Ryanair in a trench at EGPK
Cannot post the piccy, but they plopped her in a well marked trench. Testing on her no2 engine! Whoops
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Originally Posted by Hueymeister
(Post 10669783)
Cannot post the piccy, but they plopped her in a well marked trench. Testing on her no2 engine! Whoops
This one? Guess you meant ‘Resting’? Looks like Stbd main gear as collapsed in a forward direction. Pushing back? |
Originally Posted by Arkroyal
(Post 10669808)
This one? Guess you meant ‘Resting’? Looks like Stbd main gear as collapsed in a forward direction. Pushing back?
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I've not done any tricky Photoshop stuff, but I've lightened the image quickly to get a better look as I couldn't see what was happening. It does rather look like the ground has given way...
Is there damage to the plane, or is that just a trick of the (lack of) light? https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d1a69bae9.jpeg |
The "trench" does not appear "well marked" in the photo (unless they were not supposed to be on that whole apron at all). OTOH, I don't see a taxiway marking to be followed either. Was the plane where it was supposed to be? If so, the airport has some answering to do. If the crew were taxiing out of bounds, the crew (or marshaller/follow me) have some answering to do.
We had a DC-8-63 do exactly this decades back. The ground was too soft underneath the pavement, same result. It had been marshalled across an area of apron not approved for that weight. It was three days getting it dug out though.... |
Originally Posted by Pilot DAR
(Post 10669935)
We had a DC-8-63 do exactly this decades back. The ground was too soft underneath the pavement, same result. It had been marshalled across an area of apron not approved for that weight. It was three days getting it dug out though....
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Originally Posted by FrontSeatPhil
(Post 10669884)
Is there damage to the plane, or is that just a trick of the (lack of) light?
BUT, if the aircraft really is resting on that engine, the gear could just be hanging in freefall in the (deep) trench, with full strut extension, and thus not necessarily damaged significantly. I wouldn't bet either way from just one picture, though. |
The aircraft appears to be sitting on the eastern half of the old runway 08/26, used for parking (roughly where the USAF KC-135 is on the Google Earth view).
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That photo was taken later that day. She’s in a hole, dug in H at the southern end. By then then ac had been defuelled and the oleos pumped up. Originally shed’d been resting on the no 2 engine and the wheel oleo wasn’t supporting her full weight. The area had been marked with lighting and signage...
They were pretty lucky as the port undercarriage was a matter of feet from an even deeper hole. |
Where is the left wing? Light pole to the right of the plane has a jog above the base and other things mostly on the right look faked. Is that an open door?
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Is that an open door? |
Originally Posted by Blade Master
(Post 10670858)
Where is the left wing? Light pole to the right of the plane has a jog above the base and other things mostly on the right look faked.
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Oh dasss not fake. I got da pictures!
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....35ca6abdc.jpeg |
Story goes, aircraft rolled out from hangar onto new tarmac and sunk into it.
Here's a picture shortly after. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8faee0a42c.jpg |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 10669844)
Looks like it was inbound from STN, so presumably a training detail. The track on FR24 stops at the point where the parallel Twy R crosses the disused runway.
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Originally Posted by iome
(Post 10670972)
Positioning flight to maintenance.
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