747 sitting on its tail
 

There’s a good thread on the topic -

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...ghlight=korean

But all pix and pic links are expired. Any pictures out there?

thanks y’all

Photo's are on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is old news....again. In fact this is the 'second' accident....the original accident was due to a ground staff error where the nose leg wqas retracted on the stand (along with the body gear!! during a test/check following a 'gear monitor' message. Whilst 'recovering' the aircraft with the body ger not lowered fully it tipped on its @r$e putting the tail support jack through the horizontal stab!!! Whoops...

A few more here !

cool pix, gents, thanx a bundle.

too bad it's never been caught on video...or has it?

didn't know you could retract lg w/ a/g safety switch in gnd mode.... was that a classic 47?

Not too uncommon in an MD11. I seem to remeber Korean doing the same in ANC as well a few years earlier. With the freight door at the front, it can be easy to tip it on it's bum if you've forgotten the tail stand.

My company flys 747Fs - we don't do any loading without a stand or a noseleg strop.

It's not too difficult in a Pax 747 either - as the air Canada picture shows. I was on the gate at a US airport when the load handlers loaded the rear bay before the front - against SOPs. We were in the cockpit preparing for the flight when the aircraft went into flight mode. We quickly realised the nose leg microswitch had opened. A very quick call to the groundcrew stopped the situation, but it was close.