Jetway vs. Airplane...

[TEXAN AVIATOR]

I think its safe to say the jetway won!
http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Weird-Plane-Crash.html

 

[Sinca3]

linky no worky

 

[ArcticFlier]

Me neither...........

 

[Weasil]

that link no worky for me either...

 

[gkrangers]

I'd like to apologize for TA's incompetence on his behalf.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

dang = dam_.

 

[gkrangers]

Friggin swear filter...

Anyway, its a Mesaba Avro that crashed through a jetway and lost....

I talked it about it in a class the other week but I don't remember the cause.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

The anti-cursing software changed the link name. Go change DANG to DAM N in the link.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Nevermind...DAM-N filter.

 

[NavajoKing]

So how did they pull that one off?

 

[8HourPilot]

Maint was taxing the Avro (528 if I'm not mistaken). Was a fun day to be in the CP's office.

 

[Lear70]

That's an old picture.

Story was the MX guy was repositioning it from the hangar and somehow managed to kill the hydraulic pumps.

Lost the brakes and ran right into the jetbridge. Pure incompetence, nothing wrong with the airplane mechanically.

The mechanic had previously been employed at Pinnacle Airlines, but had been asked to resign for his history of unsafe behavior. Unfortunately, with no discipline ON RECORD, he was able to go to Mesaba without his past being known... until he bent that airplane.

I seem to recall they totaled the aircraft, something about bending the main spar that runs up the longitudinal axis of the aircraft...

Old story.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Looks like the guy in the 5th picture down crapped himself.

 

[gkrangers]

That's an old picture.

Story was the MX guy was repositioning it from the hangar and somehow managed to kill the hydraulic pumps.

Lost the brakes and ran right into the jetbridge. Pure incompetence, nothing wrong with the airplane mechanically.

The mechanic had previously been employed at Pinnacle Airlines, but had been asked to resign for his history of unsafe behavior. Unfortunately, with no discipline ON RECORD, he was able to go to Mesaba without his past being known... until he bent that airplane.

I seem to recall they totaled the aircraft, something about bending the main spar that runs up the longitudinal axis of the aircraft...

Old story.

Something about 2 engines ran hydraulic pumps..and 2 ran generators..so if you taxiied without either of the engines that ran the hydraulic pumps you could lose all your pressure after a few applications of the breaks. Does that sound right?

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Surely it has electric pumps too. I mean, its not a Citation.

 

[ArcticFlier]

That's an old picture.

Story was the MX guy was repositioning it from the hangar and somehow managed to kill the hydraulic pumps.

Lost the brakes and ran right into the jetbridge. Pure incompetence, nothing wrong with the airplane mechanically.

The mechanic had previously been employed at Pinnacle Airlines, but had been asked to resign for his history of unsafe behavior. Unfortunately, with no discipline ON RECORD, he was able to go to Mesaba without his past being known... until he bent that airplane.

I seem to recall they totaled the aircraft, something about bending the main spar that runs up the longitudinal axis of the aircraft...

Old story.

Something similar happened in SLC several years ago. A mechanic taxiied one of our Brasilias into the "Y" (Y-shaped terminal)...............literally. don't remember all of the details, but a lack of hydraulics was the culprit if I remember correctly.

 

[gkrangers]

How much you wanna bet this turns into a bash fest of several different airlines in the next 10 posts?

 

[ArcticFlier]

~Grabs what's left of his blueberry/banana smoothie and waits for impending spool-up............................~

 

[WMUSIGPI]

I don't remember all the details of the incident. But the Avro had the generators on engines 1 and 4 and the hydraulic pumps on 2 and 3. I forget now which engine was primary for the break system but either could be selected if need be. As for the incident in question, if memory serves correct from ground school it had something to do with some circuit breakers being pulled that shouldn't have been as part of their maintenance work. Keep in mind my one and only Avro ground was 2 years ago now and the story is a bit foggy. I believe that hull was turned into the fire trainer for the MEM CFR.

 

[big shacks]

Approach end 36L

 

[Regional4life]

I don't remember all the details of the incident. But the Avro had the generators on engines 1 and 4 and the hydraulic pumps on 2 and 3. I forget now which engine was primary for the break system but either could be selected if need be. As for the incident in question, if memory serves correct from ground school it had something to do with some circuit breakers being pulled that shouldn't have been as part of their maintenance work. Keep in mind my one and only Avro ground was 2 years ago now and the story is a bit foggy. I believe that hull was turned into the fire trainer for the MEM CFR.

Close. Here's the background. MX was doing a runup to test the pressurization system and the mechanic took shortcuts. Instead of holding the squat override switches on the overhead test panel, he pulled the CB's to override the squat switch (definitely not following his job card). On completion of the runup test, he forgot to put the breakers back in. The engines thought they were in flight, so they idled at flight idle (significantly higher than ground idle). As the MX was taxiing in, he realized no brakes (the brakes don't apply when off squat switches, they stop at the anti-skid valves). He forgot about the squat switches, tried to switch to the green brakes (secondary brakes) but again, didn't work. If he would have switched to emergency brakes, he would have been fine as that automatically overrides the antiskid. But, he instead tried to use the DC pump on the overhead panel, which again, won't work because the plane thinks it's in the air. Regardless, FDR said the aircraft impacted the jetway at around 35 knots. (In otherwords, holy S$%@!!!!) Mechanic tried to lie about the incident on what happened but the little boxes that show pulled breakers don't lie. Lost his job (and a 25 million dollar airplane).

 

[Regional4life]

I should also add that he is lucky that he didn't kill anyone. The outbound Captain was standing in the jetbridge waiting for the plane when it impacted the jetway. He suffered some injuries but fully recovered.