Failed mob hit?

[Monkeyfist]

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 5152J Make/Model: C340 Description:
Date: 11/30/2004 Time: 1508

Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: LAFAYETTE State: LA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT WHILE PARKED AT A RAMP FOR MAINTENANCE, EXPLODED WHEN THE MAINTENANCE
WORKER TURNED ON THE MASTER SWITCH, WORKER SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES, THE
ACFT WAS DESTROYED, LAFAYETTE, LA

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

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED



OTHER DATA
Activity: Other Phase: Standing Operation: General Aviation

Departed: Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont:
Last Clearance:

FAA FSDO: BATON ROUGE, LA (SW03) Entry date: 12/01/2004

 

[mmmdonut]

emp..... oh forget it

 

[rumpletumbler]

haha.....its hard to find good help anymore. You could at least be classy enough to have the explosion activated by a wheel retracting into the well. Now that would make for a spiffy ending. I mean that would make it a done deal right? Also, most morons don't look in the wheel well on preflight so you wouldn't have to be careful. Just let the wires hang out on the tire etc.

 

[User546]

haha.....its hard to find good help anymore. You could at least be classy enough to have the explosion activated by a wheel retracting into the well. Now that would make for a spiffy ending. I mean that would make it a done deal right? Also, most morons don't look in the wheel well on preflight so you wouldn't have to be careful. Just let the wires hang out on the tire etc.

Wow, that's pretty good... so uh, you do this kind of thing on the side or something?

 

[avbug]

Mob hit? Industrial accident, perhaps. Why on earth might you suggest that it's a "mob hit?" What do you see in the brief report that you posted that would suggest any such thing?

Mechanics have been killed in hangars when using an electrical screwdriver touched off fuel vapors. When electrical faults have occured around fuel cells. During improper use of a torch. Or a soldering device. And so on.

I saw moisture in a battery master relay turn the aircraft power on and off, with the battery master switch off. In the process, various circuits were activated on their own, with no outside intervention. Had any of these circuits involved fuel, an explosion could easily have resulted. No mob. Not even the intervention of a human hand.

Mob hit???

 

[Brett Hull]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the mob comment was tongue-in-cheek.

 

[Monkeyfist]

avbug,



The brief report reminded me of a movie with Robert Deniro (Casino, I think), Near the end to the movie “Ace” gets into the car and turns the key



The car blows up and Deniro "Ace" sustains minor injuries due to the "steel plate" installed under the drivers seat



Failed mob hit



I thought it was humorous on some level (I’m not sure which)

IF I explained what I just did in the original post, then it loses the small shred of humor it may or may not have had

I would not have made the post if the mechanic suffered other than "minor injuries"
I sense from your reply that you interpret some disrespect toward the mechanic,
No injuries are funny and disrespect was not my intention