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The aircraft was in one of the standoff bays when I arrived in Melbourne on Saturday morning, it is still in the same place today, tug attached, as I wait for my flight back to Sydney.
Guess they will have to work out were to put it for a much longer stay than normal.
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Aircraft was parked down at G6 (freight ramp) from early Saturday Morning.
I think you saw the other EK flight at the stand off bay Grahame. ERG this morning was parked inside one of the John Holland hangers this morning, nose facing out, with hanger doors 3/4 closed. Now it is parked outside, down the southern end of the hangers, facing south. |
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Was outside facing south this afternoon.It had a security guard sitting right underneath where the damage was.
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Cheers, I feel better now. |
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No worries, that's what it's all about!
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There's talk of an engine failure as well, just before the tail scrap. So I'm waiting for a few answers. |
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From another source: It hit the runway end lights and the localizer antenna past the end of runway 16 and several access panels were ripped off during the tailstrike, the landing reportedly caused additional damage to the gear.
In daylight Saturday morning it was established, that the airplane was still on the ground when it passed the runway end during takeoff, according gear tracks were found in the soft ground past the runway end. Very close to a MAJOR disaster!! |
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Hasn't been a real good 2 or 3 days for aviantion has it? Am also very very surpriosed by the lack of media interest in this, I had no idea about it until logging on today. I'll refrain from saying anything else but I think were are all probably having similar thoughts about the interest this would of caused had this been another airline involved?
Anyway, what I am really interested about is the use of a "Maltese Cross" as mentioned on the PPrune forum. What is it and what is it used for? Main reason for being interested is that I am Maltese and have a Maltese cross tattooed on my back :-) Have never come across it from a aviation point of veiw though! Cheers M |
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It seems there was no opportunity for a RTO at that late stage, the end of the runway would have been so close by the time the decision was required they have would have been foced to take-off regardless of what had failed or otherwise or they would have ended up as a smouldering wreck.
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Mark,
The "Maltese Cross" is an indication on the flight instruments called a Sidestick order indicator. This is an abstract from the Joburg incident they talk about on PPRUNE which explains it a little. Quote:
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