Ntspelich From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 764 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 4425 times:
Now that's a crane!
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United 717 heavy, you're facing the wrong way. Any chance you can powerback to get off of my deice pad?
Meister808 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 972 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 4317 times:
Ok, so how did the tail get broken off?
-Meister
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Rthrbeflying86 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 243 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 4308 times:
The tail was removed shortly after the crash so it wouldn't interfere with traffic.
Captain_777 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 295 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 4265 times:
Imangine landing or taking off in HGK and seeing a 747 just sitting there in the water. What would be going through your mind??
MD11LuxuryLinr From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1385 posts, RR: 16 Reply 7, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 4180 times:
What makes it more of a waste is that, if I remember correctly, the 744 was only a few months old..
Caution wake turbulence, you are following a heavy jet.
LanPeru From Peru, joined Jun 2001, 634 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 4037 times:
Man, imagine being in that back of that plane and seeing that all of a sudden your window is under water? Must have been pretty freaky...I assume there were no fatalities?
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 10, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 3648 times:
When is CI going to learn they have bad luck with tropical storms/typhoons??
CPH-R From Denmark, joined May 2001, 5755 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 3503 times:
United Airline,
the problem was that the body of the aircraft had been in the saltwater for quite a while - meaning that most of the panels would have to be replaced to avoid corrosion.
Cx flyboy From Hong Kong, joined Dec 1999, 6364 posts, RR: 56 Reply 12, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 3476 times:
The aircraft was only 5 months old, and could have been salvageable at a cost. Problem was the amount of time that it had spend in the water, and the fact that a very large part of the aircraft had been submerged, unlike the Air France 744 that partially went for a dip. The China Airlines had completely gone out to sea, and was nudged back towards the runway by a tug boat that happened to be near. This is why the aircraft is seen with it's nose to the runway.
The question of salvageability was answered when the tail was blown off to remove it from obstructing departing aircraft. I can't remember what happened exactly, but I believe they landed far down the runway, and accidentally deactivated the autobrakes at high speed. By the time they realised, it was too late and swimming they went!
Laddb From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 191 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 3418 times:
Those barge cranes have multiple ballast tanks. They just fill a ballast tank at the opposite end of the load and they can balance the load that way so the barge does not tip over. This one still looks like the bow is down a bit.
There are no anchors. It looks to me like she is underway. Notice the wake and the tug along the side and one out front.
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