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Engineer Injured At MAN  
User currently offlineCainanuk From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2002, 548 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1541 times:

An engineer was injured very seriously today at MAN. He was changing a nose wheel on a LH CRJ200 when it blew. Apparently he has unfortunately lost an arm and a foot. Let's all keep this fellow in our prayers this evening as at last word, he is still in hospital in a really bad way.


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User currently offlineCharlienorth From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 1077 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (4 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1453 times:

Damn that's tough to hear,we tend to be cautious in deflating main tires but get complacent on the nose tires forgetting they also can be around 200psi. Best thoughts are with him and I hope all of us techs can see ourselves in this spot.

User currently offlineChapavaeaa From United States of America, joined Aug 2008, 144 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 1360 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

I'm sorry to hear this...but I do know of a couple of instances of this occuring. One on a small regional commutor resulted in the mechanic having his arm shattered with a dozen or so breaks. It sent a part of the rim through the ceiling of the hangar and about 150 feet away as I recall. Everyone in the hangar complex heard it and picked up the phone at once to find out what had happened. It crashed the phone system and it could not be restarted to call 911. People wound up driving a 1/4 mile down the street to call emergency services.

Charlienorth is correct. Deflate first. The mechanic in my story got lucky...kept his arm and recovered from what I recall...but it was a long long road to recovery.

User currently offlineLHR777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (4 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1317 times:

Poor fellow, I hope he's on the mend now and recovers from his injuries.

I was actually thinking about this a couple of days ago, as I was watching a 777-200ER main gear tyre change. I was standing quite close to the main gear, and wondered what would happen if the tyre should explode.

[Edited 2008-11-13 16:37:59]

User currently offlineMyt332 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 9112 posts, RR: 74
Reply 4, posted (4 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1162 times:



Quoting LHR777 (Reply 3):
I was actually thinking about this a couple of days ago, as I was watching a 777-200ER main gear tyre change. I was standing quite close to the main gear, and wondered what would happen if the tyre should explode.

I too was wondering the same thing the other day when I was sitting on a tyre of one of the Concorde's. I guessed I'd end up on the hangar roof....


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