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General Aviation and you
- Thread starter twinjet
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Very interesting occurrence at work a few days ago. Slick ramp. Windy day. Wind blows plane over a few inches and suffers scratch trauma from nearby belt loader. Plane had moved about a foot.
Funny story, but not anyone's doing but nature's.
Dang! That stinks.
Not too long ago we had the belt loader back away and ding our engine cowl. Despite shaking the plane pretty good there was only a tiny scratch. On a side note I'd be interested to know what repercussions exist for the guy who was operating the belt loader...
Probably a write-up. In my experience, employers are fairly forgiving if you're upfront about things.
Were you flying the aircraft?
The 757 incident happened at another company's hangar but you can be sure we went over there to have a look at it. The end of the right wing got crunched up pretty good and it put a big hole in the hangar. Took them a couple of months to get the aircraft flyable again. You can bet that they don't leave aircraft broadside to the wind any more.
The wind damage was in one of the hangars owned by the company I work for. The storm that damaged it had winds exceeding 100MPH. We're only allowed in there when the wind is less than 50kph now. The storm did a lot of damage all over. I'd say it knocked down half the traffic lights in town and it knocked power out for days in some places.
I can see that. It probably depends on the amount of damage as well.
Yeah I was on the flight crew
