What stupid stuff have you done?

BCTAv8r said:
Haven't really done anything yet but we had a guy pump 200 gallons of Avgas into an MU-2 last week.
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Forgot one:
When I was filling up the tip tanks of a Mu-2, I had forgotten to do a half-fill on one side, then move to the other, then come back and fill the first one to the top. Almost tipped the ugly thing over...

Lovely aircraft, the Mu-2...
 
Scandinavian13 said:
Later, when I was working for IDE at IAD, I got completely owned by the lav cart. I got smurfed. Massively...
Basically, I was trying to put the juice back into a CRJ and the valve at the end of the hose got stuck, but I didn't know because I moved the lever to the open position. Sure enough, the pressure built up, burst the pipe, and turned me blue.

Let me tell you, it was gross. It was a hot day, so I was already sweaty. The blue juice had been sitting in a hot lav cart all day, so it was hot when it hit me. I was then blue, covered in hot liquid, and smelled like a lav, albeit a clean one.

I got several worried looks when I walked through the terminal to go to the bathroom to rinse off.
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Damn. Sort of the same thing happened to me as well when I was pumping blue juice into a Falcon. The hose had a small hole I didn't see and eventually the pressure go to it and a it turned into a huge hole. Didn't get to me but the right side of the Falcon was all blue.:banghead:
 
Taha said:
We had a guy back a 6,000 gallon fuel truck into a 172. He didn't realize he had hit something and kept going. Tore off the entire right wing.
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Niiiiiiiiiiice. This is entertaining, do you guys have any more?

This one's from a while back but a guy I used to work with opened up both Hangar doors on opposite ends of the MX hangar in order to quickly pull out a buried twin. Well, it was a windy day and the inside of the hangar became a venturi. Knocked a Mooney down off some hoists. You can only imagine the p*ssed off look of the floor mechanics.
 
Working at a smaller GA airport, theres not a whole lot to mess up, but the most stupid thing I have done was not being able to get a fuel cap off an airplane, not because it was sticking (it was a bit though), but I was turning the freaking thing the wrong way.

And trying to start the flight school airplanes with a leaned mixture doesn't work to well either. Damn thing wont turn ov......wtf?.......o...oooooooh :D
 
i was riding in the back of a john deer gator that we used to tow aircraft one day. the driver was had it floored in reverse turn too sharp and rolled it. i was launched out but used my ninja skills to land safely.
 
I was overwing fueling a Caravan on a very cold, windy, icy day. Gusts were 35+, one hit me, came off of the ladder. My first thought was grab the pidot, but elected to take the ten foot fall as opposed to tearing it off.

This one wasn't my fault, it was the coyboy freight pilots, but still pretty funny. About 0330, MU-2 on a GPU, both engines started. I was on the GPU, and there was a guy up front to taxi him out. He decided he did not want to wait for me to pull the plug. Blasts out of his spot almost killing the other line guy and proceeded to his destination....the FAA was there waiting for him. Someone told me he tried to deny it to them, but the end of the GPU plug, along with about a foot of cable, was still attached and had beaten the crap out of the left side.
 
beechpilot said:
Yep.......wonder who did that one....................:o
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:eek: Thank you for not doing that to me this winter!! Who'd you get?

We had some great stories at my old shop. Line guy who forgot to reel in the hose on the OLD (1953) AvGas truck before driving away. The metal handle, combined with concrete and a slightly leaky pump ended with a slowly rolling fireball. When the lineman saw the flame in the rear view mirror, he decided he didn't want to be in the 1200gal bomb anymore, so he jumped out. Didn't bother stopping the truck, just jumped out. The chief mechanic tells the story best, as he was the first person to see the empty truck rolling across the infield with a lineman chasing it. The truck came to wrest in the overrun short of rwy 19. The flame never got passed the pump, but was being fed by just enough gas to keep it burning. The fire dept responded quickly, but all they could do was lob water at the tank to keep it cool, while the CFIs went to get marshmallows for everyone.

Or the time the line guy opened the bi-fold mx shop door to the SE hight before pulling the company 414 out. The sound of the empenage hitting the ground could be heard from the south hangar, about 1/8th a mile away.

Worst I ever did...we had to stack the south hanger in a big hurry, because there were severe storms rolling in. We had to get a 402, a Seneca, 2 Skyhawks, and a 182RG into a hangar that's much too small for all that. While shuffling things around, another line guy used the airhorse to pull a Skyhawk out, and park it on a grass hill next to the hangar entrance. When I went to push the plane back into the hangar, I figured, if it could make it down the hill it could make it back up with no problem. Turns out, it couldn't. At the top of the hill the elevator got caught under the concrete slab...bent the back four inches of the elevator about 90 degrees. Fun afternoon for me.
 
Teller1900 said:
:eek: Thank you for not doing that to me this winter!! Who'd you get?

We had some great stories at my old shop. Line guy who forgot to reel in the hose on the OLD (1953) AvGas truck before driving away. The metal handle, combined with concrete and a slightly leaky pump ended with a slowly rolling fireball. When the lineman saw the flame in the rear view mirror, he decided he didn't want to be in the 1200gal bomb anymore, so he jumped out. Didn't bother stopping the truck, just jumped out. The chief mechanic tells the story best, as he was the first person to see the empty truck rolling across the infield with a lineman chasing it. The truck came to wrest in the overrun short of rwy 19. The flame never got passed the pump, but was being fed by just enough gas to keep it burning. The fire dept responded quickly, but all they could do was lob water at the tank to keep it cool, while the CFIs went to get marshmallows for everyone.

Or the time the line guy opened the bi-fold mx shop door to the SE hight before pulling the company 414 out. The sound of the empenage hitting the ground could be heard from the south hangar, about 1/8th a mile away.

Worst I ever did...we had to stack the south hanger in a big hurry, because there were severe storms rolling in. We had to get a 402, a Seneca, 2 Skyhawks, and a 182RG into a hangar that's much too small for all that. While shuffling things around, another line guy used the airhorse to pull a Skyhawk out, and park it on a grass hill next to the hangar entrance. When I went to push the plane back into the hangar, I figured, if it could make it down the hill it could make it back up with no problem. Turns out, it couldn't. At the top of the hill the elevator got caught under the concrete slab...bent the back four inches of the elevator about 90 degrees. Fun afternoon for me.
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I'm not sure who it was. This goes back to January of '06 when the HPN Beech crews did the afternoon flights. I was spraying the plane down when the captain went to open the cabin door and his feet got in the line of fire..........for unknown reasons there was a different captain on the later flight. :o
 
Last weekend, when requesting clearance from the tower to cross the runway in the fuel truck we may or may not have substituted "ice cream truck" for "fuel truck."
 
This picture was from a year ago, but it still makes me laugh.

I was walking to my car after an uneventful day of instructing and saw the nose of a jet past the top of a building. As I turned the corner, I couldn't help but laugh as I pieced together what had happened. Out of the shot is a fuel truck with a broken window and the kid sitting next to the Citation is crying...

Insurance claim? :rolleyes:
 

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SJM said:
Last weekend, when requesting clearance from the tower to cross the runway in the fuel truck we may or may not have substituted "ice cream truck" for "fuel truck."
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I love trying to be humorous on the radio whenever I have to talk to ground/tower. A favorite of mine is checking in with the current ATIS.
 
Well, i was new, and towing a plane, decided it was a good idea to back up. Well, snapped a hydralic piston on the gear....couple thousand dollars later, it was fixed. That lesson stuck with me though. I did it cause i was swamped with customers, and because i was new, didn't know to tell them that they might own their planes, but this was my ramp.
 
A certain linesman who will go unnamed decided it would be an awesome idea to tow a baron from the ramp to his hangar about 1/4 mile away having never towed anything before. After breaking the towpin off I went...er...this person went crying to his supervisor. The supervisor realized he was liable, so he covered it up. :banghead:
 
Forgot about one...

First time I fueled the inboard tanks on a Bonanza, I screwed the whole cap off apart because I wasn't paying attention and not really knowing what I was doing. I thought it was funny though how the guy just looked at me as an incompetant line person. I'll never forget that look.
 
one time i didnt use the safety bar on the tow bar... backed up a brand new 182 from the fuel pumps with the tug and some clown decided to put chocks on the plane (no one does that except for me~!!!) anywyas went to back up the 182 it didnt budge and the tug crunched the nose cover.. i had to go tell my boss and i took some heat lol
 
compilot65 said:
Tell everyone your stories, if you got some like these I've heard about over the years....

Ever seen a hangar door resting on a spinner? (Think Concorde look-alike.)

How about punching a hole in a new windshield of a JetRanger with a wingtip? (Need more ventilation?)

Reeling in a fuel hose still connected to a Citation X? (BOING!)

Hot fueling an R-22? (Buzz cut!)

De-icing a regional pilot who walked into the "line of fire"? (Got dry socks?)

What you got?
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Sure... You have just "heard" these over the years...I got one... DON'T TOUCH MY AIRPLANE!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA:nana2:
 
One morning after I fueled my own plane I tried to drive the truck away but it wouldn't go. It was in "D" the engine was running but it just wouldn't drive. So I got out and went to the control panel for the PTO and saw that the PTO switch was on so I flipped the switch off and much to my surprise the truck and it's 500 gallons of avgas drives away on its own almost running over my toes. I chased it down hopped in a put the brakes on.
 
I cant believe im the only one to actually catch a fuel truck on fire,oops,i guess putting fuel into the carb to get the engine running wasnt that smart!but at that time,it sounded like a good idea:buck:,ive seen other smart stuff like that too,some mechanic that came to work on the fuel truck,and:bandit::bandit:i couldnt convince him that it wasnt that good of idea to smoke will turning wrenches,oh well i evacuated quickly and left him alone after that!
 
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