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Fayez Butts posted:You gotta understand just how huge the A380 is. Doing some very rough math, and seeing that it looks like it was the very tip of the wing that hit that jet, the pilots were around 300 feet away from the point of impact. That's loving crazy. After looking at the video it appears to me that the F150 that came from left to right probably caused the RJ to slow it's roll into the stand and in doing so the clearance the A380 crew thought they had was lost. Also, I bet that made a cool sound. 
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Some Skywest Captain killed his girlfriend and as a fugitive jumped the airport fence, hopped in a CRJ200 and ran it into a parking lot. Ended it all with a gun in the plane. I can’t wait to see the kneejerk reaction from this. Aeronautical Insanity? Kerosene19 fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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http://avherald.com/h?article=45cb7632&opt=0 Fedex dropped another md11...
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MagnumHB posted:Well, not just any building apparently. The FlightSafety International building to boot. poo poo just got real when you can die in the sim.
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http://youtu.be/HKyzBIuvF30 I've seen a fair number of helo crashes but this is new.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=iicBBsEeYYs Pokemon go?
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Still love the lines of the 757. IIRC I took this one right around the last weeks before AA absorbed TWA. Lots of cool old ramp guys got the shaft  
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https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/putting-ed-force-one-back-together-again/ Ed Force One took a solid beating in Santiago last year...
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Captain Postal posted:You have to consider what Uber + Google means for cars and scale that up. I'm imagining a joint venture called Guber.
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/RachelEPas/status/875065527726727169 Right over the trench drain too. That's a huge pain in the rear end.
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MrChips posted:No don't This is the truth.
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I saw it taxi out of the FBO while I was on the perimeter VSR, I knew I could make it in time because they always run the engines at high power for at least a minute before releasing the brakes. https://youtu.be/4baY70-p2BI woof.
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Thankfully it looks as though it worked as designed, containment took the hit and left all the broken poo poo behind in the wake rather than escaping laterally. About 10 years ago American had a turbine disk come apart during a maintenance run at full power and it sent parts through the pack bay, piercing fuel tanks and causing a fire. One part of the disk was found stuck on the outboard side of the #2 (right) engine and another part was found 2600 feet away in a parking lot. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=04a348cc-c558-4408-b54e-f04bf8a5caf0
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tactlessbastard posted:It'll buff out But did it make a cool noise?
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I saw Aeroflot do something similar with an IL96 back in the 90's out of SEA. They just removed the fan blades on #1 and safety wired the core to the inlet guides to keep it from windmilling. Rumor is that it left with pax on board back to SVO which to be honest wouldn't be that surprising considering how much shady poo poo they did back then until the FAA smacked them down.
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To contribute, back in the early 90’s after the fall of the iron curtain I was a commercial intoplane fueling manager and had regular dealings with Aeroflot shortly after they started scheduled service into the United States. I witnessed things that were shady, janky and some that were just outright loving dangerous. The first couple years of service they used IL96’s to run a loop of SVO/SFO/SEA/SVO with some TU154’s and IL62’s sprinkled in to some of the more eastern coastal states often stopping in ANC for tech stops. This transitioned to 777’s when FAA had enough and forced them to fly more modern and compliant aircraft if they wanted to land in the USA. In the early days though the Ilyushins and Tupolevs would commonly arrive with all main gear tires showing cords around the whole tire. You could also find patch jobs on the fuselages where they had been hit by flak over Afghanistan when serving as state troop transports. The guys that were there for the startup flights recounted stories to me of folks that were immigrating to the states bringing livestock with them. Yes, that’s right goats in the aisles. Obviously the dept of fish and feathers and the FDA didn’t allow that. The Aeroflot station managers were usually on a 3 month rotation for visa reasons, but there was one thing common to them all. Smuggling. If US Customs wasn’t directly observing, the first thing out the cabin door on arrival was a duffel bag with who knows what that went straight into the trunk of the managers ramp vehicle before passengers started to get off. This did not occur when Govt agents were watching. On the IL96’s going to SVO we would fill using 3 10,000 usg tanker trucks simultaneously, usually one behind the left and right wings and one nosed up in front of the right wing between the #3 and #4 engines. Hearing the engine igniters clicking while refueling was a normal occurrence, to quote the Aeroflot engineer this was “not problem”. Eventually this led to a case where they actually engaged the starter and the #1 engine started with a fuel truck directly behind it. There was much chao and WTF to be had. The fueling system was unintelligible unless you could read Cyrillic. Also the fuel port poppets that kept fuel in the manifold had a habit of sticking in the up position. We had one incident where the first guy to empty his truck went to disconnect and it stuck. There were 3 other hoses connected to the manifold pumping at 35 psi at a combined rate of a little over 1000 gpm. He took a fuel bath the likes of which had not been seen in years. Trip to the ER for a proper decon and rash treatment. Fuel got behind his eyeballs. SOP after that was for all trucks to stop pumping and close nozzle valves prior to any disconnection. On one particularly foggy morning, an IL62 made not one but two instrument approaches directly over 1st avenue in Burien, which is just west of SEA. That one made the nightly news. Of course, they weren’t the only ones doing dumb poo poo. One of my fuelers was absolutely fascinated by the brake cooling fan inlets, he was amused by the fact that the vacuum would hold his gloves to the housing. What was not amusing was that when he reached to grab his glove his hand was drawn in and a solid 3rd of his ring finger was removed with great efficiency before he could withdraw. Yes, there was a read and sign…
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e.pilot posted:This.   One dot right- T’was another foggy morning, RVR was down to the 600’s across the board for most of the morning so as far as arrivals went it was going to be one of those dumpster fire days. Lots of diversions when it’s thick means you are going to get schwacked with those diverted flights once it lifts. I was not looking forward to dealing with it at all. Around 1000 am the layer of fog started to lift to about 75/100’ AGL. I was getting a GPU set up on some sort of Citation when I heard a noise that I shouldn’t be hearing. I stopped, looked to my left and that’s when a DC-8 freighter dropped out of the fog layer a good 300/400 yards right of runway centerline directly over my head. The pilots of this DC-8 must have been the cowboy boot wearing types because they weren’t going around. I like to think that it was because the LaQuinta inn stopped serving continental breakfasts at 1100. They pitched it hard left and corrected right with a hard slip and planted it loving hard on the runway well past the regular touchdown zone. Now the DC-8 is a tough airframe and all that but in this case they pushed just a little too hard. An entire wheel and tire broke off the right truck and was on it’s way to find freedom. One of those poignant visual moments in my career was watching that wheel pass between the #3 and #4 engines on braking, roll in a right arc through the infield and then at what I would guess was still about 100 kts come crashing to a halt in the middle of an airlines breakroom. Thankfully, nobody was hurt because the breakroom was empty due to all the ramp agents working the mess of late arrivals. Never heard what happened with the two cowboys up front but I can’t imagine the discussions with the FSDO and Chief Pilot were pleasant ones.
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Platystemon posted:San Diego has this big stain which might be a firefighting training pad ??? Looks more like a staging area for fuel trucks, the stain is the tire marks from hard turnouts.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I was staring out this window for about 30 minutes before I realized something was weird. First time I saw that paint job I had to pause on the VSR at what I was seeing. A tribute to all the TWA employees they hosed over.
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Someone forgot to check the gear pins, that’s a paddlin’. 
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glynnenstein posted:I just realized how much blood is on the outside of the plane. hmmm, is it still considered snarge?
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I recall back in the late 90’s deicing a USPS 727 in a heavy snowfall and did at least 4 laps around the drat thing and never got it clean. On the last lap the crew (all three were wearing cowboy boots btw) radios my driver and says to him “just do your best and we will be on our way”. We protested but at the end of the day it’s the captain’s airplane. I’ll never forget the rock in my stomach watching that one line up and take off knowing there was at least 1/8” of fresh slush on the wings and tail. Also just lol at the pic of their heated spray bottle. Using that on anything other than a frosty 172 is just mind-blowingly loving stupid.
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Jealous Cow posted:Were they trying to block it from hitting any aircraft wit the vehicles? It’s hard to tell. I'd hope they are, I have done so in the past and would do it again.
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Speaking of Antonovs overhead. I took this last summer. https://youtu.be/4baY70-p2BI
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vulturesrow posted:Flying under bridges is also a very important simulator event. Quoting for truth. Golden Gate Tacoma Narrows
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Finger Prince posted:I seem to recall it happening before, many years ago. I can't remember what airport. PDX June 2013. shame on an IGA posted:Ouch. The worst thing a facilities manager can ever do is remind someone they exist. Truth right here.
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United plunked one down good in EWR. https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1139956804912406528/photo/1 Ooof Kerosene19 fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Spaced God posted:gently caress.  Go easy old girl.
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https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Plane-off-runway-at-Unalaska-Airport-563346322.html PenAir had a booboo in Dutch Harbor yesterday. Looks like the #1 prop came apart and entered the cabin. One dead and another in bad shape.
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https://twitter.com/SeaTacAirport/status/1220812126404526080 Nothing can possibly go wrong with this lift.
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This seems relevant to the current discussion of contained failures etc. https://www.flightglobal.com/pictur...e/67818.article Through the cowl, packbay and stuck in the engine on the other side.
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