KarmaPolice
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- Dec 8, 2004
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I just got back from a stage input where we got into Bagram and saw the carnage. I don't know how much anyone has heard of this one, but apparently a crew put the right main gear on a closed side of the runway. The nose gear ripped off and tore a hole down the belly like it was opening a can. The right main gear failed and just about ripped off so the right bottom side of the aircraft looks like someone took a knife and ripped it open. The fuselage is bent so the doors won't open, apu pod is torn open and destroyed, and the left main gear were blown and tweaked. Nobody I talked to could imagine it is a recoverable hull. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
My only hope is that management will see this as a wakeup call and make some improvements in how we are doing business, getting crews better rest, better support, and not pushing them to the limits now that we are a few years into this.
My only hope is that management will see this as a wakeup call and make some improvements in how we are doing business, getting crews better rest, better support, and not pushing them to the limits now that we are a few years into this.