US AAirways A330 forgets to take the wrapper off a catering truck
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Forget Airbus, I'm buying the cockpit portion and using for my home simulator. Then I can feel like @Derg as I practice my instrument procedures and learn to flare 200 feet above the ground.
Forget Airbus, I'm buying the cockpit portion and using for my home simulator. Then I can feel like @Derg as I practice my instrument procedures.
Thousand above, cleared to land, all green.
Minuteman
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"Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. is an American film production studio of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment"
No mercy. Root-kit-makers. Sony should fail.
BACK OFFICE NAO!
Roger Roger
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Voodoo accounting. Little bit of bonus depreciation, generous estimate of repair cost, and boom, big old check.
ComplexHiAv8r
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Tell me about a time.....jtrain609 said:
Baronpilot244
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I'll second that! Nearly got hit yesterday evening taxiing to the gate - I was sitting in the back of a DAL MD88 headed back to work. CA hit the brakes v hard and out of the window I saw a tug and luggage cart headed towards the right engine also braking heavily! Crazy barstewards!
Bp244
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/plane-skids-off-runway-in-rifle
This Falcon had some damage that was pretty impressive. The "double hull" around the fuel tanks was torn up enough to rupture the fuel tank. That in itself is impressive because those aircraft are built like nothing I have seen before. The aircraft went back to Falcon was thrown in a jig and had new wings built. It is now flying again. It was worth it to the manufacture.
PeanuckleCRJ
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So.... apparently the driver was swooping in on each aircraft in the bay shining the truck lights on the ship number on the nose gear doors.
There may or may not have been a number of empty mini-bottles located in the truck.
It'll be interesting to see if they can repair that amount of bulkhead damage.
There may or may not have been a number of empty mini-bottles located in the truck.
It'll be interesting to see if they can repair that amount of bulkhead damage.
Pilot Fighter
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Forget about the cost of the repair relative to the cost of a new aircraft.
In addition to the repairs, this aircraft would probably require a d-check. So, you need to look at the cost of the repair relative to the cost of purchasing an aircraft that just needs a d-check. Due to the cost of a d-check, many airlines and leasing companies park planes when it's time for a d-check.
So, this airline, insurer, or leasing company would be evaluating this aircraft's engineless, d-check value, taking into consideration age, cycles, etc before going ahead with repairs. I didn't notice where this aircraft was located, it's not cheap transporting this aircraft to the nearest heavy depot facility.
Given how many airworthy aircraft are parked, it's a buyers market. Also, if an airline has available reserve aircraft in storage, they may not want to spend $1 to repair.
FloridaLarry
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Crop Duster said, in part:
Many years ago, I was driving past the old Piper factory in Lock Haven, PA. A hurricane-created flood has buried a couple of dozen completed planes awaiting delivery to above the wings in mud. The water had receded, and the airframes had been hosed off enough for the insurance adjusters to do their thing.
I was on the way to my in-laws, so not in a hurry, and I detoured to to look at the write-offs. Home sims didn't exist yet, but I thought about buying a dirty Piper, cutting off the extraneous parts to leave the cockpit & cabin, and hanging it from a really big tree for the kids to play in. Missed opportunity!
Many years ago, I was driving past the old Piper factory in Lock Haven, PA. A hurricane-created flood has buried a couple of dozen completed planes awaiting delivery to above the wings in mud. The water had receded, and the airframes had been hosed off enough for the insurance adjusters to do their thing.
I was on the way to my in-laws, so not in a hurry, and I detoured to to look at the write-offs. Home sims didn't exist yet, but I thought about buying a dirty Piper, cutting off the extraneous parts to leave the cockpit & cabin, and hanging it from a really big tree for the kids to play in. Missed opportunity!
Champcar
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Speaking of idiots destroying airplanes... http://www.plus7minus5.co.uk/FlickedBizJet/FlickedBizJet.htm
Runincolorado
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Wow. Lucky to be alive after that.
dustoff17
Still trying to reach the Top Shelf
And so are its' idiot pilots......
Roger Roger
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Wait...what?
