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Investigation under way after Ryanair plane rolls backwards and crashes into airport building, destroying tail

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A Ryanair plane has been left with £200,000 worth of damage to its rear stabiliser after it rolled backwards 40 metres crashing into an airport fire station. The force of the impact tore apart the 'tail wing' of the £72m Boeing 737, which could be written off as a result of the incident at Rome Ciampino Airport yesterday. The accident happened shortly after the aircraft, which has been grounded, landed and passengers had disembarked. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Mais...

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stevooz
steve rogers 6
they took the parking brake out as cost cutting measure , passengers that want brakes have to pay extra , ( read the fine print on your ticket ! )
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ColinSeftel
Colin Seftel 6
Perhaps Ciampino are copying Ryanair & chocks are extra!
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lahtiji
lahtiji 4
I'm sure Ryanair will find a way to charge passengers a fee for this, as well.
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209flyboy
209flyboy 6
It will be a 'tail wing' reconditioning fee and inspection charge which will be shared by all Ryan Air customers. A repainting fee and extra luggage space will be provided in the 'Tail Wing' and 40 new seats will be installed. Oh yes, the fire department building will need to be repaired too so there will be a charge for that too. If you noticed Ryan said that the plane will be returned to service soon (as soon as the glue dries and duct tape is applied.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 2
The plane should have been chocked, and may have been. Keep in mind that 737 parking break will only hold for approx 30 minutes reliably... They do not mention if the a/c was in windy conditions, or if jet blast could have moved the a/c. Jet blast from the right angle can cause an aircraft to maneuver away from chocks even if installed properly, but is a very rare occurrence. On the surface, sounds like a ground handling fault.
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Bernie20910
Bernie20910 2
Evidently the "break" worked perfectly. It broke, didn't it?
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sparkie624
sparkie624 3
Ugh...
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preacher1
preacher1 1
"Usually when a plane is parked stationary at an airport brakes are applied and chocks positioned against the wheels to prevent it rolling backwards or forwards." Apparently neither were done. On a line or 2 down in the story, it also says the area is slightly uphill. It rolled uphill? I would imagine the strike had a hand in no chocks, but not in the brake set. That would have been on the crew?
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 13
Due to global warming, the supply of gravity is also dissipating, hence the rolling uphill. See, everyone laughed at Al Gore...
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
I saw in your bio that you currently fly the 777 and the 75/76. Are you actually on a line that has you flying both types?
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
So you are one of the Guinea Pigs that maintenance uses to test a plane that they are not sure is really fixed or not... :)
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sparkie624
sparkie624 2
We try too...But sometimes, things are exactly what we expect.... I remember one in particular we had a stab trim issue where the plane would run out of trim... No matter what we did, we could not get it to pass a check flight... Finally we took 19 mechanics on a check flight... We would all run to the back of the plane, then to the front until we figured out what we needed.... That finally worked, and got it back in rig light it was supposed to do, but it had about 6 or 7 failed functional flights.
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
Don't tell me more about that spot on the seat... That is TMI....

CAT III Certs is easy... Just set it up an an approach, slide the seat back, grab a coke and pack of peanuts and enjoy the show...
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
If we get these planes too safe, then we won't need the NTSB any longer and that would mean more people on the unemployment line.

You wouldn't be the show.... That is the job of the plane.... Assuming we got it all taken care of in Mtc... :)

As for the coke at that price... You could handle a few cases... Who are you fooling. No Nuts... You can settle for the Pretzels or the Cookies...
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preacher1
preacher1 1
Yeah, regarding the price of the coke & pnuts, like you said, he can afford a case or 2. If I had his money, I'd burn mine. LOL
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sparkie624
sparkie624 1
LOL... Great analogy!
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Moviela
Ric Wernicke 1
To my way of thinking it would require more than a cosmic convergence to have rampers "forget" the chocks, AND the crew not apply the parking brake. I think the labor strife might be responsible for releasing the brake.
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sgbelverta
sharon bias 1
Ok, so the ground crew is on strike, the passengers are stacking up in the terminal, the plane had no chocks, the parking brake was not engaged, it managed to roll uphill, Ryanair's schedule is goofed up because a single plane is out of service, and they expect the damaged plane to be repaired shortly. There has got to be a Hollywood block buster somewhere in this mess.
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
This sounds like a new design 737. Reverse canard with a tail wing...
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TorstenHoff
Torsten Hoff 1
It's the 737neo.
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THRUSTT
THRUSTT 1
With a wing on the tail?
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ronlichtenstein
Ron Lichtenstein 1
Denta Airlines
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CaptainFreedom
CaptainFreedom -1
OK let's complete the shutdown checklist. Flaps Up...<sigh>check.....Speedbrake Lever....<huh? stop bugging me!>....ummm "down".....Parking Brake...."whatever....let's wrap this up. I'm hungry".....Shutdown Checklist Complete!
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