Eagle ramper hurt in DFW yesterday?

[CitationLover]

i was j/s on AA yesterday and the f/o asked if I knew anything about an eagle ramper walking into a 340 prop yesterday. he said he heard over the radio they were asking for emergency medical help over there.

does anybody have any info on this? i hope it is not true.

 

[Donsa320]

Citation lover

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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: EGF3259 Make/Model: SF34 Description: SF-340
Date: 10/25/2004 Time: 1840

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: None

LOCATION
City: DALLAS State: TX Country: US

DESCRIPTION
AMERICAN EAGLE, EGF3259, WHILE PUSHING OFF FROM THE GATE, THE TUG OPERATOR
JUMPED OFF THE TUG ADN WAS STUCK BY THE #2 PROP, AND SUSTAINED INJURIES TO
A FINGER AND AN ARM, DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, DALLAS, TX

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 29 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:

WEATHER: SPECI KDFW251826Z 19018KT 7SM OVC033CB 23/21 A2995



OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Maneuver Operation: Air Carrier

Departed: DFW Dep Date: 10/25/2004 Dep. Time:
Destination: KILLIAN, TX Flt Plan: UNK Wx Briefing: U
Last Radio Cont: UNK
Last Clearance: UNK

FAA FSDO: DFW AIRPORT, TX (SW07) Entry date: 10/26/2004

 

[NRHPilot]

The ramper was pushing back with a lektro tug when the tug swung around towards the #2 engine. The crew put the condition lever to the fuel off position, and as the engine was decelerating, he backed off the tug and in to the prop. I heard he has a broken collar bone. Very lucky.

 

[Skygod]

Eagle had a new ramper in ORD sustain serious injuries (but live) after walking into an ATR prop a few years ago. Several years before that an AA ramper on the Eagle ramp was killed by at ATR prop.

 

[Wasted]

We had a gate agent killed when he walked into an ATR prop in Little Rock a few years ago. Some who've flown that plane afterwards say that it is haunted...

 

[CitationLover]

yes i've talked to someone who was on the ground in LIT and witnessed the Coex ATR incident. evidently they notified the station manager that the left prop would be hot and he just walked right into it. sad.

 

[Captain X]

I think one of the NWAirlink SAAB operators had the same thing happen a few years ago as well.

I am amazed at how easy it is to end up in the "danger zone" of turning props and jet intakes and exhausts. I've seen crew members, ramp personnel and passengers do it.

The scariest -- I saw a Brasilia doing a single-engine turn and they were offloading the peeps.

This little girl, maybe 4 or 5, walks down the airstairs with her coloring book in her hand. Her mom was right behind her.

Anyhow, another airplane was taxiing out and the prop blast hits the offloading pax and blows the coloring book out of the little girls hand and right toward the right prop (which was turning in FX). The little girl immediately ran under the fuselage directly at the prop blade .

If it wasn't for the quick reaction of the ramper and the pilot who was doing a walk-around, I'm sure the little girl would have run right into that prop.

 

[fuzzy077]

The pilot was doing a walk around with a prop spinning?

 

[Captain X]

The pilot was doing a walk around with a prop spinning?

Yes.

I also think he was outside to make sure nothing like what almost happened happens.

I've seen several different turboprop carriers where they perform single engine turns and most all did a "walk around" while the other crew member remained on the flight deck. I'm not aware of any ground accident that has involved a flight deck crew member (from that airplane) -- only ground folks.

He (the pilot) gave the turning prop the required arc and everything else was cordoned off. While not an everyday occurence, this is not unheard of nor unsafe as long as one is congnizant of the danger. Keep in mind that many ramp personnel, MX folks, etc all operate around airplanes with operating engines every day.

 

[Deerkiller]

We pulled into a station one day and while waiting for the APU to start up i watched a ramper walk towards the #2 prop with a cone. She walked around the nose of the airplane with her head down, when she picked her head up she jumped about 5 feet backwards. I just about jumped out of my seat trying to get her attention. She still walked back towards it to put the cone in front of the prop. That cone must've been real important.