made by yours truly after the incident that happened earlier today
made by yours truly after the incident that happened earlier today
Got any grapes?
Seeing how slow in comparison the person in the stairs moved, I'm pretty sure he wasn't waddling.
i did have to speed up the video by about 4x, this is the original clip: https://youtu.be/q3pv7mSwYmQ
I wonder at what point repairs would be satisfactory for engineers to declare it usable again. Would it need to go on an empty test flight exactly along its normal path to be declared "safe enough?" What's the minimum incurred damage at which a plane would be considered totaled?
There are ways to non-destructively test for cracks and voids in various structural elements. Planes already go through very stringent inspection and maintenance cycles so various physical factors will already have a well-established baseline to compare to.
Some speculation; the damage may be far less than you'd think. Aircraft are (generally) designed to fail gracefully and the front landing gear is a mechanism that sees a lot of force during landing. I can't tell if the assembly folds back into the landing gear bay or if it penetrates the fuselage without collapsing.
A whole sack of shit went wrong if the fuselage fell directly onto the gear assembly but if the landing gear "simply" folded back into the bay it could be a relatively easy repair. Airframe loading is extremely well-characterized and engineers are already running the numbers on what forces went where.
All that said; fuck McDonnell-Douglas. Boeing "acquired" them back in the 90s. Somehow the MDD board of directors (comprised of businessmen) took over leadership roles formerly held by people with engineering backgrounds. A lot of the failures and poor reputation Boeing has suffered in the past few decades are very likely related to that leadership change.
Judging from pictures it does appear to retract forward. Makes sense to me considering the forces the landing gear would experience. If the hydraulic deployment mechanism were to fail midair you can still manually deploy it from the cockpit and it will fall and lock into place.
"totaled" has a technical definition: it's assessed more expensive to repair than to replace. That will include the cost of all the testing.
I have no idea what this will have damaged. Aircraft can be put back into service after some pretty serious damage, but you make a good point that tests on the structure of an aircraft are done on a new one, so you can't just do a single test and job done to get the same level of confidence that everything's ok - if something were weakened, it wouldn't be clear when it might fail.
The front fell off. That's not supposed to happen.
Chance in a million!
I imagine they had to tow it out of the environment
The front wheel
When I was young, I managed a tire shop for a time, and I heard that phrase from the service department, unironically, every day.
Why plane sad?
I love the engineer just jumping back then going "nope" and walking off the site.
"MOOOOOOOM!"
Holy shit, I think the person in the back might've been closer to getting crushed
Used to be three tired, now it's just too tired
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I don't even have to ask if it's a Boeing, do I?
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