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Ground vehicle hits nose of American MD80 at BWI
An American Airlines official says a tow vehicle on the ground hit the nose of a parked jet at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (www.seattlepi.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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Geez... Slow news day... Why is this even in the news.... We had a fuel truck to back into the wing, Warped the wing spar and bounced the plane about 5 feet and even punctured the fuel truck and that never made the news... this is just bad reporting, and never should have been in the news in the first place.
"The first cockpit crew communication to ATC (Ground Control) concerned getting help for the tug driver, concern for the person's safety."
"The female driver of the truck was taken to the hospital for knee pain and released."
-- I imagined the pilot to be the proverbial piloy - a guy - but considered the possibility the pilot was a woman after the report of concern for the driver of the vehicle. But imagining the tow vehicle driver as a hot headed driver, I was thinking the driver to be a guy.
-- Reality surprised me.
" 'Something didn’t work as intended and the push-back tractor struck the landing gear,' American Airlines spokesman."
-- You don't say? What was the first clue?
"The female driver of the truck was taken to the hospital for knee pain and released."
-- I imagined the pilot to be the proverbial piloy - a guy - but considered the possibility the pilot was a woman after the report of concern for the driver of the vehicle. But imagining the tow vehicle driver as a hot headed driver, I was thinking the driver to be a guy.
-- Reality surprised me.
" 'Something didn’t work as intended and the push-back tractor struck the landing gear,' American Airlines spokesman."
-- You don't say? What was the first clue?
The first cockpit crew communication to ATC (Ground Control) concerned getting help for the tug driver, concern for the person's safety. The cockpit crew had not requested pushback, so I don't think the tug/towbar/aircraft connection had ever been made. Tug seemed to just run into the plane, unless the tow bar kicked to the side when they were trying to connect the tug to it.
N499AA shows a delivery date of 9/89, so that doesn't help its chances for returning to service. The ex-TWA MD-80s are the newest in American's fleet delivered up to about 2000. If it's any structural damage beyond just replacing the radome, I'd say it's bye-bye. Nose gear looks like it got twisted, maybe by the tug hitting the tow bar and kicking it around. Damage to it?
R/R radome. A lot of revenue loss but cost could go up even more if electronics destroyed. My bet is back in service within 3 days if AA can get a radome delivered. But for AA, the entire DC area is an after thought for the boys at DFW.