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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 11:04:57 GMT -5
Well not exactly since it was still on two wheels, but this is hilarious. It was transporting the University of Southern California football team to Washington State, and this was at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport, which has mostly regional jets. They either didn't have or forgot to prop it up with a tail stand. simpleflying.com/united-737-900-tipped/
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 21, 2021 11:25:27 GMT -5
c.g. screwup
Tends to happen a lot more with tail-mounted engines. They must have really messed up to get a 737 to do that.
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Post by AmeriCanvbdad on Sept 21, 2021 11:25:50 GMT -5
Well not exactly since it was still on two wheels, but this is hilarious. It was transporting the University of Southern California football team to Washington State, and this was at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport, which has mostly regional jets. They either didn't have or forgot to prop it up with a tail stand. simpleflying.com/united-737-900-tipped/And here I thought it was because they seated the whole team at the rear of the plane. You have to evenly distribute the weight!
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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 15:00:10 GMT -5
I think part of the speculation is that the biggest players (i.e. the linemen) must have been in the back. Obviously the front passengers left first, and this photo shows the baggage has already been offloaded.
I'm wondering what happened to the peopl getting off the air stairs as it started lifting. Anyone right there at the interface has a split second to make a decision.
Also - interesting that they landed in Lewiston, which is maybe 35 miles from Pullman. I suppose it was cheaper than Pullman-Moscow Airport, and they have to pay for buses anyways.
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 21, 2021 15:11:38 GMT -5
Pullman-Moscow actually has a longer runway than Lewiston, so I don't know why they went there.
I also don't know if anyone was on the plane. What you see could be just the result of a bunch of heavy gear in the rear cargo hold and idiots who pulled everything out of the front cargo hold first. I'm not going to look up the weight-and-balance manual for the 737-900 though.
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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 15:28:42 GMT -5
Pullman-Moscow actually has a longer runway than Lewiston, so I don't know why they went there. I also don't know if anyone was on the plane. What you see could be just the result of a bunch of heavy gear in the rear cargo hold and idiots who pulled everything out of the front cargo hold first. I'm not going to look up the weight-and-balance manual for the 737-900 though. Don't all 737s get delivered in Renton? But I suppose they're all going to be lightly loaded for that. I've flown out of Orange County Airport. Now that's an adventure.
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 21, 2021 15:55:05 GMT -5
Pullman-Moscow actually has a longer runway than Lewiston, so I don't know why they went there. I also don't know if anyone was on the plane. What you see could be just the result of a bunch of heavy gear in the rear cargo hold and idiots who pulled everything out of the front cargo hold first. I'm not going to look up the weight-and-balance manual for the 737-900 though. Don't all 737s get delivered in Renton? But I suppose they're all going to be lightly loaded for that. I've flown out of Orange County Airport. Now that's an adventure. They get built in Renton, so they all take off from there -- once. They hardly ever get landed in Renton. I was actually on a 737-900 that landed in Renton, but it was a special case. That was the day of the Nisqually earthquake, and Boeing Field was closed. SeaTac was also closed. Renton was our only option if we didn't want to spend the night at Moses Lake (and with no likelihood that either BFI or SEA would be open the next day, either).
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 21, 2021 15:56:41 GMT -5
I've flown out of Orange County Airport. Now that's an adventure. I know the people who designed that takeoff procedure. The person most responsible is retired now.
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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 19:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 21, 2021 19:34:48 GMT -5
I think all flights in controlled airspace have to have a flight number, so yeah, charter flights like this have flight numbers. ATC has to have some way to call you up when they want to talk to you.
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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 19:51:16 GMT -5
I think all flights in controlled airspace have to have a flight number, so yeah, charter flights like this have flight numbers. ATC has to have some way to call you up when they want to talk to you. Well - I guess the best known flight number is Air Force 1. I wonder if an aircraft is recognized as that when flying to other countries. In Die Hard 2 the flight number flying the dictator to the United States was FM 1 for "foreign military". I guess a flight could get a temporary flight number as long as it doesn't coincide with another one.
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Post by BearClause on Sept 21, 2021 21:39:39 GMT -5
And to think all they needed was one of these:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 12:01:33 GMT -5
"Hi everybody, this is your pilot, Captain Knievel...."
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Post by tomclen on Sept 22, 2021 14:14:04 GMT -5
Would like to know how hard the fuselage hit the pavement. That could be a costly repair.
Is there a standard procedure that maintenance crews follow to handle this problem and get the craft back in it's correct position?
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 22, 2021 14:42:42 GMT -5
Is there a standard procedure that maintenance crews follow to handle this problem and get the craft back in it's correct position?
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