Hey Maint - Wheels chocked and brake set?

[GLMS_NC]

Someone forgot to check.

Not cheap to repair.

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/plane-rolls-through-fence-at-henderson-executive-airport/771563769

 

[Fearless Tower]

It's Net Jets....Warren Buffet can just buy a new one.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

A) How is this news? Driving a car through a fence barely gets the cops to show up, much less a reporter.
B) What difference would it have made if someone had drawn the outline of the airplane on the ramp with chalk?

 

[jim.nelson]

But it's a really good thing that, "the plane did not roll off the runway."

 

[Clark1961]

A) How is this news? Driving a car through a fence barely gets the cops to show up, much less a reporter.
B) What difference would it have made if someone had drawn the outline of the airplane on the ramp with chalk?

Drive a multimillion dollar car through a fence and see if it makes the news. Looks like the two cranes needed for the recovery sorta drew some attention to the site also.

 

[GLMS_NC]

Isn't maint 101 to secure your airplane before you start engine work? Knowing it requires an engine run test should require a double check.

Could have been so much worse.

$23M aircraft, and Buffet owned. That is what makes news.

 

[EppyGA]

but they didn't set the brakes or chalk it

Found the problem

 

[Pilawt]

They sure got that registration mark covered up quickly.

 

[Kevin16587]

A) How is this news? Driving a car through a fence barely gets the cops to show up, much less a reporter.
B) What difference would it have made if someone had drawn the outline of the airplane on the ramp with chalk?

Because cars run through fences everyday and there is nothing sensational about it.


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[SkyDog58]

But it's a really good thing that, "the plane did not roll off the runway."

Yeah, that statement was really out of place and made no sense. Of course the use of chalk rather than chock was pure idiocy.

 

[Pilawt]

Of course everybody (especially "journalists") knows there are only two parts of an airport outside the terminal: (1) Runway and (2) Tarmac. Don't you know anything about aviation???

 

[wsuffa]

They didn't "chaulk" it... Once upon a time, editors could spell.

 

[overdrive148]

Recently in the line service world:

 

[CMongoose]

Do the planes actually "belong" to NetJets? I thought they were all fractional ownership?

 

[Zeldman]

A) How is this news? Driving a car through a fence barely gets the cops to show up, much less a reporter.
B) What difference would it have made if someone had drawn the outline of the airplane on the ramp with chalk?

You are right. Cars drive through a fence, no news there. But this plane "crashed" through the fence. It's all about the details.....

 

[denverpilot]

Recently in the line service world:

I am amazed that thing didn't jump the chock and squish that dude like a bug.

 

[donjohnston]

The reporter missed the most important fact:

No flight plan was filed!

 

[flyingron]

Note that the first thing they did is tape paper over the N-number. I suspect that while Netjets handles the plane, it's fractionally owned by four private entities.

Of course, there's always this one:

 

[Ravioli]

I KNOW if @overdrive148 was there for his 6 month anniversary that plane would have been chocked, maybe chalked, but definitely not chaulked!

 

[overdrive148]

I am amazed that thing didn't jump the chock and squish that dude like a bug.

I am continually surprised how good chocks are at holding aircraft in place. Nose down on an incline with even one chock and the whole jet just sits there happily. Of course I put 2 because Murphy isn't nice. Especially with a fuel truck parked in front.

 

[GlennAB1]

Chalk that one up to ________.