ASA RJ Electrical Fire

Train, I know your comment was sort of in jest, but in reality (and I'm sure Howard can chime in here) patching the hole is the least of their worries. Just about every electrical system in the aircraft passes through that area and the MILES of wiring they are going to have to replace is something I don't even want to think about.
 
I'd imagine the bill on that could come close to the percentage needed to call it a total loss for the insurance company.....
 
I can't imagine the amount of re-wiring that must be done to fix that. I have seen insurance companies do dumb things in the past when I worked at Duncan.

I watched our Aviations guy re-wire a G-III....It in there for months and I don't know how they kept it all straight, wire were hanging everywhere. To make things harder now the feds don't want mx stensiling numbers on the wires anymore either...
 
BobDDuck said:
patching the hole is the least of their worries. Just about every electrical system in the aircraft passes through that area and the MILES of wiring they are going to have to replace is something I don't even want to think about.
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Is there nothing it can't fix?:)
 

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Doug Taylor said:
I was DFW-based from 2000 thru 2005 and didn't know there was one there!
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Or maybe it was ATL. I thought there was one sitting by the maintenance hangar at one of those places for a good while. May have been an MD-11, but I could swear there was an retired L-1011 languishing at one of those fields parked at the corner of the Mx ramp.

Or I'm smoking crack......:D
 
There's a 747 on Guam that did a gear up landing a couple years ago or something and hasn't flown since. It will probably be there for awhile also....
 
Killtron2000 said:
There's a 747 on Guam that did a gear up landing a couple years ago or something and hasn't flown since. It will probably be there for awhile also....
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I still remember sitting at Last Chance arming area at the approach end of 27 at Osan, Korea waiting for takeoff after arming one day, and watching as a Tower Air 747-100/200 was on final and shedding engine cowling parts for about the last 2 miles of it's final approach. There were some cowling panels hanging off of it as it passed by me touching down. Was grounded on the spot after landing.
 
MikeD said:
Or maybe it was ATL. I thought there was one sitting by the maintenance hangar at one of those places for a good while. May have been an MD-11, but I could swear there was an retired L-1011 languishing at one of those fields parked at the corner of the Mx ramp.

Or I'm smoking crack......:D
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No, you're not. It was an MD-11 in ATL which had an engine fire and burned through the spar. Delta just parked it and used it for parts. When the MD-11s finally went away, Delta had to restore the airframe to an airworthy standand for the lessor. Don't know the ship #, but it should be flying with whoever took the planes. (FDX maybe?)

And drugs are baad, mmkay?
 
Doug Taylor said:
Don't smoke crack. It's bad for you.
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That jetbridge in TLH has a LONG history of screwing up airplanes. Everybody insists it's not the jetbridges fault. I was there 3 weeks ago and it fried one of my pack controllers.....things that make you go hmmmmmmm!
 
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