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Ground vehicle hits nose of American MD80 at BWI
An American Airlines official says a tow vehicle on the ground hit the nose of a parked jet at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (www.seattlepi.com) Ещё...
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Most likely, I wouldn't even think they were getting the new paint scheme...
It looks like an expensive hit. At 1st blush, it looks like it got the radar and probably into some of the electronics bay. With the early Mad Digs on the block for sale/trade/scrap, you may have very well gotten the last flight.
It's got at least ONE more flight to go: A ferry flight to Roswell where many of it's siblings are in mothballs...
LOL, I doubt it... An impact like that will probably ground it.. It will probably join its fellow grounded planes arriving by truck in pieces.
Might it not be cheaper to replace the radome with another used one of similar vintage, than to disassemble the entire plane and truck it cross country.
probably will and that is probably what will be done if nothing else, such as the nose gear or other electronics, are not damaged.
When a Tug hits a plane they usually don't stop on a dime... Any driver of a tug that hits a plane is NOT paying attention. If he hit the RADOME, the first order if business is what underlying damage is there... If they are lucky they got by with minor bulkhead damage and since it is a pressure bulk head they may have to due repairs there. They may b eable to do a temp repair, but Fairy is not possible with bulk head damage.
I thought they could ferry if the didn't pressurize and stayed under 10 grand
When you have a dent or potential crack it is difficult to do because it is a structural area... that is where all the stringers come together up front... A dent up there could affect a stringer and also your over structure of the aircraft... Engineering will have to evaluate to see if they can ferry that way.. But too much structural damage will knock it down...
Note Japan Airlines Flight 123 that crashed on crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara. Even though this was from a repair that was done in correctly (by Boeing) it was a bulkhead failure that caused the crash. At the point they went down, they were of course pressurized, but still below 10K I believe when they lost their Vertical Stabilizer.
Note Japan Airlines Flight 123 that crashed on crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara. Even though this was from a repair that was done in correctly (by Boeing) it was a bulkhead failure that caused the crash. At the point they went down, they were of course pressurized, but still below 10K I believe when they lost their Vertical Stabilizer.
Thanks. I wasn't imagining the potential damage to the structural elements and bulkhead. The reports kept focusing in the radome. So my comment would only be relevant is the damage was almost exclusively in the radome as reported.
If the structure or bulkhead was involved, that may drastically change the calculus.
If the structure or bulkhead was involved, that may drastically change the calculus.
The news media only knows what they are told.... the Radome area covers a lot of space... If it was as simple as a Radome, it would have been replaced and a/c out of there before the news had time to report it. It takes 5 minutes to change one of those... 2 pins on a hinge and 4 quick lock fasteners and done.
http://flightaware.com/photos/view/1126680-741bef8954edf3c173212b87bcaac89b8b744993/all/sort/date/page/1