Fedex Icing Incident(s)
 

Rumor is that the little icing night in Memphis xmas night cost us a few fairly large aircraft parts. Anyone around that could verify/elaborate?

Landed the morning of the 26th and maint told me 3 planes got dinged by de-icing equip, one pretty significantly.

Ummm... let me guess, it was Bush's fault? :eek:

I heard replacement of an entire MD11 wing, and a nose gear.

Very first widebody of the night onto K pad had a right wing strike...unofficial, first hand, eye witness rumor told me so.

Yea, I heard about the wing, not the nose gear.

Saw them both..

First: busted hole in wing and had fuel spill. Saw this on bus going to gate.

Second: damaged slat. Saw it from gate and then they pulled it across from our gate to unload.

Didn't hear/see a third.

According to Maint bud, 1st was significant damage and 2nd wasn't that bad..

'Tis but a scratch.
A scratch? Your arms off!

If you are on property, go to aircraft damage photos on the AOD link. Pretty awful damage on the leading edge and on second aircraft's flap hit. I heard the nose gear on tail number three was a side loading issue and the trunions had to be fixed but no pictures to confirm.

I keep asking myself why? It just doesn't seem so hard to taxi in, get shot and taxi out. There must be some systemic issue we need figure out as a group. This kind of damage just makes me sad.