilst local TV crew rush in to report on the "disaster".

The hangar is rather small and stowing 310 inside requires some advanced manouvering, unfortunately a wingtip gets damaged rather badly during the process. TV crews arrive.

Country's main TV news event has it all at 7:30 p.m. with fancy graphics and stuff, PR people providing tacky excuses etc, etc. and usual bolllock horror. Yet, the media falcons failed to spot the wing broken just overhead and only saw the nacelle skin being just replaced for a brand new piece! Bad day for them!

well if you really want a "bad day" story hit this link but before you do, please recognise that no one was hurt in the incident ....

photo's and story about 1/2 way down web page.....

http://www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_africa_air.html

ps. thanks to ozzy for the site

Makes you think that ditching in the normal landing config is not as desperate as one might think? Looks like the pylon fuses went at impact?

Does anybody know of any other ditching of a jet transport that looks to be so survivable? (other than the RAF Nimrod)

Mind you if the sea was as calm as when the pics were taken that would have helped more than somewhat

JF .... I was thinking exactly the same thing ...... a perfect landing ....... I would guess a Lake surface certainly helps versus an Ocean ..... I wonder if Gear Down may have helped stabilize the landing on water

cheers .....

Not at all funny, but on 12 May 1959, Capital Airlines (USA) had to ask callers "Which crash?".

They had a Viscount break up in a thunderstorm (31 fatalities) and a Constellation groundlooped with one pax and one crew fatality.

It doesn't get much worse than that for a single airline

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