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sri_bom
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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: Air China Plane Collapses on boarding |
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BEIJING, July 2, 2007 (AFP) - Five people were injured when the front of an Air China plane collapsed as passengers were boarding the aircraft at Beijing airport, state media said Monday.
The wheels of the plane, scheduled to fly to Dubai, were retracted while the jet was still at the boarding gate on Sunday afternoon, Xinhua news agency and other media outlets said, without explaining why.
Doctors at the airport said five people were treated for injuries, the Beijing Youth Daily reported, without giving any details.
Xinhua quoted the General Administration of Civil Aviation as saying one passenger and one crew member, both Chinese, were taken to hospital, although their injuries were described as "slight."
The aviation administration was carrying out an investigation into what caused the collapse, Xinhua added.
http://www.goalert24.com/readnews.aspx?id=884879&eid=36293206&sid=32&rid=82280&tid=57825
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shekar
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Birendra
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like another NLG MADE IN CHINA 
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SEANDSILVA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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What a thing to have happened. The passengers must have gotten a mild heart attack .  |
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HAWK21M
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Employees working on the Aircraft need to follow rules & Instructions well to avoid such senarios.
Totally unnecessary.
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SEANDSILVA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Even the bravest of the brave would freak out with such an occurence!!
Luckily this probably happens one in a billion flights.  |
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vivekman
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| SEANDSILVA wrote: | Even the bravest of the brave would freak out with such an occurence!!
Luckily this probably happens one in a billion flights. |
Isn't this the same thing that happened to an Air India A310 at DEL on April 9, 2007? The aircraft NLG retracted while it was being towed from the runway? |
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SEANDSILVA
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| vivekman wrote: | | SEANDSILVA wrote: | Even the bravest of the brave would freak out with such an occurence!!
Luckily this probably happens one in a billion flights. |
Isn't this the same thing that happened to an Air India A310 at DEL on April 9, 2007? The aircraft NLG retracted while it was being towed from the runway? |
Oh is that so? May have read about it, can't quite recollect though. But since u say it has happened to an AI A310 i stand corrected .  |
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D-ABTH
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another one?!!! i just DONT GET IT! WTF ARE THER IGNORANT ILLITERATE MORONS handling a/c in China? .. almost every 3 months an a/c has either tail tipped or nose dives while being turned around or loaded..
its really madness
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HAWK21M
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The AI A310 NLG collapsed as it was being towed,since the NLG was weakened following the Emergency.The Gear pins were not positioned & the Aircraft was towed.
In the Chinese NLG collapse,It seems someone has overridden the Landing gear lever,which is normally inoperative to the up position mechanically on Ground unless overridden.
If a test is being carried out the LG pins need to be positioned in all three gears.
The NLG is more suseptible because of the direction of retraction.
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