Gearpin stowage
 

A question for all you 747 guys and girls:

In our (KLM) a/c we stow the gearpins in the cockpit and not in the E/E compartment, for obvious reasons.

This mod must have saved us a lot of trouble in the past 30 years, I believe.

Regards, Ballpoint.

I had a quick look at it today, driving past in the crew bus to our plane. Not much to see, just the nose gear doors a bit bent.
There may have been damage elsewhere, but I didn't get a good enough look to find out.

I am very padantic too, I believe you have to be indeed. I've 400 hours of accident/incident free flying in my logbook that says so.

And now it is time I go look for other nick-name.

FlightDetent (exit the scene) :{ :{ :{

They do say that those that never actually do anything never make mistakes!!!!!

N24837...last -300 made, I think...

TT

Guess some folks in Atlas management just can't wait for 1 December......

Being a Bus diver and not a Boeing Engineer, here is a sketchy outline view (RUMOUR) of what I was told happened.

Apparently the said aircraft required the landing gear selector unit (ie the gear lever quadrant) to be partially or wholly replaced. Problem was that as the gear wasn't actually being directly worked on and hence the required pins were not in place. As the new equipment was being replaced, not noticed, the selection of the new equipment was at UP, CAUSING GEAR RETRACTION!!

Rumour not fact but most likely very correct form a good source.

Cheers GD :\ :{