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Airbubba 24th Aug 2019 18:32
A6-EOP EK A380 Takes a Bow in the Hangar
 
Possibly trying to cycle the gear doors with without a nosegear pin? It's been done before on other aircraft.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....acb375b98c.jpg

atakacs 24th Aug 2019 18:46
Whoops

Hope no-one hurt. Will be a costly mistake I reckon.

Airbubba 24th Aug 2019 19:10
A couple of online listings of the incident:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228468

ironbutt57 24th Aug 2019 22:43
off to the parts bin....

OMAAbound 25th Aug 2019 10:10
Not to worry, they’ve got plenty of spares parked down the road at DWC

atakacs 25th Aug 2019 10:15
Originally Posted by OMAAbound (Post 10553678)
Not to worry, they’ve got plenty of spares parked down the road at DWC
380s not flying?!

krismiler 26th Aug 2019 00:43
Similar event with an SQ A330 while parked at the gate 4 years ago. That was caught on tape.

nonsense 26th Aug 2019 03:05
Originally Posted by Airbubba (Post 10553392)
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=20190822-0

atakacs 26th Aug 2019 04:01
Originally Posted by krismiler (Post 10554157)
Similar event with an SQ A330 while parked at the gate 4 years ago. That was caught on tape.
Was not (at least not in linked vid)

The Outlaw 26th Aug 2019 10:21
That will polish right out.

Nothing to see here....move along.

Plus we just do things better at EK, so this would never happen to us...but if it did then we just put the responsible person in jail and deduct the damage from his salary. But it never happened.

Tim

Anilv 27th Aug 2019 05:13
I bet more effort is given to looking for the poor sod who took/shared the picture instead of finding out the root cause of the incident!.

Anilv

atakacs 27th Aug 2019 10:20
Originally Posted by Anilv (Post 10555006)
I bet more effort is given to looking for the poor sod who took/shared the picture instead of finding out the root cause of the incident!.
Anilv
Of course.

But that's pretty much SOP

fdr 28th Aug 2019 00:56
Did it do any damage to the hanger floor? The floor is there for a long time... the A380 appears not to be so. (sadly; the 380 is a great passenger appeal aircraft even to Boeing drivers).

CDRW 8th Sep 2019 12:38
Originally Posted by Anilv (Post 10555006)
I bet more effort is given to looking for the poor sod who took/shared the picture instead of finding out the root cause of the incident!.

Anilv
A policy that's tried and tested and found to be successful throughout the middle east !

ironbutt57 8th Sep 2019 23:08
Originally Posted by OMAAbound (Post 10553678)
Not to worry, they’ve got plenty of spares parked down the road at DWC

actually, thats the case, well two 6 1/2 year old ones are being retired and parted out anyway...this one might join?

fatbus 9th Sep 2019 11:51
Still can figure out why those two are being parted out .

ironbutt57 9th Sep 2019 22:51
Originally Posted by fatbus (Post 10565570)
Still can figure out why those two are being parted out .
seems strange when there must be higher cycle ones in the system....damage/maintenance history maybe? sure would be interesting

BigGeordie 10th Sep 2019 05:57
Apparently they were coming up for a major check soon but who knows?

ironbutt57 10th Sep 2019 06:16
Originally Posted by BigGeordie (Post 10566194)
Apparently they were coming up for a major check soon but who knows?

hmmm...that would probably do it...hope they have lots of good expensive serviceable parts left on them, seems remarketing options are few for those planes....


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