physical injuries during walk-around

[FL030]

Welcome to my world when i'm not flying for pleasure. 40 hrs a week every week not just looking at but wrenching, beating, cursing, and caressing Boeings and Airbus'. Crawling on, in, underneath every possible surface, orifice, wheel well and engine that the plane has to offer.

Plenty of Skydrol (hydraulic fluid) stories. And yes at 3000 PSI could be a killer.
Ladders get a lot of us and plenty of head bumps until familiar with an aircraft type. There are certain cabin jobs of the lavatory variety that could be easily considered a bio hazard as well.

Cheers.

 

[JoeMhama]

How about "The Diamond" to the forehead from the trailing edge of the wing on just about all single engine Cessnas (well probably not the Caravan )? Not nearly as bad as the static wick story, but I'll bet I'm not the only one to get "The Diamond".

Ive got a diamond on my head, the crazy thing is I was wearing a hat when I walked into the flap, and it sliced right through, I needed a few stitches in my head, luckily the scar is in my hair so you dont notice it

 

[Yank McCobb]

Look. If the dam* thing flew in, it'll fly out.

Remember this, and you will never ever suffer another senseless, stupid injury while conducting a walk-around.

 

[Corona]

How about "The Diamond" to the forehead from the trailing edge of the wing on just about all single engine Cessnas (well probably not the Caravan )? Not nearly as bad as the static wick story, but I'll bet I'm not the only one to get "The Diamond".

I've missed the "Cessna Diamond Inkless Tattoo" so far, but one day I was just about to hop in a 172 and, just as I ducked under the extended flap, a strong gust of wind blew sand in my eyes. As my eyes instinctively shut, I made the stupid decision to continue into the cockpit, trying to duck under the flap with my eyes closed. Unfortunately, I needed to duck about 2 inches lower, and got the corner of the flap squarely in the forehead, making a nice 1-inch gash.

Yeah, you feel pretty stupid flying with a bandage prominently displayed on yo' noggin.

C

 

[NuGuy]

Death Race 2000 - Sly Stallone's finest work! Nice job on the obscure reference!!.

One underappriciated piece of cinema to be sure...

Nu

 

[Lear2460]

Not an aircraft injury, but some lovely NetJets pilots had a great view and a laugh.


I was carrying 3 golf bags, and 2 large roll suitcases with the little bags on top of the rollers.....so let's just say my 5'4 120# frame was maxed with luggage, but I was determined to just get it done in one trip. So I lugged it off a golf cart, and proceeded to walk backwards into the FBO through the huge sliding glass doors we have. Normally, I would not have walked backwards, but for some reason, it made walking easier. Everything's going great until the doors slide open and my heel catches the **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** carpet at the edge of the door. I proceeded in slow-motion to land flat on my back on slate flooring with a bunch of luggage in front of 2 pilots sitting on a bench 5 feet away. They laughed, and thanked me for the show, saying that was the most graceful fall they had ever seen.

Me, I laid there for a second on the slate flooring...and then picked my pride up.

I also was disconnecting a GPU and had an air jockey hooked up to it to take it away after departure. I don't know what the heck I was thinking, but I walked directly into the tow bar with both legs completely flipping me forward. Lost my pride on that one too as the pax were watching that show out their windows...... also walked away with 2 gashes and bruises from the towbar on my shins....

 

[Huggyu2]

Preflighting a C-206 for the CAP, I got distracted, and walked right into the trailing edge of the right wing. I was wearing some Ray-Ban Wayfarers, and they were cut in half; however, I walked away with a little more than an embarrassed ego. Had I not had the glasses, I would have a scar today.

I know plenty of guys with "Falcon bites" from their F-16 walk-arounds.

 

[bssthound]

When I was a cadet our group got to look at an F-16. Walking around the wing not watching where I was going I turned around just in time to dent the wingtip missile rail with my melon. OUCH!! Most importantly, nobody saw me 'cause as we used to say in the F-4 community, "better dead than embarrassed."

 

[A Squared]

One day I was checking the adi fluid tank behind #4 on a DC-6, which had been puking some oil. I slid off the training edge of wing and broke both my heels. spent 10 weeks in a wheelchair and still carry around a whole handful of titanium screws. Did I win?