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Maintenance Mishap Damages Emirates A380
A maintenance mishap has left an Emirates Airbus A380-800 with serious damage to its nose and surrounding structure. The aircraft, registered A6-EOP, was undergoing a routine maintenance check when the aircraft collapsed onto its nose. Occurring at an Emirates maintenance hangar at Dubai International Airport, the accident has left the aircraft with a torn/crumpled fuselage and structural damage. (samchui.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
OMG .......Heads will roll !!!
I feel bad for those guys.
I had my share of screwups in the trucking industry years ago ... but none of that was never broadcast on the WWW for all the world to see!!
I had my share of screwups in the trucking industry years ago ... but none of that was never broadcast on the WWW for all the world to see!!
HTH do you "retract nose gear" when you are not moving? Someone decide to bypass the "loaded weight stationary sensors" ???
Just pull the nose pin and then push the gear up leaver up. Its actually easier then you think. Just remember to brace for impact lol.
Except 380's are suppose to have a redundancy system that won't allow this type of mishap.
I have a feeling it was on jacks, they "bypassed" the failsafe, pulled the pin, started to retract the gear and jackstands failed..like you said, brace for impact...a huge impact.
I have a feeling it was on jacks, they "bypassed" the failsafe, pulled the pin, started to retract the gear and jackstands failed..like you said, brace for impact...a huge impact.
Everything fails. I went to look at the photos again and it looks like L1 door is missing.. Also from what i can see the radar is broken and in the bottom of the nose cone. And it was on a Jack from what i heard. It slipped and i have a feeling the nose gear was retracted at the time because i heard that it was jammed the gear assembly upwards. Sounds to me like they were trying to replace the nose gear for some reason or they were trying to get a weight on the aircraft and it fell.
That's what made me think they were in retract mode. I see all sorts of damage, missing door, but no stands. Not even the legs showing where gear should have been. It's on stands, gear is going to retract, stands kick off sideways and the whole nose section crashes down, jamming the gear upward, busting all it could while falling.
No the nose gear was retracted. If you look at the maintence catwalk you can see the nose pushed into it and had the nose gear been down the plane should have rolled back some. Thats of course is my opinion. You can see something under it like the foot of the stand if you look between the static port and pitot tubes look down.
Yes I saw the catwalk shot.if they were in retracting mode (weight no longer on gear and gear coming into aircraft, the stands (not locked in properly) would kick out feet first towards the side careening the aircraft on a forward trajectory smashing into the catwalk.(also indicating they forgot wheel chocks or not enough chocks). If it just dropped off the stands/jack, yes they would jam up in the nose gear, but the radar dome should be cleaned off almost completely as it would drop straight down, not on a forward trajectory.
Or it could be as you stated and when it came down, it pushed the catwalk backwards some. Time and investigation will tell.
Or it could be as you stated and when it came down, it pushed the catwalk backwards some. Time and investigation will tell.