Mover buffoonery (again)
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At "The worlds greatest airport in the worlds greatest city" (Company statement, not mine) this sort of thing is a regular event. When it does, the jet is removed and given a major safety check. The bent cowling may also have caused damage to the engine bearers, wing structure, etc. Please tell me that our engineering friends ane giving the air bridge a full once over. Would hate for an engine to fall off half way back to UK.
Somewhere we have a nice photo of an electric baggage tug which struck the hold of a 737. Made a large hole (I mean HUGE) and fractured 3 of the frames. That was a very expensive dink. Driver of electric tug said his brakes failed (yeh right), and he bailed out leaving the tug to freewheel into the a/c at about 8 mph. (These things weigh about 2 ton ish).
We had another event in which a B747 driver forgot he was driving a B747SP, as he usually drove the Classic version. He therefore drove it right into the airbridge (jetty ) which made a very nice hole in his port wing.
Then there was the passenger coach driver who didn't see the wing of the DC9 some years back. Low wing and high driving position didn't help his case as the vehicle embedded itself in the wing, and the coach driver had his head taken off clean as you like. It all happens here you know.
Somewhere we have a nice photo of an electric baggage tug which struck the hold of a 737. Made a large hole (I mean HUGE) and fractured 3 of the frames. That was a very expensive dink. Driver of electric tug said his brakes failed (yeh right), and he bailed out leaving the tug to freewheel into the a/c at about 8 mph. (These things weigh about 2 ton ish).
We had another event in which a B747 driver forgot he was driving a B747SP, as he usually drove the Classic version. He therefore drove it right into the airbridge (jetty ) which made a very nice hole in his port wing.
Then there was the passenger coach driver who didn't see the wing of the DC9 some years back. Low wing and high driving position didn't help his case as the vehicle embedded itself in the wing, and the coach driver had his head taken off clean as you like. It all happens here you know.
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Hi Gang;
Has the blame been stuck to anyone yet...or is it all going under the carpet..being so far away and all that.
After all, what's a few days wait for some R&R pongos???
Might be a bit miffed if it was my end-of-det gozomie bird though...but then again I was 2 days late into theatre because of Tri* radar snags all those year ago.
Later...
Regards to Most;
'J' Bloke.
Edited for red wine speeling
Has the blame been stuck to anyone yet...or is it all going under the carpet..being so far away and all that.
After all, what's a few days wait for some R&R pongos???
Might be a bit miffed if it was my end-of-det gozomie bird though...but then again I was 2 days late into theatre because of Tri* radar snags all those year ago.
Later...
Regards to Most;
'J' Bloke.
Edited for red wine speeling
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They have taken the blame.
It was unfortunatley a mover....who is in the med centre with shock.
Words fail me......yet again....
16B
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Can't have, surely? Saw him leave this evening..........as I drove through the area NOT from the end of the runway!!!
Can't have, surely? Saw him leave this evening..........as I drove through the area NOT from the end of the runway!!!
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Have seen at least one airframe reduced to GIA and another undergo a huge series of checks following occurences whilst in the hands of aircrew. Funnily enough these haven't made it onto Pprune. Wonder why?
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It was 100% definitely a mover, manoevering his tow truck with baggage trailer backwards at high speed with no marshallers. But all is not lost, apparently the SAMO and DSAMO are both for the manual-down-the-trousers and hats-on treatment a well! 3 birds with one stone, nice one!
The good news is that a rescue Tristar has arrived to whisk all those worried people home. But it gets better. The waiting inbound pax were told a new excuse on me....namely that the wait for their baggage was due to it being an 'unfamiliar aircraft'. Must be the lack of ROYAL AIR FORCE written on the side that foxed 'em. Crikey, let's hope a C17 doesn't arrive or we're all bggrd!
The good news is that a rescue Tristar has arrived to whisk all those worried people home. But it gets better. The waiting inbound pax were told a new excuse on me....namely that the wait for their baggage was due to it being an 'unfamiliar aircraft'. Must be the lack of ROYAL AIR FORCE written on the side that foxed 'em. Crikey, let's hope a C17 doesn't arrive or we're all bggrd!
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Hooray!
Update:
Within the last 25 minutes the B747 and the civilian Tristar have left and are on their way to ASI. The engine casing was successfully replaced and 25 damn lucky passengers who couldnt fit on the Tristar have a nice 747 to make the most of!
Polo
Within the last 25 minutes the B747 and the civilian Tristar have left and are on their way to ASI. The engine casing was successfully replaced and 25 damn lucky passengers who couldnt fit on the Tristar have a nice 747 to make the most of!
Polo
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Errm, no.
Can't quite recall the name of the publication, but one exists in the forces whose purpose is to highlight various aviation accidents/near misses. The only reason I get to peruse it is because it's taped up above the urinals at brize norton!
The publication is, I think, bi-monthly and features gaffes (Some being serious enough to endander life) from all walks of military aviation. From what I can see, movers do cock up, sometimes with highly inconvenient consequences. However, it would seem that other ground trades and even aircrew cock up with equal, perhaps even greater, frequency.
When the movers cock up, 200 odd passengers are instantly hacked off with them, because there's no hiding what has happened. If an engineer makes an equivalent mistake on a fast jet the best case scenario is that the crew are peeved and their sortie is cancelled. The worst case scenario is that someone dies.
Bearing in mind that I'm impartial, I think it might be an idea to reign in the condemnation of the muppets. (At least until they crunch another frame!)
The publication is, I think, bi-monthly and features gaffes (Some being serious enough to endander life) from all walks of military aviation. From what I can see, movers do cock up, sometimes with highly inconvenient consequences. However, it would seem that other ground trades and even aircrew cock up with equal, perhaps even greater, frequency.
When the movers cock up, 200 odd passengers are instantly hacked off with them, because there's no hiding what has happened. If an engineer makes an equivalent mistake on a fast jet the best case scenario is that the crew are peeved and their sortie is cancelled. The worst case scenario is that someone dies.
Bearing in mind that I'm impartial, I think it might be an idea to reign in the condemnation of the muppets. (At least until they crunch another frame!)
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Originally Posted by FJJP
When a thread degenerates into an inter-trade slanging match it gets really boring.
Give it a rest and wait for the official report.
Give it a rest and wait for the official report.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...05/ixhome.html
£600,000 Whoops. How long is that going to take him to pay back?
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Do we still employ people who say "prang" to people holding notepads? Do I have to regrow a ridiculous moustache? Do I have to try and be nice to movers? Is it time to leave?
Answers on a postcard..........
Answers on a postcard..........
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The full quote:
Luggage Handler ? 
Very embarrassed ? 
It's good to see the spokesman had such a good grip on the situation, as usual !
S_H
An RAF officer said: "This has to be one of the most expensive prangs in the history of the Air Force. The luggage handler is very embarrassed."
Very embarrassed ? It's good to see the spokesman had such a good grip on the situation, as usual !
S_H
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expensive prang
I once witnessed a 'prang' Seeb, short of it was the tractor driver overstressed the towing arm, snapped it and drove the tractor into the front of a Nimrod. Much applause was to be heard around the pan. New radome had to be flown out from the UK, which resulted in the 'mighty hunter' being grounded for a good 2 weeks! If memory serves me correctly (it was only 2001) the driver was an MT Warrant Officer! Beautiful! I suspect that prang might have cost a few quid!
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