- - AIR CHINA ... woops
(https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/622708-air-china-woops.html)
Hotel Tango
21st Jun 2019 10:40
anybody got any pix to show the tug track off the hard stuff into the grass? seems like it would have taken a a rather long reaction time
Not entirely sure what you mean. Note that FRA use advanced equipment (which do not require any "brakeman" on the FD for these long distance tows. If you witness them (as I have) they travel at a fair rate of knots on the taxiways clear of the ramp areas. Therefore, if the driver became ill and went off piste the tug would roll for an appreciable distance. For info: the outbound flight, which was due to depart some 7 hours after the incident, was cancelled. Perhaps the aircraft incurred some damage too.
SMT Member
21st Jun 2019 10:42
Originally Posted by Speedywheels
(Post 10499108)
Brake man - normal procedure when towing to have somebody in the cockpit to operate brakes
Not with a TBL it's not, at least not my neck of the woods. Push-backs are also performed with just one guy in a TBL, with a bluetooth headset connected to wirelessly to the flight deck.
FlightDetent
21st Jun 2019 14:26
Only in Europe. In China it is not allowed to walk on the grass, let alone park aircraft.
dufc
21st Jun 2019 18:59
Apparently Sebastian Vettel was driving. :-)
gearlever
21st Jun 2019 19:30
Originally Posted by dufc
(Post 10499885)
Apparently Sebastian Vettel was driving. :-)
No. He is currently at Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet .
