Qantas744ER From United States, joined Jun 2005, 1119 posts, RR: 5 Posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 28677 times:
This LH 346 was damaged yesterday in FRA due to a catering truck falling onto the back of its right wing. This was only one of many incidents in Germany in the past two days because how high winds.
two small pics:
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Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 3273 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 28047 times:
And the high winds were not even half as bad here as they were in northern Germany.....
I was boarding an LH 735 yesterday morning which was parked on a remote stand, at about 07:30 am. The bus driver had just opened the doorr when the storm came. I was soaking wet on my right side in seconds. You could feel the plane shaking and I saw one in boind flight gpoing around. . Might have happened around that time yesterday.
Kole Feut un' 'nen steiffen Wind gifft 'nen krusen Buedel un' 'nen luetten Pint
CFMitch56 From United States, joined Dec 2007, 79 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 27326 times:
Any ground crew folks out there...
Are there situations when the weather is so bad that you need to load catering supplies by some other means because of truck/wind issues like this one--like through the jetbridge at airports that have them, or through the cargo hold (if that's even possible on most a/c)? Or do winds that bad delay the flight so it wouldn't matter?
LHRBlueSkies From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2007, 424 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 24338 times:
Quoting CFMitch56 (Reply 7): Are there situations when the weather is so bad that you need to load catering supplies by some other means because of truck/wind issues like this one--like through the jetbridge at airports that have them,
Yup, every piece of ground equipment has (should have) maximum wind operating restrictions... guess in this case either the weather caught them by surprise, or they weren't following laid down prcedures!?
flying is the safest form of transport - until humans get involved!
Jmc1975 From United States, joined Sep 2000, 2945 posts, RR: 23 Reply 25, posted (1 year 4 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 19686 times:
Does anybody work for LH who may have a tail number?
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26 PanHAM: If that was arounf 07:30 am on Saturdy it came by surprise. The driver might not even had the chance to lower the truck. There was a black cloud appr
27 44k: Amazing! If pax complain when flights get delayed/canceled due to weahter, they need to see this video! I am suprised they operated flights during th
28 CptRegionalJet: Actually,WX report had a stormwarnig with an approaching Squalline in it on Saturday morning. We were parked 4 Stands away from the 346 when the Squa
29 EK413: What is the storm warning radius in Germany, Im not sure if the standards are world wide or not but in Australia a storm 5 km radius everyone on the
30 Montereytom: Kudos to the pilot!!He had barely touched down when the wind almost blew him over,he applied full power and saved the a/c and pax, that was just grea
31 CptRegionalJet: I don't have a ground handling manual,but I belive it's the same here.No fueling and catering during Thunderstorm and heavy wind.
32 DABZF: I believe it was D-AIHE on it's way to CPT.
34 GeorgeJetson: Somehow, I think it's going to cost a lot more to fix the flaps on that A346 than fixing that truck! The good news is that this A340-600 is far from
35 LHRBlueSkies: If there was a storm warning, then maybe there was also an instruction to all companies to secure loose equipment etc (as happens at LHR), in which c
36 PanHAM: leaves at 2250 . It's dark here by the time they cater that aircraft.
37 DABZF: ... very true... however the a/c had been at FRA the whole day after arrived from CPT earlier that day. LH576 was over 9 hours delayed that day... th
38 Landingshortly: Aw, that poor baby. It literally breaks my heart seeing this! Flo (landingshortly/VIE)
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