What stupid stuff have you done?

Ok, so when I was a linemen I was tugging a Sabreliner into a hangar that we took care of and with all the maintenance guys walking around no one came over to help me move it in and I put a two inch gash just outboard of the left aileron (didn't mess up the aileron THANK GOD) and it was still a $30,000 fix. Gotta love those out of production aircraft.

On a side note the line manager was pretty good and getting those who have no idea about aviation with pranks.

He one time had a line guy hold up a bucket underneath the rotors of a Army UH-1 Huey. They said that he got everybody from the maintenance hangar and everybody from main office and opened up the hangar door to everybody laughing at him. They said that guy chased the boss for about 20 minutes before giving up, clocking out and going home. :nana2: Same guy also when on a test flight flew above 5,280 feet and he told him that he was apart of the MILE HIGH CLUB! Filled out a little card and told him to tell the owner of the FBO. That was great! He did so much, but ended up being really really mean any other time. Go figure.
 
This one is a legend around here. Last spring while topping off one of the Jet trucks our guy, lets call him Nevin, decides that he doesn't think the pre-check is working. So he climbs up on top to check the fuel level, opens the hatch, and leans over. That is when he says the company cell phone in his pocket fell out and settled to the bottom of 5000 gals of Jet-A. Since he didn't have a flashlight when help arrived we think he was actually using the light from the phone and dropped it. Just speculation though.

This is where it gets good. After the help he called stoped laughing they decided the easiest way to help him out is to just get rid of the evidence. So they start dialing the phone to blow it up. Of course this didn't work, but I guess the look on the guys face was priceless. In the end they used a long handled fishing net to retrieve it and we sumped and tested the heck out of the fuel.
 
Two simultaneous brain farts led us to a more embarrasing than stupid (but still stupid) moment..........TWO of us could not figure out why the single point would not hook up. So the conversation went something like this....
"DUDE, what kind of single point is this?

I don't know, never seen one like that before.

Yeah, I know, it's weird. Are we supposed to use a different head?

I don't know, I didn't know there were different ones.

Yeah. Me neither.....maybe it will fit, probably just need to spin it differently.

OK! Yeah, still not going.

Uhhhhh........

Wait....what is this blue s*!t?.......

No idea, not 100LL....

DAMNIT, IT'S THE CRAPPER!!!
 
njhubert said:
This one is a legend around here. Last spring while topping off one of the Jet trucks our guy, lets call him Nevin, decides that he doesn't think the pre-check is working. So he climbs up on top to check the fuel level, opens the hatch, and leans over. That is when he says the company cell phone in his pocket fell out and settled to the bottom of 5000 gals of Jet-A. Since he didn't have a flashlight when help arrived we think he was actually using the light from the phone and dropped it. Just speculation though.

This is where it gets good. After the help he called stoped laughing they decided the easiest way to help him out is to just get rid of the evidence. So they start dialing the phone to blow it up. Of course this didn't work, but I guess the look on the guys face was priceless. In the end they used a long handled fishing net to retrieve it and we sumped and tested the heck out of the fuel.
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Nevin?? Is this the same guy that backed the truck into the pole? and also has been to the state of Denver? And talks funny? And his grandfather fought in the Civil War? And the list goes on and on
 
braunpilot said:
On a side note the line manager was pretty good and getting those who have no idea about aviation with pranks.

He one time had a line guy hold up a bucket underneath the rotors of a Army UH-1 Huey. They said that he got everybody from the maintenance hangar and everybody from main office and opened up the hangar door to everybody laughing at him. They said that guy chased the boss for about 20 minutes before giving up, clocking out and going home. :nana2: Same guy also when on a test flight flew above 5,280 feet and he told him that he was apart of the MILE HIGH CLUB! Filled out a little card and told him to tell the owner of the FBO. That was great! He did so much, but ended up being really really mean any other time. Go figure.
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Those are awsome!
 
At the MRO I worked for, a crew was backing up a UPS MD-11 and ran the lower winglet into the elevator a Lear 45.

The vertical stab was twisted so bad that the Lear had to be disasembeled and put on a truck.
 
I was witness to a near catastrophe here on teh US ramp in PHX. Wing walking a A320 out of the gate, I was a/c left. (right after the evening ramp brief for wing walkers to NOT lose sight of the tail) so I'm doing my diligence and watching the tail / wingtip like a good little ramp rat, when I notice the wingtip spinnging rather sharply, I look at the pushtug, and the driver is well past the 90 degree line and has the big FMC tug about 12 inches from the spinning #1 engine. Guy on the right side gets push drivers attention and he stops the push, looks over his right shoulder and sees (IDK how he didn't hear) the spinning IAE 2500 / instant death machine 7 feet away.

Ramp sup. tried to get us all fired, asked me why I didn't stop the push, I referred him to the previously mentioned evening ramp brief, and the fact the push tug driver had was facing almost directly away from me once he had the front gear cocked about 130 degrees. End of story, pull the plane back to the gate, offload 150 pax, plane goes to hangar for some expensive repairs.

I'm sure I'll think of more...
 
Once dumped the lav on an Atlas 747 from Mexico City... it didn't occur to me that the guy who emptied the lav cart neglected to shut the dump valve.

Thankfully I had to stand on the cart itself to reach the lav panel and I remained out of the floods...:banghead:
 
Did donuts in a food beverage cart of course there was snow on the ground, Got pissed on by a broken lav hose, I peeled out in a baggage cart, crashed a tug into a baggage cart, broke a airplane fire extinguisher protector, and jackknifed baggage cart in front of passengers.

Rule of thumb don't allow 18 year old play with cool toys.
 
Lots.

The one that comes to mind is when I flipped a baggage cart. It just so happened to be the time when the GM was on the ramp and a lot of United execs were there because we were opening up a new terminal. Apparently the execs were peeved, so the GM decided to call me out in front of an all-employee meeting. It was all on camera. :banghead:.
 
my buddy worked the line and here are a few of his dumb things.

got kissed by a cessna

got shocked by lightning under a hawker and was unconscious for 2 hrs under the wing

moving a truck and was behind the runway as a jet was taking off and he was about to be blown away and tried stepping on the brakes but forgot it was air powered and the truck wasnt on so he was getting no brake power

didnt close up the fuel valve and spilled around 1,000,000 gallons of fuel on the ramp on a 110 degree day.
 
CN94559 said:
my buddy worked the line and here are a few of his dumb things.

got kissed by a cessna

got shocked by lightning under a hawker and was unconscious for 2 hrs under the wing

moving a truck and was behind the runway as a jet was taking off and he was about to be blown away and tried stepping on the brakes but forgot it was air powered and the truck wasnt on so he was getting no brake power

didnt close up the fuel valve and spilled around 1,000,000 gallons of fuel on the ramp on a 110 degree day.
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Erm... air brakes, hydraulic brakes, vacuum brakes... they are all designed to work sans engine power. And with air brakes, they actually a fail-safe design, e.g. engaged unless disengaged by air pressure.

And between you and me, I'd have a hard time believing it was 1,000 gallons, let alone 1,000,000 ;)
 
OhioStatePilot said:
Erm... air brakes, hydraulic brakes, vacuum brakes... they are all designed to work sans engine power. And with air brakes, they actually a fail-safe design, e.g. engaged unless disengaged by air pressure.

And between you and me, I'd have a hard time believing it was 1,000 gallons, let alone 1,000,000 ;)
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for one, they are his stories, two, I typed that late and put way too many 0's and as far as the brakes Im not quite sure what happened with them, but he showed me a video his buddy took of it and he couldn't get the brakes to work :laff:
 
CN94559 said:
for one, they are his stories, two, I typed that late and put way too many 0's and as far as the brakes Im not quite sure what happened with them, but he showed me a video his buddy took of it and he couldn't get the brakes to work :laff:
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Heh, I'm just bustin your balls on the gallons... confused on the brakes though!
 
I flipped a baggage cart in the tunnel to the bag room.
Took out the bumper of an ops vehicle with a cargo loader.
Several pallets and cans on the ground.
 
SIUav8er said:
Can everyone in here please list the names and locations of the FBO they work at?
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VATechPilot said:
Lots.

The one that comes to mind is when I flipped a baggage cart. It just so happened to be the time when the GM was on the ramp and a lot of United execs were there because we were opening up a new terminal. Apparently the execs were peeved, so the GM decided to call me out in front of an all-employee meeting. It was all on camera. :banghead:.
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KIAD^^
 
Pietrantonio said:
Some line guy at one of our other facilities got a prop strike in the head from an MU-2.
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I almost walked into an MU-2 prop about 19 years ago. Had just disconnected the power cart and started to walk forward between the fuselage and the engine nacelle, and was about to stick my arm forward to give the pilot the thumbs-up when I realized what I was doing and stopped dead in my tracks. Near as I can tell, the exhaust from the Garrett had me thinking "jet" instead of "prop" for some reason, and I had also gotten too comfortable walking through that space when fueling the inboard tanks.
 
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