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PAL 744 With Missing Winglet At SFO Today  
User currently offlineSFOintern From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 770 posts, RR: 5
Posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1206 times:

Anyone else have any information? I wish I coulda snagged a pic...

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    User currently offlinePUnmuth@VIE From Austria, joined Aug 2000, 4161 posts, RR: 56
    Reply 1, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1160 times:    		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

    Dumb question by me. may be it was a 747-300?
    Peter


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    User currently offlineHkgspotter1 From Hong Kong, joined Nov 2005, 0 posts, RR: 1
    Reply 2, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1143 times:

    Well if it was one of the -200's then he's a real bad plane spotter !!!

    Serious, did you get the reg ?

    User currently offlineA330300 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 172 posts, RR: 0
    Reply 3, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1119 times:

    744s can fly just fine without winglets.

    User currently offlineBig777jet From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
    Reply 4, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1107 times:

    Did you catch reg number tail?

    Big777jet



    User currently offlineImkeww From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
    Reply 5, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1085 times:

    Nope, not a 747-300...

    It was a clear accident, there were wires (?) hanging out the starboard wing-end... port wing still had it.

    Didn't catch the reg, but seeing as PAL has only 4 744s, and only 1 of them is at SFO on any given day, shouldn't be too hard to sleuth out.

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    • User currently offlineImkeww From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
    Reply 6, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1079 times:

    - couldn't catch the reg as I was driving and late to work!

    User currently offlineRyu2 From Taiwan, joined Aug 2002, 460 posts, RR: 0
    Reply 7, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1077 times:

    PAL only flies the 744 and a340 to SFO, no 742s or 743s.

    User currently offlineHkgspotter1 From Hong Kong, joined Nov 2005, 0 posts, RR: 1
    Reply 8, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1066 times:

    We are joking about the -200 / -300 !!

    User currently offlineSuperfly From Thailand, joined May 2000, 38485 posts, RR: 80
    Reply 9, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1052 times:

    I didn't take it!


    Bring back the Concorde
    User currently offlineTR From UK - England, joined May 2001, 952 posts, RR: 0
    Reply 10, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 1046 times:

    Actually 747-400 do operate with one winglet from time to time. Just look at the pics:


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    I flew HKG-LHR in October on a CX 744 without the left winglet.

    Regards
    Thomas

    User currently offlineBkkair From Thailand, joined Aug 2001, 408 posts, RR: 0
    Reply 11, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days ago) and read 1025 times:

    SFOintern- PR only operate the 744 We/Fr/Su arriving in SFO at 1815 and leaving the same day at 2120.
    ( Only on the ground 3 hours )
    If you saw it on a Thursday maybe there was a technical reason that the plane never left on Wednesday night???

    User currently offlineSailorOrion From Germany, joined Feb 2001, 2058 posts, RR: 6
    Reply 12, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days ago) and read 1022 times:

    If you check older threads in this forum and the tech / ops forum, you'll find out that the one-missing-winglet-on-B744 topic has been discussed about 10 times last year.  Smile

    SailorOrion

    User currently offlineSFOintern From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 770 posts, RR: 5
    Reply 13, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days ago) and read 1029 times:

    Bkkair... There you go...

    Unlike the pics in the database, the wing-end I saw looked battered...

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    • User currently offlineMr.BA From Singapore, joined Sep 2000, 3423 posts, RR: 23
    Reply 14, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days ago) and read 1008 times:

    Battered? Does it look damage having wires poking out or so? Did the plane leave on time and arrive on time? Maybe these will shed some light.

    alvin


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