Check out the damage on this 737...
 

Check out the damage on this 737...I have never seen anything like it.

737 damage.

...scroll down the page to see it.

Hail is pretty solid stuff, and if you hit it at speed .... see some biz-jets with similar or worse damage to various leading-edge type structures...

Funny how the blog seems to be implying that this incident happened on September the 9th of this year. This actual incident happened on August 14th 2003.

More photos can be found here: http://flightlevel.20megsfree.com/

I wonder what that cell looked like on the radar?

:bored:

Reminds me of an Iraqui Airways B737-200 that diverted into BAH around 1979. It had taken off from DOH and the capt had seen a thick line on the radar. It was so straight he thought it was a defect with the radar. So they ignored it. All flt deck windscreens crazed and they autolanded at BAH with no fwd visibilty.
A team came down from Baghdad to fix it. They changed the four windscreens and replaved the engine nose domes (which had been bent sideways) and covered all the leading edges in thiokol and speed tape and flew it home. The maint team was led by a young Iraqui girl, which caused great surprise among the local engineers. She was ferocious and the aircraft was only in the GF hangar for two days.

I am surprised they were able to bring it home. I always knew that 100 mile/hour tape would fix everything!

Nice site. I will have to check it out when the guy updates it.

I like the Alps photos that were just added.

Call me old fashioned but personally I find the photo of the worn elevator cable a little more disturbing.

what worn elevator cable????????????????????

Was doing my command assessment out of ZRH that day. Some of the cells to the south of ZRH were pretty impressive!

Look a few photos before the hail damage and you'll see!

40KTSOFFOG,

I'm glad somebody else thought so - I've seen a lot of cables, but nothing like that.....sent shivers down my spine.

VC10 Rib22

:eek:

All,

There was a thread on this sometime ago

Search for "bmi hail"

Link below

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...l&pagenumber=1

Regards,

Shuttlebus

Frig, that hail did some serious damage.

Re: Check out the damage on this 737...
 

Saw the pics before on a different website.
Don't know if it's true but the story was a radar inop coming out of Italy running into storms over the Alps on the way back to London.

I have heard that as well.

I have gone through a lot of weather over the years, but never experienced anything like this bloke did!

Seems like they are lucky to walk away from this one.

WX radar picks up water droplets, so hail is invisible to this equipment !
Scary :eek: !!

I imagine that would have been a surprise. Not seeing anything on the radar and then experiencing one heck of a ride.