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TonyWilliams 10-28-2008 12:07 PM

With this and the ASA disaster, I won't be surprised if SkW, Inc doesn't allow any non-pilot to touch a moving plane.

PhoenixFlood 10-28-2008 04:41 PM


Originally Posted by TonyWilliams (Post 487376)
With this and the ASA disaster, I won't be surprised if SkW, Inc doesn't allow any non-pilot to touch a moving plane.


I don't think having pilot's moving this airplane would've changed the outcome of this. Clearly someone wasn't paying attention and moving at a high rate of speed to cause that kind of damage.

Senior Skipper 10-28-2008 05:43 PM


Originally Posted by RuttR (Post 487332)
CRJ- 1
Truck-0

Not usually the case is it? I thought the plane would have been hurt more.

Boomer 10-28-2008 06:14 PM


Originally Posted by Airsupport (Post 487309)
i believe it happened on taxiway romeo

Yellow edge lines = Taxiway

White edge lines = Runway

I see white edge lines.

jaded 10-28-2008 06:30 PM


Originally Posted by RuttR (Post 487332)
CRJ- 1
Truck-0

more like:

Truck driver - workers comp
MX Guys - Fired

ExperimentalAB 10-28-2008 06:34 PM

From one of our ORD MX,

The truck was doing in excess of 50mph and failed to give way - the maintenance folks didn't see him in time. The impact was so rough it sent the right-seater halfway into the left-seat, hitting the TL's on the way...

It was very dark too...

ExperimentalAB 10-28-2008 06:35 PM


Originally Posted by TonyWilliams (Post 487376)
With this and the ASA disaster, I won't be surprised if SkW, Inc doesn't allow any non-pilot to touch a moving plane.

Greaaaaat. More 12-minute Repo's :rolleyes:

flyandive 10-28-2008 07:20 PM


Originally Posted by ExperimentalAB (Post 487730)
Greaaaaat. More 12-minute Repo's :rolleyes:

LOL, I'm glad to know we are not the only ones to get a measly .2 for taxi, even if it takes all day!

Cycle Pilot 10-28-2008 08:58 PM

Gotta watch out for those airport ops vehicles. I'm more afraid of being hit by them than other vehicle traffic. I've seen those guys drive around SFO, LAX, and ORD like they were on a race course! The scariest time I ever had in an airplane was at LAX when one of those idiots almost hit me as I was making a turn while repositioning an airplane. They missed me by a couple of feet and weren't even using the vehicle lanes! I had to slam on the brakes so hard that if my FA was up, she would have definitely been hurt. It was just a matter of time. Thank God nobody was killed.

CRJ1000 10-28-2008 09:01 PM

Looks pretty bad...
Notice the windshield wipers on the CRJ...
Do you think it was because they were in use when it happened or moved that much from the impact?
Anyone know what the WX was at the time?


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