It's called underpayed/underqualified workers that operate heavy machinery around multi-million dollar aircraft in bad weather.

While I agree that we are underpaid, I don't agree that we are under qualified! :)

Umm, I think he meant the deice folks on the cherry pickers.

Ya think? :)

You forgot in the middle of the night.

There are plenty of photos of the damaged airplanes on the intranet (home.fedex.com) and one of the side menus. One of the MX links is damaged aircraft. The wing incident was significant.

They taxied the plane into a deice truck (crew following marshaller) and the boom went into the wing about 2-3 feet.

The other two are also true. Only photos though are of the flap/slat damage from the rear.

You got to wonder if the early retirement deal caused a brain drain.....

I have several thoughts ...

In the old days (does that make me an old guy?) we were deiced by Aircraft Maintenance. Like everything around this place, maintenance has now been replaced by cheaper alternatives. How much damage does it take before the cost savings is no longer worth it (aircraft damage, late freight, personnel injuries)?

It bothered me when we were doing deice training when it was 80 degrees outside (we were spraying water on outbound flights making them late at their destinations?). Something just didn't seem "right."

I can remember (maybe 10 years ago?) admiring what a great job they did deicing in IND. A few years later I noticed it wasn't as good. I wondered if they were making MEM look bad and if they sent a MEM manager up there to "fix" it?

There are locations in the world where the aircraft taxis through a permanent structure "car wash" to get deiced and it's not possible to damage an aircraft. Maybe that's the answer?

MM

Things that make you go hmmmmm .... :eek:

This is why I got squirted in the gate before pushing back the other afternoon! ;)

Ewww...Gross!!! Way, way TMI.