Worst mishap at an FBO

[USMCmech]

At SAT our guys were towing a MD-11 and hit a Lear 45 elevator with the winglet. It completely twisted the vertical stab. The Lear had to be disasembled and trucked away.

There were some VERY unhappy people about that one.

 

[Learsforsale]

At SAT our guys were towing a MD-11 and hit a Lear 45 elevator with the winglet. It completely twisted the vertical stab. The Lear had to be disasembled and trucked away.

There were some VERY unhappy people about that one.

We have had several incidents of vehicles running into aircraft. We had an older gentleman that held down the night shift for several years. But he was getting a little too old, and started taking lessons from the Florida retiree school of driving. He was driving the beloved golf cart around the ramp looking for errant cones and chocks when he failed to notice the Falcon 50 that he was rapidly approaching. He ended up hitting the trailing edge of the right airleron at full speed, slicing open his head, and completely decapitating the golf cart.

We had another vehicle to aircraft accident several months later when a lineman was parking a plane using the "Follow me" van. He pulled through the empty space and parked the van at an angle. He throw it in Park and hopped out to marshell in the aircraft. He did not completely reach the "P" for park and shifter slipped back to "R" and proceeded drive in reverse until it was stopped by a Cit X. Line man was terminated in a drawn out way.

 

[wmuflyguy]

When I worked as a line-guy in college at the univeristy. Had a guy towing a 172, he deciede to drive it at soemthing like 15 mph and the tow bar broke away frome the nose gear.

The 172's torque links snaps and it does an abrupt right turn right into 2 other parked 172's. I was standing in the hanger waiting for this guy to bring me the airplane and heard a loud bang, knew that wasn't good. The line guy was not fired.

A couple months later he was on a solo flight and on his 7th landing, he lands side loaded goes of the side of the runway and shears the left main gear off the 172 he was flying. As far as I know he was still a line guy working on his Instrument rating. His nickname was "crunchy".

 

[NYYfan]

had a old lear 23 i think it was land on a sunday and the crew went off to the hotel pretty quickly.

next morning i was in for the 5am shift when i happen to look out of the hangar window and see the lear with the left wing tip about 8ft up in the air and the right wing tip 4 inches off the ground. Had to wake up the pilot and it took about 350 gallons to even it out.

Story i heard from the guys i worked with was that my old boss had a md 83 on the ramp and had to dump the lav so he hooked up with our lav cart which maybe holds 10 gallons. Well i guess about 10 seconds after pulling the chain the connection broke and the boss got covered head to tail in the blue juice.

Now we fast forward a few years and he and i had to dump a lav on a falcon 2000 so we were both under the plane and he takes the cap off and let me just say ive never moved so fast. I didnt get a drop on me, he unfortunatley does not have good luck.

 

[dskflyr]

Short Air Force Career

During the mid to late 90's a young Security Police Airman managed to drive his Malibu police car under the wing/fuselage of an F-15. Ouch@!!!

 

[FlyingPieceOfSt]

had a old lear 23 i think it was land on a sunday and the crew went off to the hotel pretty quickly.

next morning i was in for the 5am shift when i happen to look out of the hangar window and see the lear with the left wing tip about 8ft up in the air and the right wing tip 4 inches off the ground. Had to wake up the pilot and it took about 350 gallons to even it out.

That happens to many 20 Series Lears. The ole lazy Flapper Valve.

 

[Lostdog65]

Another one I heard about a few years ago, although I don't know if it was an FBO or not, was a kid who hit the tail of a DC-4 with a forklift so hard that it was almost ripped completely off. The plane was on contract with the Forest Service as an Air Tanker, but was unrepairable from what I remember.

He was a ramp-rat at the Lancaster Air Tanker Base. Surprising how much damage a forklift can do to a DC-4! Saw the plane that year...it hurt just looking at it!

Eric

 

[skipper1]

had a old lear 23 i think it was land on a sunday and the crew went off to the hotel pretty quickly.

next morning i was in for the 5am shift when i happen to look out of the hangar window and see the lear with the left wing tip about 8ft up in the air and the right wing tip 4 inches off the ground. Had to wake up the pilot and it took about 350 gallons to even it out.

Story i heard from the guys i worked with was that my old boss had a md 83 on the ramp and had to dump the lav so he hooked up with our lav cart which maybe holds 10 gallons. Well i guess about 10 seconds after pulling the chain the connection broke and the boss got covered head to tail in the blue juice.

Now we fast forward a few years and he and i had to dump a lav on a falcon 2000 so we were both under the plane and he takes the cap off and let me just say ive never moved so fast. I didnt get a drop on me, he unfortunatley does not have good luck.

Thats funny! I used to work for Swissport in IAD and I was dumping the lav on a SwissAir A330 and the connection popped off. Just as you said, I also have never moved so fast! Not a drop on myself! Must have looked quite funny to anyone who saw it though!

 

[ExpWayVis31]

Worst mishap at an FBO ?? Was when I walked in the door and told them that I wanted to take flying lessons.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Worst mishap at an FBO ?? Was when I walked in the door and told them that I wanted to take flying lessons.

:laugh:

:bawling:

CE

 

[ExpWayVis31]

CE
I see that you feel my pain.

The good news...only 14 more years until I depart the pattern...assuming age 60...55 would be even better.

 

[Hand Commander]

He was a ramp-rat at the Lancaster Air Tanker Base. Surprising how much damage a forklift can do to a DC-4! Saw the plane that year...it hurt just looking at it!

Yeah, I think I would vomit myself to sleep for the next couple of years just thinking about it (if I had been responsible for it). Was it an Ardco plane? Minden, maybe? I can't remember. Anyway, I was trying to find a picture of the damage and came across this sweet P2V shot (not trying to hijack, just thought it was cool). Didn't find a damage picture though. http://www.cdf-firefighters.org/images/photos/submissions/tankerdropT-16%20Robert%20Rixx.jpg

 

[KingDriver]

Flew a beechjet to PBI and another crew from our company flew a Kingair in at lunchtime. We all went to lunch together and got a call from the FBO telling us that another crew had left a renta-car on the ramp in gear and ran it into the prop of our parked kingair.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

CE
I see that you feel my pain.

The good news...only 14 more years until I depart the pattern...assuming age 60...55 would be even better.

I can't wait that long.
Have another beer. Make that JD....and leave the bottle.

CE

 

[FlyBigE]

FIRST:

Back in '99 one Jack Roush's P-51 came in and parked for several hours. When the pilot returned he started up and taxi forward taking the tail completely off a Ductchess. The P-51 only had a dented spinner and nicked prop. The Dutchess was trucked out a few weeks later...

SECOND:

In the middle of winter one our rampies gets in a rush and goes running over to park a light twin and slips. Thankfully his leg catches the nose wheel before he gets into the props. Unfortunately, he shatters his ankle quite badly....(DON'T RUN ON ICY RAMPS....)