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Zaphod Beblebrox

1st Jul 2018 21:51

I just finished a 4 day trip, and we picked up ship #806AW, the hail damaged aircraft, in Houston, IAH, and went on to LAX. We kept the same airplane from LAX to CMH, Columbus, OH. It flew just fine. The log book had over 20pages of repair notes and entries since the hail incident on June 3. They did a great job with the airplane. Engine cowls and blades were like new; they probably were. The only thing we could see, and we both did a walk around, was some dings on the inboard leading edges. Both outboard slats had been replaced as had the horizontal stabilizer leading edge.

stilton

2nd Jul 2018 03:51

I must be missing something

Our operations manual prohibits us from making public speeches / talking to the media after an accident/ incident or aircraft damage

Theres no issue with keeping your passengers updated while on the aircraft but
‘holding court’ in the terminal afterwards is ill advised

hans brinker

2nd Jul 2018 03:58

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Originally Posted by BAengineer (Post 10184784)

9 mechanics to change 2 windows and a nose cone in 3 days... methinks someone is milking the overtime....;)

4 windows. radome, radar, wing fairing, couple of slats...........

sandos

2nd Jul 2018 06:16

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Originally Posted by stilton (Post 10186246)

Not a pilot, but I noticed that Iv'e never seen pilots talk about an incident after the fact on video. It felt very odd.

Zaphod Beblebrox

2nd Jul 2018 11:26

[QUOTE=stilton;10186246]

I must be missing something

Our operations manual prohibits us from making public speeches / talking to the media after an accident/ incident or aircraft damage

"You are absolutely correct on that." There should have been no public comments regarding this incident until all the required paperwork was submitted and until this crew had talked to and been given guidance by APA.

Rick777

3rd Jul 2018 00:05

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Originally Posted by Sailvi767 (Post 10165634)

Hail can be tossed out of a big cell as far as 20 miles downwind. The problem is that if you will only operate when you can remain 20 miles away from a cell your going to be grounded a good part of the summer in the US.

I flew all around the US for 35 years and that is exactly what I did. Never got any hail damage.

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