FedEx A310 got a little...jacked up.

[ChasenSFO]

Story time?

Moar pics here.

 

[Champcar]

Ouch, someone has some explaining to do.

 

[jskibo]

 

[Roger Roger]

I saw those on the book of face, that is pretty epic.

 

[Finny]

Oh that? Nah, that'll buff right out.

 

[fholbert]

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight!

 

[fholbert]

My guess is the forklift caused the problem. Look at the damage on the flap ahead of the ram..

 

[tiredcfi]

Off to the scrap yard!

 

[derg]

 

[jynxyjoe]

No one is gonna scream about that never would have happened to a Boeing?

 

[milleR]

I sure hope nobody was hurt when that thing dropped off the jacks.

 

[ChasenSFO]

No one is gonna scream about that never would have happened to a Boeing?

The A310 has a yoke, so of course not.

 

[jynxyjoe]

The A310 has a yoke, so of course not.

You win this round Khan!

 

[USMCmech]

I've seen jacks poke into airplanes before, but I've never seen one completely fall off all four before.

 

[Finny]

My guess is the forklift caused the problem. Look at the damage on the flap ahead of the ram..

I'm thinking you're right. A small bump by a forklift and that's all she wrote.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I've seen jacks poke into airplanes before, but I've never seen one completely fall off all four before.

I hate, hate, hate, having the Twin Bonanza on jacks; it seems to me that one little puff of anything anywhere (even in the hangar) and, well, the rest is above.

The airplane is in a flying state, but not actually flying. A most unnatural thing definitely best combined to helicopters.

 

[knot4u]

Time for the Way Back Machine- In 1994 we had a Bearcat on jacks at KVNY when the Northridge quake hit. Somehow the whole assembly of jacks, tailweight and airplane scooted sideways across the hangar intact. A weeble wobbles but it doesn't fall down.

 

[motoboy]

New meaning to "drop dead maintenance."

 

[97victor]

Maybe someone forgot to put the gear pins back in.

 

[knot4u]

Maybe someone forgot to put the gear pins back in.

If you've got 3 green it shouldn't matter.