BA flight loses fairing
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BA flight loses fairing
From a Dutch newspaper: nrc.nl - Binnenland - Vliegtuig verliest onderdeel
Anybody know about this? Was it a flap track fairing?
Translation:
Schiphol, 16th of September
An airplane of BA has lost a part shortly after take of from Schiphol Airport.
According to a spokesperson from the Dutch Safety Inspection, the so-called fairing has landed in the vicinity of Spaarnwoude. A fairing is a aerodynamic shroud of an airplane.
It is a part of an airplane that, stressed by the spokesperson, does not influence the flight safety. The part, about 50 by 150 cm in size, has not been found, so far as the spokesperson knows of. (?)
It is still unclear how the part became detached from the plane.
Schiphol, 16th of September
An airplane of BA has lost a part shortly after take of from Schiphol Airport.
According to a spokesperson from the Dutch Safety Inspection, the so-called fairing has landed in the vicinity of Spaarnwoude. A fairing is a aerodynamic shroud of an airplane.
It is a part of an airplane that, stressed by the spokesperson, does not influence the flight safety. The part, about 50 by 150 cm in size, has not been found, so far as the spokesperson knows of. (?)
It is still unclear how the part became detached from the plane.
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Not heard about it but the flap track fairing is an aerodynamic fairing that covers the flap track. You are allowed to fly without an amount of them as long as it is in compliance with the CDL. The penalty is increase fuel usage.
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You are allowed to fly without an amount of them as long as it is in compliance with the CDL. The penalty is increase fuel usage.
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According newspaper Parool it was a Ba146 loosing a fairing "sticking out underneath the wing". (Flaptrack fairing?) It landed in somebodys backyard.
Koningin Beatrix, Prins Willem-Alexander en Prinses Maxima wuiven naar het publiek vanaf het balkon van Paleis Noordeinde in Den Haag
Odd thing, they didn't play the Oz & Netherlands national anthems
Back to the thread - if it lands in your garden can you keep it??
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Hehe, funny
Historic fragment...? A part off the last plane designed at de Havillands, Hatfield? A real aviation museum piece... end of an era!
Now wait for the responses
Historic fragment...? A part off the last plane designed at de Havillands, Hatfield? A real aviation museum piece... end of an era!
Now wait for the responses
Back to the thread - if it lands in your garden can you keep it??
One guy was incensed at this and made a museum piece of it in his front yard for all to see from the nearby road. I think somebody stole it a year later for their private yard-junk collection
It is a part of an airplane that, stressed by the spokesperson, does not influence the flight safety.
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@hardhatter
That's more German than Dutch, we tend to like volkswagen golf here in the low countries... Offcourse with numerous bits stuck on with doublesided stickytape, exhausts big enough to fit a 1 gallon coke bottle and noise louder than a 747 at takeoff...
That's more German than Dutch, we tend to like volkswagen golf here in the low countries... Offcourse with numerous bits stuck on with doublesided stickytape, exhausts big enough to fit a 1 gallon coke bottle and noise louder than a 747 at takeoff...
