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What Is Wrong With This Picture?

KAUST From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 91 posts, RR: 27
Posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9679 times:

Please forgive my ignorance here, but what is wrong with the aicraft in this picture? (Also, as a newbie I might not be able to get the picture to show up correctly.)

See, I knew it wouldn't show up. I will just point to it then. It's the Air France CRJ in the "most popular" photos area. Says This "is what happens when you are taxiing behind and very close to an Iberia B747-400."

I cannot tell what is wrong.

KAUST

[Edited 2004-08-29 00:38:46]

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BoeingPride800 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 429 posts, RR: 2
Reply 1, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9516 times:

I know whats wrong with it. It's invisible, I can't see it

KAUST From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 91 posts, RR: 27
Reply 2, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9509 times:

Yeah yeah yeah....just don't say you haven't been warned haha.

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HansieAMS From Australia, joined Dec 2003, 129 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9488 times:

The windscreen is damaged... not sure if that is something likely to happen when ur behind a 74

Horus From Egypt, joined Feb 2004, 5230 posts, RR: 62
Reply 4, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9478 times:

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Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51
Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9444 times:

Most likely stirred up lose gravel on the runway and onto this plane in question. Same thing as when you drive behind a dump truck on the freeway and it loses a rock or two onto your car and cracks the windshield.

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Leelaw From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9424 times:

You mean this one?

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Espion007 From Denmark, joined Dec 2003, 1691 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 9381 times:

look at the Windows on the cockpit. Looks like some scratches on it from gravel

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Canarsie VOR From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 95 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 9188 times:

I think the windshield is cracked into pieces yet stayed nicely intact.

EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9286 posts, RR: 13
Reply 9, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 9144 times:

Well the pictures comment talks about taxing too close to a 747. My guess would be it cracked due to the heat from the exhaust.

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Skywestguy From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 16 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 8794 times:

Actually ive seen this happen before on one of skywest's Crj's, it was the windshield directly in front of the F/O. As I recall they said it just randomly started cracking inflight, I wonder how many times this has happened?

TupolevTu154 From UK - England, joined Aug 2004, 2119 posts, RR: 31
Reply 11, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 8774 times:

Probrably unlikely but...

Jetblast??

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EGGD From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 12426 posts, RR: 40
Reply 12, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 7972 times:

Just looks like its cracked in flight. I know this is not exactly a rare occurance, one of our resident pilots shared pictures from his recent experience of having the windshield shatter like this in flight. Apparently there is no real danger if it happens, and the aircraft can continue to fly normally until it has reached its destination where obviously it needs to be replaced.

Zortek From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 5 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 7576 times:

The windshield has started to delaminate. This can be caused by leaving the windshield heat on after landing but I have never heard of it happening while sitting behind a 747, but I guess that is possible.

L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29352 posts, RR: 62
Reply 14, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 7549 times:

It doesn't look like a rock hit from the outside, and I don't buy the explanation of engine heat from a 747....That CRJ would be airborne before the window would break.

Runaway window heat thermostat is my guess, not that I know a damm thing about CRJ's. But the local collage had a 747 window that was cracked for that reason.

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Cdfmxtech From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 1338 posts, RR: 29
Reply 15, posted (8 years 9 months 1 day ago) and read 6496 times:

That isn't delamination. One of the panes is cracked. Could be impact damage amongst other things, such as the window heat problem.

Baw716 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1995 posts, RR: 31
Reply 16, posted (8 years 9 months 19 hours ago) and read 4150 times:

Looks like the side windscreen is shattered. It is possible that they hit a hailstorm at high speed (and crosswind at that), which can make the windscreen shatter. However, this would have happened at an altitude in which decompression would not be a factor.

I have seen this on another post on a.net...I just have to find the picture. It was front shot of an aircraft that had its forward windscreen shatter due to hail on the nose.

One never knows...

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320tech From Turks and Caicos Islands, joined May 2004, 487 posts, RR: 5
Reply 17, posted (8 years 9 months 17 hours ago) and read 3427 times:

The windscreen has cracked. Normally this happens in flight, I doubt it happened because of following a 747 (possible, though, I suppose). In the Dash-8 we had this happen a lot. It was due to an accumulation of water in the frame under the window, which would freeze at altitude and crack the windscreen. We put in drains in the frame, and the cracking stopped.

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242 From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 498 posts, RR: 1
Reply 18, posted (8 years 9 months 17 hours ago) and read 3392 times:

It's your average windshield heat damage, not exhaust heat from another aircraft.

Yawn..... Very common. When you work line maintenance, you'll see damage like this every few weeks.

I doubt it was caused by any sort of impact.

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